September, 2007

• 2 September

  Iran, Kazakhstan Launch Cooperation in Fight against Terrorism

  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a decree on Saturday asking the Interior Ministry to implement a treaty recently singed between Iran and Kyrgyzstan on a joint fight against terrorism and organized crimes.

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• 2 September

  Persian Gulf Arabs Accept Iran Offer for Talks on Free Trade Pact

  Persian Gulf Arab monarchies have agreed to an Iranian offer to launch talks on a possible free trade pact, the secretary general of their oil-rich bloc said on Saturday.

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• 2 September

  Iran Replaces Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Head

  Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei Saturday appointed Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Jafari as the new head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).

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• 2 September

  Iran, Pakistan to Boost Cooperation in Fighting Drugs

  The cooperation between Iran and Pakistan will leave no safe heaven or hideout for bandits, a senior Iranian police commander said, underlining Iran and Pakistan’s decisiveness to enhance coordination and cooperation in fighting drug trafficking and bandits.

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• 2 September

  Calling all tourists to Bamiyan

  Breakfast is being prepared at the Abdul Hamid Hotel. The proprietor, Abdul Hamid, is rushing around with his helpers preparing a meal of unleavened Afghan bread and a thick white butter, and omelettes. This is a popular breakfast stop, about two hours up from Bamiyan town into the hills on …

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• 2 September

  British war on Afghan drugs ‘complete failure’: vice-president

  LONDON (AFP) – Britain’s battle against the drugs trade in southern Afghanistan has been a total failure, the troubled country’s vice-president said Sunday.The drugs eradication policy is simply too soft and it is time to get tough, Ahmad Zia Massoud wrote in the British weekly newspaper The Sunday Telegraph. Poppy …

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• 2 September

  Ex-hostages say they were given gift of life

  SEOUL (AFP) – Nineteen South Korean former hostages who spent six weeks under threat of death from Afghanistan’s Taliban arrived home Sunday, saying they felt as if they had died and then got their lives back.The former captives had tearful reunions with their families at a hospital outside Seoul before …

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• 2 September

  Freed Taliban captives return to SKorea

  INCHEON, South Korea – Nineteen South Koreans freed by Taliban insurgents after six weeks in captivity returned home to tearful embraces from loved ones Sunday, expressing sorrow for two in their group who were killed in Afghanistan and apologizing to the nation.The former hostages, let go in stages last week …

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• 1 September

  US Opposing Iran for Internal Failures

  A distinguished American political analyst, Anthony Silvan Pool, says the US’ anti-Iran distressful efforts stem from internal violence in the White House and the political challenges the country is facing.

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• 1 September

  Iran Non-Oil Exports at $4.4b

  Iran’s non-oil exports reached $4 bln and 400 mln in the first four months of the Iranian year from March 2007, announced deputy commerce minister.

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