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Energy in Iran

  • A delegation of additional than 100 French companies arrived in Tehran

    IRAN, 2014/02/07 French gas firm Gaz de France, has announced its readiness to work with Iran, the Tasnim News agency reported The company made the announcement during the visit of a French business delegation to Iran on Tuesday. The cooperation will be apart from that of Total and Technip in this field. A delegation of additional than 100 French companies arrived in Tehran on Monday in the biggest demonstration of western business interest in Iran for additional than a decade, Financial Times reported.

  • Iran's energy sector currently exports to 20 nations,

    IRAN, 2013/12/13 Iran plans to increase its electricity exports to neighboring Iraq by 500 megawatt hours, Iranian Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian said. "We have had good negotiations with Iraqi officials," Chitchian said. "Boosting electricity exports and a additional active presence of Iranian companies in Iraq's water and electricity projects were part the major agreements," he explained. The minister went on to note that Iran's energy sector currently exports to 20 nations, adding that the exports include technical and engineering services, inclunding equipment.

  • Zimbabwe Denies Ever Signing Uranium Deal With Iran

    IRAN, 2013/08/11 Controversies were fanned on Saturday night at the same time as the same Deputy Mines Minister who was quoted by the British owned Times newspaper in the morning allegedly saying that he saw a document Zimbabwe signed with Iran which includes the export of the contentious Uranium susbstance, Gift Chimanikire, has been quoted denying the statement. Deputy Minister Chimanikire who belongs to the MDC party led by Morgan Tsvangirai has since been quoted saying the statement is not authentic. “We have no capacity to handle uranium as a country, and besides we don’t even know the quantity of uranium” Chimanikire told the South African Bloomberg paper in a phone interview late Saturday.
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