August, 2008

• 3 August

  Ahmadinejad: Iran will not Budge on N. Rights

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told his visiting Syrian counterpart on Saturday that although Iran welcomes talks on its nuclear program, it will not give up even an iota of its legitimate right to access civilian nuclear technology.

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• 3 August

  Iran Arrests 7 Israeli Spies

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Seven detained Baha’i believers have confessed to setting up an illegal organization in Iran that took orders from Israel and others to undermine the Islamic system, an Iranian paper reported on Saturday.

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• 3 August

  Bus Accident Kills 16 in Southern Iran

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Sixteen people were killed and 11 were injured when a bus and a truck collided in southern Iran on Sunday.

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• 3 August

  Iran Expects OPEC to Control Quotas

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran, the number two oil producer in OPEC, expects the cartel to discuss ways of controlling the quotas of member countries at its next meeting in September, Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said.

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• 3 August

  Oil Prices Spike as West Speaks of Ultimatum to Iran

  TEHRAN (FNA)- World oil prices faced a roller coaster ride this week, tumbling on US demand concerns before rocketing higher on resurgent fears about West’s ultimatum to Iran over the latter’s nuclear energy programs, traders said.

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• 2 August

  Iran unlikely to yield to US deadline on nuclear issue

  It is unlikely that Iran, being a sovereign state, will yield to the latest deadline of the United States pressurizing Iran to answer an international nuclear incentives offer or face new sanctions.

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• 2 August

  Ahmadinejad: Iran welcomes just negotiation

   President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that Iran has always welcomed just negotiations.

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• 2 August

  Statoil withdrawal not announced officially: minister

  The Norwegian StatoilHydro company has not officially announced that it would withdraw from activities in an Iranian oil field, Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari said on Saturday.

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• 2 August

  Foreign investors active in Assaluyeh

  The managing director of Pars Special Economic Energy Zone (PSEEZ) says foreign firms are active in its gas and petrochemical projects.

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• 2 August

  US insists on weekend deadline for Iran

  The US insists on a ‘weekend’ deadline for NPT signatory Iran to reply to an incentives package for suspending its nuclear program.

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