TimeLine Layout

December, 2007

  • 24 December

    Official: 2,500 Tons of Afghan Drugs Enter Iran Annually

    TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Some 2,500 tons of narcotics enter Iran from neighboring Afghanistan annually, an anti-drugs official said on Sunday.

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  • 24 December

    Iran $1bln for New Planes

    TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Supreme Council for Management and Economic Planning has allocated $1bln for the acquisition of new passenger aircraft.

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  • 24 December

    Iran to Float Tender for 19 N. Power Plants

    TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran will be announcing bidding for its 19 nuclear power plants, an MP was quoted as saying.

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  • 24 December

    Iran’s First Power Plant to Be Operational by March 2008

    TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian energy minister said his country’s first nuclear power plant will be functional within three months, contradicting earlier claims by Russian company constructing plant that it won’t be operational before end of 2008.

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  • 24 December

    Iran, Italy’s Edison Close to Gas Deal

    TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and Italian power company Edison are nearing agreement on a deal to pump more than a billion cubic feet of Iranian gas to Europe per day, the Iranian oil minister said on Sunday.

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  • 24 December

    The Kite Runner. A Controversial Sensitive Movie

    The Kite Runner is a controversial, though sensitive movie. Directed by Marc Forster, it represents a highly straightforward and effective adaptation of author Khaled Hosseini’s international best selling novel with the same name.  However, although it was nominated for two Golden Globes, The Kite Runner has already become a controversial …

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  • 24 December

    The West in Afghanistan

    NO SIGNIFICANCE need be attached to the visit by some top world leaders to Kabul, Afghanistan, this week, they being essentially a Christmas-eve exercise to cheer up Nato troops from their respective countries.

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  • 24 December

    Soldiers in Afghanistan remember family

    KABUL, Afghanistan – As the choir of Army soldiers sang a spirited “Frosty the Snowman” under a light snowfall Sunday evening, Lt. Cmdr. Lynne O’Neil bobbed in time and thought of her daughter, Anna.

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  • 24 December

    Iran Supports Zimbabwe’s Independence, Progress

    TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here Sunday voiced Tehran’s support for Zimbabwe’s independence and progress, and called for the utilization of all the ample potentials existing for the expansion of Tehran-Harare cooperation.

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  • 24 December

    Ahmadinejad Cautions against Enemies of Iran-China Relations

    TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed that expansion of Tehran-Beijing all-out ties would serve the two nations’ interests as well as global peace and security, and warned against the plots hatched by the enemies of the two states’ consolidated ties.

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