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Sahar TV- Spectrum Iran- 05-05-2014| Iran’s Industrial Self-Sufficiency 3 – Video
Sahar TV- Spectrum Iran- 05-05-2014| Iran #39;s Industrial Self-Sufficiency 3
Full Video: http://goo.gl/wP5VHN One of the firms at the forefront of accomplishments made in industry and energy over the past two decades in the Islamic Republic has been Mapna Industrial...
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Iran Targets Oil Boost of 1 Million Barrels a Day, Zanganeh Says
Iran, hampered by sanctions over its nuclear program, plans within four years to boost crude-output capacity by 1 million barrels a day at fields it shares with neighboring states, Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said.
This will be the biggest achievement in the history of the oil industry in Iran, he said today at the opening of an energy conference in Tehran.
The fourth-largest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is also pressing ahead with work at South Pars, part of a gas deposit straddling the border with Qatar, Zanganeh said. Iran expects to complete several of the projects 17 phases in about three years, he said.
The government is trying to attract foreign investment in crude, natural gas and chemicals production even as it seeks the removal of U.S. and European sanctions. The U.S. and allied states say Iran is working to develop atomic-weapons technology, a claim the government denies. An interim nuclear accord between the two sides expires July 20.
An increase in oil-production capacity on the scale Zanganeh described would boost Irans output by as much as 35 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The country pumped 2.84 million barrels a day in April, the data show.
European companies including Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Repsol SA previously had contracts to develop areas of the South Pars gas field. Their contracts expired in the last decade after sanctions blocked the companies from operating there.
Iran expects to increase gas exports after making progress at South Pars, Ali Majedi, a deputy oil minister, said at the conference. A pipeline to export gas to Europe via Turkey could be ready in two to three years if Turkey and Iran can agree on the plan, Majedi said.
Irans petrochemicals industry needs investment of more than $70 billion, Zanganeh said. The country plans to start eight gas condensate refineries this year, each with a fuel-processing capacity of 80,000 barrels a day, he said.
Six hundred foreign companies are participating in the three-day conference this year, three times as many as in 2013, the oil ministrys Shana news website reported, citing Akbar Nehmatollahi, a ministry spokesman.
To contact the reporters on this story: Golnar Motevalli in Tehran at gmotevalli@bloomberg.net; Anthony DiPaola in Dubai at adipaola@bloomberg.net
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Iran's Hard-Line Lawmakers Grill FM on Holocaust
Hard-line Iranian lawmakers grilled the country's foreign minister on Tuesday about Tehran's step back from past policies of denying the Holocaust.
The questioning was prompted by an interview Mohammed Javad Zarif gave to German media in February in which he said the Holocaust was a "horrifying tragedy" that should never happen again.
In Tuesday's parliament session, aired live on state radio, Zarif defended his stance, saying that Holocaust denial had given Iran's archenemy Israel a tool to use against it.
It was the second time Zarif was summoned to parliament and questioned about his stance and comments.
The move was apparently part of the hard-liners' increasing pressure on the administration of moderate President Hassan Rouhani, who has offered outreach in place of saber-rattling and Holocaust denial by his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In 2005, Ahmadinejad prompted an international outcry when he called the Holocaust a "myth."
Six million Jews were killed by German Nazis and their collaborators in the Holocaust, which wiped out a third of world Jewry. Today, fewer than 200,000 elderly Holocaust survivors remain in Israel.
Zarif told the Iranian lawmakers on Tuesday that as long as he is foreign minister, he will not allow Iran's reputation to be damaged with statements about "Holocaust denial."
While he did not outright acknowledge the Holocaust, Zarif said such denials only serve Israel and the "Zionists' projects against Iran."
"From the point of view of the Iranian people, massacres of innocent people anywhere and in any form are to be condemned," said Zarif.
However, Zarif assailed Israel, accusing it of spreading propaganda against Tehran and "Irano-phobia."
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Telethon ON IRANIAN TV’S (OMID IRAN ,….) SUNDAY MAY 4th – Video
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