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8/3/2011 Iran, Turkey, Iraq ink $200m deal to establish joint bank
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TEHRAN - Iran, Turkey, and Iraq have signed a memorandum of understanding to invest $200 million to establish a joint bank.
The MOU was inked on Thursday on the sidelines of the Tehran international construction fair (Confair 2011), the Fars News Agency reported.
The agreement is meant to facilitate capital flows in economic transactions between the three nations.
The central branch of the bank will be located in Tehran, but Turkey and Iraq will also be allowed to open branches.
On Friday on the sidelines of Confair 2011, the Turkish ambassador to Tehran said the value of trade between Iran and Turkey has surpassed $11 billion over the past year.
Ambassador Umit Yardim added that the two neighboring states are trying to increase the volume of their trade to $15 billion annually by the end of 2011, IRNA reported.
Yardim also said that Tehran and Ankara plan to elevate the value of their bilateral trade to $30 billion annually in the next five years “by using their regional capabilities.â€
Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi previously said that Iran and Iraq have agreed to make efforts to increase the volume of their bilateral trade to $20 billion in the near future.
“We agree to increase the value of mutual economic and trade exchanges, which is expected to reach $10 billion by the end of the current year, to $20 billion in the near future,†Rahimi told reporters in Baghdad on July 7, Press TV reported.
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8/14/2012 Two earthquakes in Iran kill more than 300 and injure 5,000 Overcrowded hospitals in northwest Iran struggled to cope with thousands of earthquake victims on Sunday as rescuers raced to reach remote villages after two powerful quakes killed nearly 300 people. |
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8/13/2012 Iranian wrestlers win 2 bronze medals Iranian wrestlers Ehsan Naser Lashgari and Komeil Qasemi have won bronze medals at the London 2012 Olympic Games. |
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8/6/2012 Iran to exhibit works by Gunther Uecker Iran is planning to exhibit works by modern German sculptor and installation artist Gunther Uecker at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts. The event will be held from September 16 to November 1, 2012 ... |
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8/4/2012 "When Artists Attack the King: Honoré Daumier and La Caricature, 1830-1835" opens at Cantor Arts Center STANFORD, CA.- Long before iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraiyeh was sentenced to 25 lashings for drawing a parliament member in a soccer jersey, 19th-century caricaturist Honoré Daumier and his colleagues ... |
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8/1/2012 Farhadi’s film takes N America by storm Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning film A Separation has taken the North America’s movie theaters by storm as the second top-grossing foreign-language film in 2012. |
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7/30/2012 London to exhibit installation by Iran’s Shirin Sabahi The Saatchi Gallery is slated to display an installation work created by the Iranian artist Shirin Sabahi in the British capital of London.
The event is part of the 2011 Contemporary Art Prize (CAP) ... |
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7/24/2012 US, Iranian team excavate Siraf A team of American and Iranian archaeologists has launched underwater excavations at the historical port of Siraf in the Persian Gulf. |
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7/22/2012 Mutatis Mutandis: Group show curated by Cathrine David opens at Vienna's Secession VIENNA.- Mutatis Mutandis brings together a number of works that explore the complexity of contemporary events, materiality, history, and memories, and propose possible re-presentations. Discontinuous ... |
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7/7/2012 The 2nd Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition [TADAEX] was opened on Friday, July 6th. The first day of The 2nd Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition [TADAEX] was opened among the unexpected attendance of the audience. |
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7/2/2012 UNESCO registers Isfahan Friday Mosque Isfahan’s Friday Mosque has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, making it the 14th Iranian site registered on the roll. The independent, 21-member World Heritage Committee announced the ... |
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