Eurasia Press & News
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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August, 2008
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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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2 August
Patriarhia rusa vrea in UE
Patriarhia Rusa a facut apel la gasirea unor noi modaliÂtati de participare a Rusiei si fostelor republici sovietice, cu populatie majoritar ortoÂdoxa, la procesele de inteÂgrare in structurile UE, informeaza Interfax. Demersurile bisericii conduse de Patriarhul Alexei al II-lea, ofiter al fostelor servicii secrete sovietice KGB, vin dupa o recenta …
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2 August
Rusia se remilitarizeaza si formuleaza o noua doctrina militara
Noile realitati geopolitice impun Moscovei mai multe aspecte cu care guvernantii de la Kremlin nu sunt de acord. Printre acestea se numara probleme legate de instalarea scutului antiracheta american pe teritoriul european, bazele militare americane de la Marea Neagra din Bulgaria si Romania, eventuala aderare la NATO a Georgiei si …
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1 August
Hamas arrests Abbas representatives in Gaza
GAZA (Reuters) – Hamas security forces arrested Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s top Fatah representatives in the Gaza Strip on Friday, ratcheting up tensions between the rival factions.
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