India, Pakistan and Iran are likely to meet next month in Tehran to resolve differences over the $7.5-billion gas pipeline that was first proposed in 1994. Petroleum Minister Murli Deora met Iran's Oil Minister, Gholam Hosein Nozari, on the sidelines of a meeting of the world's oil producers and consumers in Jeddah on Sunday, and agreed to the proposal for a trilateral meeting in Tehran next month.
Forward movement on the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project has failed to enhance the UPA government's comfort level with the Left parties even though they have welcomed it.
Pakistan has sent a proposal to China asking it to join the $7.5-billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project if New Delhi pulls out of the venture. The Chinese government has submitted a preliminary report to Pakistan seeking more information on the project. President Pervez Musharraf had invited China to join the project at a meeting with his counterpart Hu Jintao.
Iranian and Western wildlife experts are working together to save rare cheetahs from extinction in this arid, mountainous region, despite a nuclear row between their governments.
Iran said on Tuesday it would continue enriching uranium, defying efforts by major powers to pressure Tehran into stopping such work. The EU's top diplomat on Saturday presented Tehran with a package of economic benefits to try and persuade it to stop its nuclear program, which the West fears could lead to a nuclear weapon. "We have repeatedly said that enrichment is our red line and we should enjoy this technology. The work will be continued," deputy foreign minister Alireza Sheikhattar told reporters, according to the state news agency IRNA.
Sujay Mehdudia India, Iran, Pakistan yet to discuss key issues LNG, IPI pipeline deal inter-linked Pranab scheduled to visit Tehran on NEW DELHI: With India, Pakistan and Iran failing to resolve their differences, the 45-day deadline to sort out the "safety and security issues' concerning the $ 7.4-billion gas pipeline project has expired.
The block has one billion barrels of oil also National Iranian Oil will market the product After the successful discovery of crude oil in three wells of Farsi block in Iran, a consortium led by ONGC Videsh (OVL) and comprising Indian Oil Corporation and Oil India Limited (OIL) have submitted a proposal to invest about $3 billion to bring into production 12.8 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas reserves.
Iran may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make nuclear arms, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Monday in an unusually strongly worded report. The tone of the language suggesting that Tehran continues to stonewall the IAEA revealed a glimpse of the frustration felt by agency investigators stymied in their attempts to gain full answers to suspicious aspects of Iran's past nuclear activities.
