Iran

Turkmenistan Cuts Gas Export to Iran to Double Prices

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) After a wave of freezing cold weather covered a majority of Iranian city, Turkmenistan misused the opportunity and halted gas supplies to Iran to double the price of exports to the Islamic Republic, an informed source in the Oil Ministry said here on Monday.

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Iran’s 1st N. Power Plant to Open in 2008

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Sunday that it will begin operation of the country’s first nuclear power plant in the summer of 2008 using half its 1,000 megawatt capacity.

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Turkmenistan Stops Gas Exports to Iran

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran’s gas imports from Turkmenistan halted since Saturday morning, a senior gas company official said here today calling on people to lower consumption to make up for the current shortage felt in an Iranian northern province.

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Demography may force Moscow to reduce aize of Russian military

Even though Vladimir Putin’s designated successor says few senior officials even know what demography is, changes in the number of 18-year-olds over the next few years will impose severe constraints on the Russian government and may force it to reduce the size of its armed forces.

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