Zitat:Iran: Sanktionen
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12.08.2010, 18:41

Von Rudolph Chimelli

Sanktionen gegen Iran verpuffen wirkungslos, weil das Land Boykottmaßnahmen mit einem weltweiten Netz von Scheinfirmen umgehen kann. Und Präsident Ahmadinedschad argumentiert positiv: Sein Land würde stärker - durch die Isolierung.
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Zitat:Gas deal with Iran still on, EGL says
Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:36:30 GMT

The Swiss energy group EGL says its €18 billion gas contract with Iran is still on, despite the US threats of sanctions over the gas deal with Tehran.

In 2007, the Elektrizitaetsgesellschaft Laufenburg (EGL) signed a 25-year agreement with the National Iranian Gas Export Company (NIGEC) to import around 5.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year from Iran.
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Zitat:...“We are not violating any regulations, and [we] follow rules; we feel we are not really deserving to come on the [sanctions] list,” the Jerusalem Post quoted EGL spokeswoman Lilly Frei as saying.
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Zitat:India says still pursuing Iran 'peace pipeline'
AFP
NEW DELHI, Aug 17, 2010 (AFP) - Energy-hungry India said Tuesday it was still hoping to import natural gas from Iran through a much-delayed pipeline, but said contentious issues such as pricing must be resolved.
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"Till we get assurances about issues like pricing of gas, delivery point of gas, project structure, payment of transportation tariff and transit fees for passage of natural gas through Pakistan, talks will continue."

Earlier this year, Islamabad signed a deal with Tehran paving the way for building the pipeline, which would link Iran's South Fars gas field with Pakistan's southern Baluchistan and Sindh provinces.
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Zitat:Iran allocates $2.2b for gasoline projects

TEHRAN, Aug. 17 (MNA) -- Iran has allocated $2.2 billion for seven gasoline production and refinery renovation projects, the Iranian deputy oil minister Alireza Zeighami said here on Tuesday.
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“Once the projects come on stream, 12 million liters of gasoline would be added to the country’s production capacity and 70 percent of the nation’s demand to the product will be met,” Zeighami explained.
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Iran currently produces 44 million liters of gasoline per day.
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Zitat:Dana Insurance Co. cedes 5% of shares in IPO
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The government raised 13.7 billion rials ($1.4 million) from more than 5 million Dana shares sold on Tuesday, the TSE said on its website. The stock sold in nine minutes, representing 614 trades, the TSE said.

Dana is the third insurance company in which the government has offered shares, after Asia and Alborz.
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Zitat:Bank Saderat to offer $475m in bonds on SP development plan

TEHRAN, Aug. 14 (MNA) -- 5 trillion rials (some $475 million) worth in bonds will be initially offered to the public for the development of the South Pars gas field by Bank Saderat of Iran starting August 21st.

The public relations officer of Pars Oil and Gas Company said that the bonds were resalable 3-year bonds with 16 percent interest, SHANA reported.
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Zitat: 16.08.2010

Iran
Der erste Stein

Von Dieter Bednarz

Auch nach seiner Flucht kämpft der Teheraner Anwalt Mostafai für seine von der Steinigung bedrohte Mandantin Aschtiani. Ihr Fall ist dramatischer als bislang bekannt.
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Zitat:TEHRAN (ISNA)-Iran is to build the longest gondola lift line in the world.

The aerial lift line which is 36 km long is to be built in northwestern city of Orumieh, ... "The initial phase of the gondola lift starts to be built Saturday August 28 in the presence of some officials of the province," ...

Zitat:Iran löst Konten in Europa auf
AFP

Wegen der EU-Sanktionen im Atomstreit mit dem Iran hat Teheran nach eigenen Angaben sämtliche iranische Bankkonten in Europa aufgelöst. Die Zentralbank habe die Guthaben iranischer Banken von Konten in Europa abgezogen, sagte Zentralbankchef Mahmud Bahmani laut einem Bericht der Nachrichtenagentur Fars. Daher gebe es kein Problem mit dem Einfrieren iranischer Konten durch die Europäische Union.
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Zitat:VP: Iranian Nation not to Give in to Enemies' Pressures

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian First Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi underlined here on Wednesday that enemy sanctions on Iran are ineffective and Tehran will continue resistance against all kinds of pressures.
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"The Islamic Iran's nation and government will never retreat because of sanctions, military threats and show of force by the enemies and these sanctions will never defeat us," Rahimi said, speaking at the inauguration ceremony of over 900 huge development projects in Tehran province today.

"Thanks to the guidelines of the Supreme Leader of the Revolution, the (Iranian) nation and the government will never leave the battlefield because of conspiracies, plots, sanctions and even military threats," he noted.
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Zitat:Ankara Pledges to Continue Joint Projects with Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkish Industry and Trade Minister Nihat Ergun said that his country is determined to implement its joint projects with Iran despite the existing restrictions imposed on Tehran by the West.
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Yaldiz said plans by Turkey and Iran for the joint construction of power plants with a total capacity of 6,000 megawatts would continue, giving the two countries enough capacity to feed their own markets as well as other countries in the Middle East.
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Zitat:Iranian Company in Talks with S. Korean Creditors to Buy Daewoo Electronics

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian home appliance maker Entekhab Industrial Group is negotiating with the South Korean creditors to buy the country's number 3 electronics firm, Daewoo Electronics.
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Zitat:China in Talks with Tehran to Develop Iran's Railway Network

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and China are in final talks over a multi-billion-dollar railway project linking Iran's western provinces, a senior Iranian official announced on Saturday.
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Zitat:Beijing to Invest in Petrochemical Projects in Iran

TEHRAN (FNA)- The National Iranian Petrochemical Company (NIPC) and a Chinese consortium reached an agreement on one billion dollars of investment by the latter in Iran's petrochemical projects.
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Zitat:Iran to sign US $20 billion railway construction contract with China
12:59, August 31, 2010
China and Iran will sign the final agreement to build a railway network in the western part of Iran on Sept. 12, Iranian Minister of Road and Transportation Hamid Behbahani said on Aug. 29.
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the planned railway network, which is expected to be finished in two and a half years, will connect Tehran to the central cities of Arak, Malayer, Hamedan, the western city of Kermanshah and the bordering town of Khosravi.

Iranian officials said that the railway lines will be expanded to Iraq and connect Syria and Mediterranean countries.
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Zitat:‘Privatization not fully based on Article 44 of constitution’

TEHRAN, Sept. 6 (MNA) – Chairman of The Supreme Audit Court (SAC) Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli has expressed his views about major economic issues including the fourth and fifth development plans, privatization, excessive imports, and the subsidy reform plan.
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On privatization, Fazli said the handover of the state companies to the private sector has not been carried out according to the requirements set in the Article 44 of the Constitution and most of the companies have been handed over to the semi-official companies.

“The private sector has been involved in at most 15 percent of the transactions and handovers,” he stated.

About excessive imports into the country, he said even in the production of simple products, Iranian companies can not compete with rival foreign companies.

Fazli also pointed to the subsidy reform plan, saying officials should honestly inform people about the repercussion of the plan.

“For sure, the implementation of the plan will lead to a rise in prices,” he asserted.
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Zitat:Iran should engage in intellectual jihad with the West: Leader

TEHRAN, Sept. 6 (MNA) -- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran should have the audacity to engage in intellectual debate with the proponents of Western liberal democracy.
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“In Islamic culture, jihad means making efforts to negotiate obstacles… and now the country is truly in need of academic jihad,” he opined.
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If the Iranian nation wants to be held in high esteem and to be independent, powerful, and prosperous, it should enhance its universities, he noted.
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