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Saturday, 03 January 2009 10:44 |
BAGHDAD, Jan 3 (KUNA) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki will head to Iran on Saturday on a three-day official visit.
A sources in the Premiership told KUNA that Al-Maliki was heading a large delegation grouping the ministers of commerce, transportation, and electricity, as well as parliamentarians.
The source said that the two sides were expected to discuss joint dossiers, noting that this visit had been scheduled for December 27 but had been postponed for reasons pertaining to the Iraqi government.
The source refused to elaborate on these reasons.
On December 27, Al-Maliki had visited Turkey and met with top officials there, and the two sides discussed progress made by the joint committees of the two countries. (end) ahh.ema KUNA
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Sunday, 31 August 2008 12:15 |
TEHRAN, Aug 30, (AFP): A senior military commander warned on Saturday that any attack on Iran would start a new world war, as Tehran pressed on with its controversial nuclear drive despite the risk of further UN sanctions. “Any aggression against Iran will start a world war,” deputy chief of staff for defence publicity, Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, said in a statement carried by the state news agency IRNA. Iran is under international pressure to halt uranium enrichment, a process which lies at the core of fears about Iran’s nuclear programme as it can make nuclear fuel as well as the fissile core of an atom bomb. “The unrestrained greed of the US leadership and global Zionism... is gradually leading the world to the edge of a precipice,” Jazayeri said, citing the unrest in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan and Georgia.
“It is evident that if such a challenge occurs, the fake and artificial regimes will be eliminated before anything,” he said, without naming any countries. Iran does not recognise Israel, which is often described by officials in Tehran as a “fake regime” and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has provoked itnernational outrage saying it should be wiped off the map. The United States and its staunch ally Israel, the region’s sole if undeclared nuclear armed nation, accuse Iran of seeking atomic weapons under the guise of a civilian nuclear programme. Iran, a leading OPEC member, has vehemently denied the allegations, insisting its only wants to provide electricity for a growing population when its reserves of fossil fuels run out.
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