Topic: Bandar Abbas

TEHRAN, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Iran sacked a top official in the Oil Ministry in what is widely seen as a move by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to increase his control over the energy sector.

BANDAR ABBAS, Iran, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- At lease six people were killed Wednesday in a 6.1 magnitude earthquake that struck near Iran's southern port city of Bandar Abbas, state media reported.

UNITED NATIONS, July 17 (UPI) -- Tons of precursor chemicals used to produce heroin were seized in Afghanistan, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said.

WASHINGTON, July 7 (UPI) -- Resolutions working their way through both houses of Congress would require a naval blockade to impose its draconian measures against Iran. Tehran’s military chiefs threatened “blitzkrieg” tactics if the Gulf (25 percent of the world’s daily oil supply) came under attack. But at the United Nations, Iran’s foreign minister talked compromise. Talk about talking appeared to be Iran’s way of muzzling talk about war.

TEHRAN, May 27 (UPI) -- Iran has raised its oil refining capacity by 60,000 barrels a day with development at the Bandar Abbas refinery, the deputy oil minister said.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- President Bush's Air Force One was still airborne on its way back from a six-country, eight-day tour of Middle Eastern capitals when agreements and understandings began to unravel.

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TEHRAN, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A recent wave of whale and dolphin deaths off the coast of Iran is being blamed on high pollution levels and a July oil spill.

KazMunayGas acquires stake in Rompetrol; Iran to begin new set of projects in south; Sinopec refinery on schedule

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