Eurasia Press & News
TEHRAN (FNA)- Kenya may seek help from Iran to boost its electricity production, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said during talks with the visiting Iranian Agricultural Jihad Minister, Mohammed Reza Eskandari, on Tuesday.
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August, 2008
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13 August
Iranian Automaker Seeking to Gain Bigger Share of World Market
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran-Khodro car manufacturing company said that its global capacity will soon reach 800,000 vehicles.
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13 August
Iran Plans to Boost Crude Steel Production
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Industries and Mining Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian said his country’s crude steel production capacity will reach 15.5 million tons by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (ending March 20, 2009).
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13 August
Iran Plans No More Floating Oil Storage Sales
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has no plans to sell any more of the oil it holds in floating storage off its southern coast, a top Iranian oil official said in remarks published on Tuesday.
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13 August
Iran Blames Weak Dollar for Surge in Oil Prices
TEHRAN (FNA)- Thirty percent of the increase in the price of oil is because of the decrease in the value of the dollar, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said.
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13 August
Turkey Raises Iran Gas Imports
TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkey will increase its imports of gas from Iran to compensate for a reduction in supplies from Azerbaijan resulting from the conflict in Georgia, a senior source from the Turkish pipeline company Botas said on Tuesday.
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13 August
Iran Warns against Surprise Attack
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said on Tuesday that the Iranian armed forces are ready to counter any surprise attack by the enemies with a crushing response.
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13 August
Iran to Help Iraq Cut Power Shortage
TEHRAN (FNA)- The crisis over electricity failure grows as summer temperatures climb and a drought plagues Iraq, and it is where Iran enters to help Iraqis where the US has failed.
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13 August
EU backs plan to monitor Georgia truce
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union foreign ministers agreed in principle on Wednesday to send monitors to supervise a French-brokered ceasefire between Russia and Georgia in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia.
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13 August
Palestinians bury poet Darwish in emotional funeral
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinians gave their national poet Mahmoud Darwish what amounted to a state funeral in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, mourning a man who articulated their sense of loss, exile and defiance.
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