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Germany, Iran

‘Iran denies passage to Merkel’s plane’

NOVANEWS   The new Airbus A340-300 of the German government is waiting at Berlin’s Tegel airport, May 30, 2011. The German government says Iran has refused to give permission to the plane carrying German Chancellor Angela Merkel to fly over the country, a report says. Merkel’s plane was forced to circle over Turkey for about two hours on Tuesday before it touched down in New Delhi, India, as it was not allowed access to Iran’s airspace, Germany’s Deutsche Welle news agency reported. After an hour of negotiations mediated by Turkey, Tehran granted the German chancellor’s plane permission to cross. Had the dispute continued any longer, the Airbus 340 carrying Merkel would have been forced to stop in Turkey for refueling. A second German plane with four German government mini...
China, Germany, India, Iran, Russia, Turkey

Iran: Choosing reliable trade partners

NOVANEWS     In order to fight US-Israel sponsored UNSC sanctions – the Islamic Republic has to be very careful in maintaining its trade with foreign countries based on past experience. Currently, Tehran’s leading trade partners are China, Russia, Turkey, Germany and India. All these countries have been under Washington’s pressure to boycott trade dealings with Iran especially in its oil and energy sectors. Russia and India, in the past have been found notoriously unreliable trade partners. Tehran accepted Moscow its trade partner as result of its needs for modern technology which was denied to the country by Zionist Occupied Western governments after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Moscow, bankrupted as result of its mislead Afghan military adventure, was looking for a reliabl...