Iran holds the deal of the century with Iraq and the World Bank classifies unable because of the san

Iran holds the deal of the century with Iraq and the World Bank classifies unable because of the sanctions


- JULY 21, 2013

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deal, Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Ghasemi in Baghdad yesterday, the largest convention in the Middle East to supply Iraq with natural gas.
According to a source at the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, said the Convention is scheduled to conclude today to supply power plants invading Baghdad and station Mansuriyya in Diyala, 25 million cubic meters of natural gas, $ 10 million a day is equivalent to 3.7 billion annually.
According to statements by Iranian officials that the export process will begin next September after the completion of the D gas pipeline with a length of 227 kilometers inside Iranian territory and 270 kilometers inside Iraqi territory comes the deal between the two countries at a time when international sanctions imposed tough on Iran because of its refusal to abandon its nuclear program. The sources said that the Iranian and Iraqi This transaction is part of the attempt to rescue the Iranian economy actually under threat of sanctions. The sources expressed fears that the new deal added billions of dollars is the value of Iranian exports to Iraq being delivered by illegal means to Iran, which suffers from a significant lack of hard currency. The United States did not respond to a request from Iraqi exclude Iraq from the sanctions imposed on Iran, allowing it to pay value مستورداته them. The new contract deal with Iraq at a time when the World Bank said that he put loans to Iran in the category of non-performing loans because Tehran had not paid any installments of loans owed ​​to the bank for more than six months. The World Bank Iran in this category means that the Islamic Republic of Iran will become ineligible for any new funds from the World Bank may find it more difficult to borrow from commercial creditors.
condemns Iran for the World Bank a total of $ 697 million until June 30, including premiums late amounting to 79 million. For its part, reported news agency IRNA that Iran denied yesterday that they have stopped paying its debt to the World Bank during the past six months and said the Western sanctions that prevented the bank and broker the transfer of funds to the World Bank. Said Behrouz on Shire Deputy Secretary of the Iranian economy that statement the World Bank wrong completely.
agency quoted him as saying that Iran had paid all installments on time.
on the other hand, gunmen kidnapped yesterday cultural attache at the Iranian embassy in Sanaa and took him to an unknown destination, what a security source said. The source said on condition of anonymity that the Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Sanaa today by unidentified gunmen adding that the kidnappers are being sought to determine their identity and find out where to transfer. Iranian diplomat kidnapped before noon on a street near the Iranian Embassy in Hada neighborhood south of the Yemeni capital, the source said. On the other hand, a security officer said that doubts heading the security services to be al Qaeda was behind the kidnapping
and often testifies Yemen kidnappings of foreigners, mostly adopts armed tribes used this method to put pressure on the authorities in order to meet its demands. But attributed kidnappings also al-Qaeda in Yemen, including kidnapping Saudi diplomat Abdullah Al-Khalidi, who is still in the hands of organized extremist since kidnapped in March 2012 in Aden.
kidnapped hundreds during the last 15 years, but released them unharmed, often against ransoms.
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