Eurasia Press & News
TEHRAN (FNA) – Oman’s Deputy Prime Minister for Cabinet Affairs Fahd bin Mahmud al-Said is due to pay a visit to Iran in the near future, Tehran’s ambassador to Masqat said here on Monday.
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February, 2008
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18 February
Oil Bourse Opens in Kish
TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranian Oil Ministry Sunday announced the launch of operation by the country’s first oil products bourse in the free trade zone on the Persian Gulf Island of Kish.
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18 February
Iran-US Financial Meeting Nothing Special
TEHRAN (FNA) – Iranian Economy Minister Davoud Danesh Jafari downplayed a secret meeting last month between US and Iranian banking officials, calling it “an exchange of views” over the Islamic nation’s new money laundering law.
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18 February
Iran’s Ma’aref Radio Launches English Service
TEHRAN (FNA) – Radio Ma’aref (Islamic Knowledge) has launched its English service on the ninth anniversary of the start of its work which coincided the birth anniversary of Imam Musa Kazem (Shiites’ seventh Imam) on Sunday 17 February.
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18 February
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei: West Fears Iran’s Achievements
TEHRAN (FNA) – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said the reason Western powers threaten Iran is that they are afraid of the nation’s determination.
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18 February
Iranian Parliament Backs Bigger Budget
TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s parliament has approved a bigger budget for 2008-09 totaling the equivalent of $310 billion.
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18 February
UN Leads Condemnation of Afghanistan Suicide Bombing
Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon led international condemnation of a suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed as many as 80 people, one of the deadliest attacks since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
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18 February
UN condemns suicide attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan
UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) — The United Nations condemned “in the strongest terms” the suicide attack that killed about 80 people and injured 50 others in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar Sunday morning.
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17 February
Ringleader of Chechen murtadin once more declared ‘complete victory’
Photo: Eliminated ringleader of Chechen murtadin Akhmad Kadyrov  The ringleader of Chechen murtadin (apostates) Kadyrov, in widely advertised Internet-conference once more declared that Mujahideen allegedly suffered “total defeat”. Kadyrov reiterated his thesis that “total of 50-60 militants” are remaining in Chechnya’s mountains.
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17 February
Ingushetia crisis deepens
Observers say violence in Ingushetia’s main town shows republic is spiralling out of control. A growing confrontation between the authorities in Ingushetia and a new opposition movement is turning violent and making this autonomous republic the most volatile region in the North Caucasus.
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