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Iran News Jan 3rd, 2005 - 05:11:17 Iran VP due in Uzbekistan Tuesday Jan 3, 2005, 05:10 First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref, heading a 60-member political and economic delegation, will pay a three-day official visit to Uzbekistan beginning on Tuesday. Iran's Ambassador to Uzbekistan Mohammad Fat'hali said here Monday, this would be the first visit by a high-ranking Iranian delegation to Uzbekistan since the country's independence. He said Aref and his accompanying delegation will hold talks with the Uzbek President, Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Head of the institute for foreign relations. They will also visit the cities of Samarkand and Bukhara. The Iranian Ambassador added that Tehran and Tashkent will sign several memoranda of understanding on preferential tariffs, acceptance of the standards of each other, transportation, library and petrochemistry. Fat'hali noted that the caretaker of Roads and Transportation Ministry, Commerce Minister, Deputy Foreign Minister, Managing Director of the National Iranian Petrochemistry Company and Iran's special envoy for the Caspian Sea affairs Mehdi Safari will ac company the first Vice-President in his Tashkent visit. Aref will leave Bukhara for Tehran on Thursday. © Iranian.ws http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_5229.shtml Iran News Jan 2nd, 2005 - 10:08:01 20 tons of narcotics seized in Iran Jan 2, 2005, 10:01 Local Police personnel nabbed 20 tons of illicit drugs in east of Iran since the beginning of the Iranian calendar year of 1383 (started March 20, 2004), a local police official said here Saturday. The seized drugs consisted of 15 tons of opium, 2.5 tons of hashish and 2.5 tons of morphine, Hossein Mahmoudi said. He added that during the same period, police arrested 1,054 drug-traffickers in several anti-drug operations. Police also confiscated 100 weapons and some ammunition in this connection. Meanwhile, police seized seven tons of opium and one ton of heroin in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan. Iran is credited with intercepting 80 percent of the opium and 90 percent of the morphine seized worldwide. However, despite its unceasing anti-drug efforts, Iran has remained a key route for southwest Asian drugs on their way to lucrative markets in Europe and Persian Gulf countries. © Iranian.ws -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
