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Iran Needs $300 Billion a Year in Foreign Investment

Iran needs an annual $300 billion in foreign direct investment to meet its objective of 8 percent economic growth by 2015, Tehran Times reported, citing Deputy Economy Minister Behrouz Alishiri.

19 December 2011
Kurdistan

Kurdish prisoner's death sentence commuted

Iranian authorities have reduced the death sentence of Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian to life in prison, Jalalian's defence attorney reports.

19 December 2011
Iran

Iran, Syria Sign Free Trade Pact

Iran and Syria have signed a free trade agreement in a bid to boost bilateral trade especially in industry, mining and agriculture, the deputy industry, mine and trade minister stated on Sunday.

19 December 2011
Iran

Iran: Students demonstrate against head of state newspaper Kayhan

Students at Tehran's Abbaspour University protested a recent speech by Hossein Shariatmadari, the director of the state newspaper Kayhan. Iranian media report that Shariatmadari was invited last Sunday by the university's Basij students to…

18 December 2011
Iran

Iran says it arrests suspected US spy

Iran's Intelligence Ministry said Saturday that its agents have arrested a person of Iranian origin on suspicion of spying for the United States.

18 December 2011
Iran

Indian refiners explore replacing Iranian oil - sources

Indian companies have begun talks with alternative suppliers to slowly replace Iranian oil, fearing their current mechanism for payments to Tehran for some 350,000 barrels a day (bpd) via Turkey could soon succumb to sanctions, industry…

18 December 2011
Iran

Iran to produce invasive drone aircraft

Iran's military has the ability to build unmanned aircraft and is in the process of doing so, Fars News reported citing country's defense minister Ahmad Vahidi, as saying.

18 December 2011