January, 2008

• 5 January

  Iran Official: Gas Contract with Iran Violated by Turkmenistan

  TEHRAN (FNA) Turkmenistan has violated a last year contract which required Ashgabat to double supplies to Iran following an increase in prices, an Iranian oil ministry official said.

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• 5 January

  Quake Hits Southern Iran

  TEHRAN (FNA) An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale jolted the port city of Kong in Iran’s southern province of Hormozgan on Saturday.

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• 5 January

  Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution: Warns Aggressors against Invasion of Iran

  TEHRAN (FNA) Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said that Iran would humiliate any possible attacker over its nuclear program.

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• 5 January

  Registration for Parliamentary Elections Opens in Iran

  TEHRAN (FNA) Registration for March 14 parliamentary elections opened on Saturday throughout Iran, with potential candidates set to vie for 290 seats in the legislature including a politically important 30 in the capital Tehran.

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• 5 January

  China’s Soueast Motor Wins Deal to Export 5,700 Minibuses to Iran

  TEHRAN (FNA) China’s Soueast Motor Co. Ltd. has clinched a deal with an Iranian company to sell 5,700 minibuses this year after exporting 8,000 of the vehicles to the country last year, the company said on Friday.

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• 5 January

  Larijani, Syrian FM Discuss Lebanon

  TEHRAN (FNA) Iran’s former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Friday discussed developments in Lebanon.

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• 5 January

  Iran, Pakistan Discuss Oil, Gas Sectors Cooperation

  TEHRAN (FNA) Pakistan’s Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Ahsanullah Khan said there exists tremendous scope for promoting Pak-Iran ties in the oil, gas and mineral sectors and invited the Iranian companies to participate in the upcoming petroleum projects for learning a lot from each others’ experience.

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• 5 January

  Iranian, Indian Firms to Meet again on Oil, Gas Deals

  TEHRAN (FNA) India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp and the Hinduja Group will meet again with Iranian firms on developing an oil and a gas field in Iran and downstream projects in India, a Hinduja Group official said on Friday.

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• 5 January

  Iran: Many OPEC States Can’t Raise Output

  TEHRAN (FNA) Many OPEC states are now producing as much oil as they can, limiting the ability of the cartel to raise output even if such a decision was made to help cool crude prices, an Iranian oil official was quoted on Saturday as saying.

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• 5 January

  Iran Seeks Pakistan’s Cooperation in Fighting Terrorism

  TEHRAN (FNA) Iran on Friday sought Pakistan’s cooperation in combating terrorism which threatened the stability of the entire region.

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