Tehran Times http://www.tehrantimes.com/ Sat, 14 Sep 2013 19:19:54 GMT FeedCreator 1.8.0-dev (info@mypapit.net) Iran's National Development Fund to boost assets to $61b http://www.tehrantimes.com/economy-and-business/110768-irans-national-development-fund-to-boost-assets-to-61b TEHRAN - Assets of Iran’s National Development Fund will increase by over $8 billion in the current Iranian calendar year to reach $61 billion, the NDF deputy director has said. 
 
Qasem Hosseini said the figure represents the worst case projection.
 
If the projected oil revenues are earned, the fund’s assets will hit $61 billion by the end of the year, Hosseini said.
 
The current Iranian calendar year began on March 21, 2013.
 
The NDF assets amounted... Read more

]]> Economic Desk Sat, 14 Sep 2013 16:10:40 GMT http://www.tehrantimes.com/economy-and-business/110768-irans-national-development-fund-to-boost-assets-to-61b Tehran hosting three international exhibitions http://www.tehrantimes.com/economy-and-business/110766-tehran-hosting-three-international-exhibitions TEHRAN – Three international exhibitions are being held concurrently at the Tehran Permanent International Fairgrounds.
 
The 12th international exhibition on biscuits, chocolates, and confectionery industry is underway with 224 Iranian companies and 17 foreign companies in attendance.
The 7th international exhibition on flour and bread industry is underway with 82 Iranian companies and 4 foreign companies in attendance.
 
The 5th international exhibition on drinking and beverage industry is underway with 110 Iranian companies and 3 foreign... Read more

]]> Economic Desk Sat, 14 Sep 2013 16:10:04 GMT http://www.tehrantimes.com/economy-and-business/110766-tehran-hosting-three-international-exhibitions Iran offers India to sign PSA contract http://www.tehrantimes.com/economy-and-business/110764-iran-offers-india-to-sign-psa-contract Iran has offered India to sign a production sharing contract of PSA type on gas block Farsi in a span of three months, Indian newspaper "Business Standard" reported.
 
Thus, Tehran is ready to accept a 100 percent payment of the price of Iranian oil import through rupees.
 
Due to sanctions, India has to make payments for Iranian oil imports through rupees a currency which is facing increasing devaluation.
 
According to the newspaper, under the revised plan, the... Read more

]]> Economic Desk Sat, 14 Sep 2013 16:08:37 GMT http://www.tehrantimes.com/economy-and-business/110764-iran-offers-india-to-sign-psa-contract Current status of Tehran Stock Exchange’s listed companies http://www.tehrantimes.com/economy-and-business/110763-current-status-of-tehran-stock-exchanges-listed-companies On 1st September 2013, the number of listed companies in the TSE reached 314 companies with accepting and offering shares of a new investment company.
 
The newly listed firm, “SEKAB” has established in June 2004 and the company’s listing has increased TSE’s market capitalization to 118 Billion USD.
 
According to the Iranian calendar, in current year, four companies listed in the TSE and 13 companies delisted in the same period because of nonconformity with listing... Read more

]]> Economic Desk Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:56:07 GMT http://www.tehrantimes.com/economy-and-business/110763-current-status-of-tehran-stock-exchanges-listed-companies U.S., Russia reach deal on Syria’s chemical weapons http://www.tehrantimes.com/world/110760-us-russia-reach-deal-on-syrias-chemical-weapons The United States and Russia reached agreement Saturday on a framework to secure Syria's chemical weapons after days of intense negotiations in Geneva. 
The two sides agreed on Saturday on a proposal to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons arsenal, averting the possibility of any immediate U.S. military action against President Bashar al-Assad's government.
 
According to Reuters, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the agreement after nearly three... Read more

]]> Staff & Agencies Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:53:43 GMT http://www.tehrantimes.com/world/110760-us-russia-reach-deal-on-syrias-chemical-weapons Turkey continues crackdown on protesters http://www.tehrantimes.com/world/110761-turkey-continues-crackdown-on-protesters Police have arrested 25 demonstrators during protests in Istanbul’s Kadikoy district, an opposition stronghold, as protesters took to the streets for a fifth night running.

On Friday night police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the Turkish capital Ankara, Istanbul and Hatay, Al Jazeera reported.
 
Thousands gathered in Ankara to protest against the construction of a cultural centre that will have be both a Sunni mosque and an Alevi prayer... Read more

]]> Staff & Agencies Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:53:39 GMT http://www.tehrantimes.com/world/110761-turkey-continues-crackdown-on-protesters India keen on paying for oil imports from Iran only in rupees http://www.tehrantimes.com/economy-and-business/110765-india-keen-on-paying-for-oil-imports-from-iran-only-in-rupees NEW DELHI (PTI) —  India is keen to restart the system of paying crude oil it buys from Iran entirely in rupees to help stabilize the local currency and reduce the country's current-account deficit.
 
The issue figured during a meeting called by Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Pulok Chatterji to discuss raising crude oil imports from Iran to curtail dollar payouts, sources said.
 
Iran had in July agreed to take payments for oil it sells to India... Read more

]]> Economic Desk Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:52:42 GMT http://www.tehrantimes.com/economy-and-business/110765-india-keen-on-paying-for-oil-imports-from-iran-only-in-rupees Ex-FM Kharrazi says Leader’s strategic policy key in U.S. retreat http://www.tehrantimes.com/politics/110758-ex-fm-kharrazi-says-leaders-strategic-policy-key-in-us-retreat TEHRAN – Former foreign minister Kamal Kharrazi said on Saturday that the strategic policy pursued by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has forced the United States to back down in its standoff with Iran.
 
“It is the strategic policy of the Leadership which resists foreigners, and any government which resists foreigners it actually moves in the direction of national might,” Kharrazi told reporters when asked about the... Read more

]]> Political Desk Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:47:00 GMT http://www.tehrantimes.com/politics/110758-ex-fm-kharrazi-says-leaders-strategic-policy-key-in-us-retreat Iraqi parliament speaker in Tehran for high-level talks http://www.tehrantimes.com/politics/110757-iraqi-parliament-speaker-in-tehran-for-high-level-talks TEHRAN – Iraqi Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi arrived in Tehran on Saturday for talks with senior Iranian officials.
 
Iranian Majlis Vice Speaker Mohammad Hassan Aboutorabi-Fard welcomed Nujaifi, who is heading a parliamentary delegation, at Mehrabad International Airport.
 
Addressing reporters at the airport, Nujaifi said he was happy to visit Iran and called for the expansion of ties between Tehran and Baghdad.  
 
Aboutorabi-Fard expressed hope that the friendly and brotherly neighboring countries of Iran and... Read more

]]> Political Desk Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:46:00 GMT http://www.tehrantimes.com/politics/110757-iraqi-parliament-speaker-in-tehran-for-high-level-talks U.S. has tortured Iranians for past 60 years: Chomsky http://www.tehrantimes.com/world/110759-us-has-tortured-iranians-for-past-60-years-chomsky- Prominent American academic Noam Chomsky has lashed out at the United States for its continued policy of ‘torturing’ the Iranian nation over the past six decades.

“For the past 60 years, not a day has passed in which the US has not been torturing Iranians,” Chomsky said in a Wednesday interview with Democracy Now. 
 
“That’s 60 years, right now, began with a military coup, which overthrew the parliamentary regime in 1953,... Read more

]]> World Desk Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:43:19 GMT http://www.tehrantimes.com/world/110759-us-has-tortured-iranians-for-past-60-years-chomsky-