Iran’s EU exports up despite sanctions

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JNN 02 Jan 2011 : Iran’s exports to EU member states rose by 55 percent during the country’s fourth five-year development plan (2005-2010), the Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) of Iran has said.

The value of Iran’s exports to EU states reaches from $1.3 billion in the year 1384 (21 March 2005-20 March 2006) to $2.13 in the year 1388, which ended on March 21, 2010, IRNA quoted Reza Tofiqi, an official for the TPO international affairs as saying on Saturday.

He added that the volume of Iran’s non-oil exports to EU states showed a 49 percent increase over the same period.

“Iran’s non-oil exports to the European Union revealed an eight percent boost during the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year of 1389 (started on March 21, 2010),” the TPO official said.

The UN Security Council imposed a fourth round of US-engineered sanctions resolution on Iran over Western allegations that Tehran is developing a military nuclear program.

Iranian officials refute such allegations and stress that as a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the country has a legitimate right to pursue peaceful nuclear technology.

 

Iran's EU exports up despite sanctions

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JNN 02 Jan 2011 : Iran’s exports to EU member states rose by 55 percent during the country’s fourth five-year development plan (2005-2010), the Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) of Iran has said.

The value of Iran’s exports to EU states reaches from $1.3 billion in the year 1384 (21 March 2005-20 March 2006) to $2.13 in the year 1388, which ended on March 21, 2010, IRNA quoted Reza Tofiqi, an official for the TPO international affairs as saying on Saturday.

He added that the volume of Iran’s non-oil exports to EU states showed a 49 percent increase over the same period.

“Iran’s non-oil exports to the European Union revealed an eight percent boost during the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year of 1389 (started on March 21, 2010),” the TPO official said.

The UN Security Council imposed a fourth round of US-engineered sanctions resolution on Iran over Western allegations that Tehran is developing a military nuclear program.

Iranian officials refute such allegations and stress that as a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the country has a legitimate right to pursue peaceful nuclear technology.

 

‘Iran ready to export air defense system’

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JNN 02 Jan 2011 : The commander of a major Iranian air defense base says the facility is mass producing anti-aircraft systems and is ready to export such systems.

“We can meet all our needs in the air defense sector by relying on domestic resources,” Ahmad Miqani, the commander of Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base, told Fars News Agency on Sunday.

“When we [design and] develop weapons, they will be mass produce, and we can export the surplus to other countries in deemed appropriate,” Cmdr. Miqani said.

He further described US threats against Iran as a “31-year-old war of nerves and propaganda campaign.”

“Over the past few years, we have seen that the United States imposing wars on the regional nations on a smaller scale, leaving hundreds of thousands of people killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and [occupied] Palestine,” he said.

“Should the enemy decide to launch an aggression on Iranian soil, it will face our all-out, crushing response, and we will not leave them until they are annihilated,” he underlined.

“So, they will not take such a risk, and their threats are just psychological warfare,” the commander said.

Iran has achieved numerous breakthroughs in the defense sector and reached self-sufficiency in producing various types of military equipment and systems.

In the meantime, Iran has announced time and again that its military might poses no threat, whatsoever, to other countries as Tehran’s defense doctrine is based on deterrence only.

'Iran ready to export air defense system'

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JNN 02 Jan 2011 : The commander of a major Iranian air defense base says the facility is mass producing anti-aircraft systems and is ready to export such systems.

“We can meet all our needs in the air defense sector by relying on domestic resources,” Ahmad Miqani, the commander of Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base, told Fars News Agency on Sunday.

“When we [design and] develop weapons, they will be mass produce, and we can export the surplus to other countries in deemed appropriate,” Cmdr. Miqani said.

He further described US threats against Iran as a “31-year-old war of nerves and propaganda campaign.”

“Over the past few years, we have seen that the United States imposing wars on the regional nations on a smaller scale, leaving hundreds of thousands of people killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and [occupied] Palestine,” he said.

“Should the enemy decide to launch an aggression on Iranian soil, it will face our all-out, crushing response, and we will not leave them until they are annihilated,” he underlined.

“So, they will not take such a risk, and their threats are just psychological warfare,” the commander said.

Iran has achieved numerous breakthroughs in the defense sector and reached self-sufficiency in producing various types of military equipment and systems.

In the meantime, Iran has announced time and again that its military might poses no threat, whatsoever, to other countries as Tehran’s defense doctrine is based on deterrence only.