Eurasia Press & News
The men who hijacked a Turkish plane Saturday morning surrendered themselves to the Turkish officials later in the day.
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August, 2007
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19 August
Iraqi PM to Visit Syria to Discuss Security Issues
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is due to discuss security, political and economic issues with Syrian officials during a three-day visit to Damascus starting from Monday, a Syrian official said.
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19 August
Iranian Gov’t Supports Muslim Investors
Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said that government encourages and supports foreign investments in Iran, specially by Muslim countries, adding that the world of Islam is in need of such participation and partnership.
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19 August
Quake Hits Southern Iran
An earth tremor measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale jolted the city of Khonj in Iran’s southern province of Fars on Saturday.
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19 August
Iran Denounces Hijacking of Turkish Plane
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammed Ali Hosseini Saturday denounced the hijacking of a Turkish passenger plane this morning, saying that the Islamic Republic would not issue the landing permission for the hijacked plane under any conditions.
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19 August
Gov’t Spokesman Scoffs at US Efforts to Blacklist IRGC
Iranian Government Spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham described as baseless and unfounded the recent words and efforts made by the US to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terror group, saying that nobody in the world would buy such worthless words.
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19 August
US Awe Shattered in Iraq
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the historical defeat and failure of the US and its allies in Iraq shattered their global awe.
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19 August
Iran, Tajikistan Exchange Foreign Tourists
Iran and Tajikistan have agreed to exchange foreign tourists who take a trip to either country, an Iranian tourism official said here Saturday.
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19 August
Iran’s Security Increases
Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said that his country’s security coefficient has increased.
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19 August
India Underlines Iran’s N. Rights
India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that Iran had the right to have nuclear energy as an NPT member.
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