Foreign Correspondence

[Amaunet]

Those Iranians they really know how to crash a bash.

The guests are arriving. The race for oil and gas in Africa is on in earnest. The United States must vie for hydrocarbons not only with China and other countries but now Iran.

All of the components of another Iraq are present at our new party in Africa as al Qaeda and a horde of terrorists set up camp around unsightly rigs and the United States builds a military presence while profoundly worrying about the well-being of Africa amidst heavy competition for the oil and gas they crave.
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Note, for an African ally Iran has singled out Nigeria who very recently and through a bizarre misunderstanding with Pakistan almost found themselves the proud owners of nuclear weapons much to their chagrin.
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-Am

Expansion of ties with Africa a priority for Iran

Thursday, March 04, 2004 - ©2004 IranMania.com


Tehran, March 3 (IranMania) -- According to Iran's State News Agency (IRNA) Iran's Minister of Cooperatives Ali Sufi said expansion of economic, political and cultural ties with African states is a priority for Iran.
Sufi told The Nigerian President Olusengun Obasanjo that detente is the pivot of of Iran's foreign policy and it is necessary for Iran and Nigeria to promote mutual cooperation at the international level.
Calling as "important" Iran-Nigeria cooperation within the UN, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the south-south group of states, Sufi stressed the need to hold commercial fairs of Iranian goods in Nigeria.
He said regular holding of trade fairs should be taken as a suitable tools for transfer of technology and experience between the two sides.
Highlighting existing capacities for expansion of industrial, economic and trade ties between Iran and Nigeria, Sufi said Iran is ready to export technical and engineering services to Nigeria to promote mutual trade and commercial ties.
Sufi is in Nigeria to attend the first joint commission meeting of Iran and Nigeria.

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