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* Kazakhs in talks to develop oil pipeline
to Iran
* Iran backs off free trade zones
* Conoco sees quick change in Iran sanctions policy
* Lifting of US oil sanctions against Iran "inevitable":
Iran
* Caviar production drops as poaching and pollution rise
* Oil production falls at key oil field
* Iran begins exporting doctors to Persian Gulf countries
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December 8, 2000
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Thursday
December 7, 2000
Iran Air plans to buy 4 Airbus planes
TEHRAN (Reuters) - National carrier Iran Air plans to buy four Airbus
ARBU.UL planes and is making payments on four others bought last year to
refurbish its aging fleet, it said on Thursday. ``The purchase of four
planes was finalized last year and our company has already made three five-percent
payments on the deal. Four more planes are in line to be purchased,'' Iran
Air Managing Director Ahmad Reza Kazemi said >>>
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Wednesday
December 6, 2000
Kazakhs in talks to develop oil pipeline to Iran
ASTANA (Reuters) - Kazakhstan said on Wednesday it was in talks with
international oil firms to create a consortium for a multi-billion dollar
pipeline through Iran, a plan which could scupper the U.S-backed Baku-Ceyhan
project to Turkey. A Foreign Ministry statement said Kazakhstan was holding
discussions with TotalFina, BG plc and Agip to conduct a feasibility study
for the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran pipeline, which energy analysts say
could be the cheapest evacuation route for Kazakh crude
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Iran backs off free trade zones
December 6 2000 (Financial Times) -- Iran's experiment with off-shore
free trade zones (FTZs) has long been beset by controversy, from accusations
of immoral behaviour to disputes over neckties and smuggling and factional
fighting over business control. Now, 10 years after their inception, officials
say the pro-reform government of President Mohammad Khatami is wrestling
with a big policy change, recognising that the three zones have failed
to achieve their goals of attracting foreign investment and boosting non-oil
exports >>>
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Tuesday
December 5, 2000
Conoco sees quick change in Iran sanctions policy
HOUSTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Conoco Inc.(NYSE:COCa - news)(NYSE:COCb -
news) Chief Executive Archie Dunham said on Tuesday he expects the United
States to drop unilateral economic sanctions against Iran within the next
12 months, regardless of who becomes president. ``I really believe that
the policy will change in the next 12 months,'' Dunham told investment
analysts in Houston >>>
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Lifting of US oil sanctions against Iran "inevitable":
Iran
TEHRAN, Dec 5 (AFP) - Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Hossein Kazempour-Ardebili
said here on Tuesday a lifting of US oil sanctions against Iran was "inevitable."
"The lifting of sanctions is from now on inevitable, because the democrats,
like the republicans, know that they (the sanctions) are of no use,"
he said during a news conference >>>
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Monday
December 4, 2000
Caviar production drops as poaching and pollution rise
One of the world's two major caviar-producing nations, Iran is witnessing
a constant drop in its production as poaching and pollution continue to
take a toll on the Caspian Sea's sturgeon population. "During the
past 20 years, some 140 million sturgeon from the Caspian have disappeared,"
an Iranian official recently said, blaming the phenomenon on illegal fishing
amid increasingly high prices for the black delicacy >>>
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Oil production falls at key oil field
TEHRAN, Dec 2 (AFP) - Low extraction pressure has caused a drop in oil
production at Agha-Jari, long-considered one of Iran's most important fields,
Iranian newspapers reported Saturday, quoting a high official in Iran's
oil ministry. "Because of a loss of pressure in the wells, production
capacity at the Agha-Jari oil fields has declined to around 200,000 barrels
per day (bpd) as opposed to one million bpd in previous years," said
Mir Moezi, assistant director of the Iranian National Oil Company>>> FULL TEXT
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Iran begins exporting doctors to Persian Gulf countries
TEHRAN, Dec 3 (AFP) - Iran has started exporting them to neighbouring
Persian Gulf countries to ease its increasing unemployment problem, press
reports said Sunday. According to the government-run Iran paper, between
150 and 200 specialised physicians have already been sent to Persian Gulf
states in line with a project to "export human resources >>> FULL TEXT
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