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	<title>Iraq Oil Report &#187; Iran</title>
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		<title>Diyala-Iran border crossing re-opens</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Border Crossing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Border Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diyala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mundhariya (Parvizkhan) border point opens today, after being closed by Iran after recent public protest and violence in Diyala. The crossing point, popular with traders and Iranian worshippers visiting holy Shiite sites in Iraq, was closed shortly after the Diyala Provincial Council demanded regional autonomy, last year on December 12.]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq, UAE warn over Hormuz tension</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Counterpart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dialogue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Escalation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hoshyar Zebari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Strait Of Hormuz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tension]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Arab Emirates and Iraq on Monday called for an end to escalating tensions over Iran's threat to close down the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a move that would affect their economies. "Iraq is against escalation and against dealing with these differences using military force but with dialogue," Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told reporters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strait of Hormuz showdown unlikely</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blockade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Credible Threat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Response]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Missiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Socgen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Societe Generale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strait Of Hormuz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be "relatively easy" for Iran to shut down the Strait of Hormuz and disrupt some 15 million b/d of crude flows but such an event is unlikely and any blockade would not last beyond two weeks, due to a US-led military response, Societe Generale said in a research report released Friday. "We believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Iraq ignites, Sadr seeks gains as peacemaker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ahmet Davuto?lu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Sadr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insurgency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Referendum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Repositioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shi'ite cleric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tensions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the end of the U.S. military's mission in Iraq last month, one of its fiercest longtime opponents is repositioning himself as a national leader. Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who waged a bloody insurgency against Americans here over a period of more than eight years, now presides over one of the country's most organized and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#039;s Sunir gets $72M power deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gas Units]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iranian Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kirkuk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Megawatts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministry Official]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Iraq]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Power Plant]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq signed a $72 million electricity deal with Iranian power development firm Sunir to expand a plant in northern Iraq by 320 megawatts to help feed the power-starved nation, an electricity ministry official said on Monday. The Iranian company will install two gas units, each with a production capacity of 160 megawatts, at Dibis power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq’s Shiites in no mood to embrace Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1980s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Troops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beneficiaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Furor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glimpse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Shiite City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iranian Cleric]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Open Office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ties]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iraqoilreport.com/?post_type=daily-brief&#038;p=6941</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When a senior Iranian cleric announced last month that he was planning to move to this holy Shiite city to open an office, the furor that erupted offered a glimpse into the future of a complicated relationship. As American troops leave Iraq, Iran certainly ranks high among the beneficiaries of their nearly nine-year presence. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sectarian fight redux feared looming</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baathists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heavyweights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraqi Leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuri al-Maliki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power And Influence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister Nuri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sectarian Tensions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Signs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rather than decreasing sectarian tensions, Iraqi leaders appear to be pouring fuel on the fire. In recent weeks the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has arrested more than 600 alleged former Baathists who are suspected of plotting against the central government. It could get even messier. The reigniting of sectarian tensions could easily draw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tribes help secure US troops&#039; exit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heading South]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kuwait]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Militants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With less than a month to go, the US military wants to minimise last-minute dangers and has paid tribal fighters cash to help provide a safe exit from Iraq after more than eight years of war. Much of the mighty US military machine is leaving Iraq by heading south to Kuwait down the main highway, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biden in surprise Iraq trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Forces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Troops In Iraq]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vice President Joe Biden arrived on a surprise visit to Iraq late Tuesday in a trip designed to chart a new relationship between the two countries after all American forces have left the country in just over a month. After nearly nine years of war, the U.S. now must navigate a future without American troops [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subsea cable to bring high-speed internet to Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cable Internet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qatar-based Gulf Bridge International (GBI) is completing the final stages of a submarine cable network that will give Iraq fast, reliable connections to other parts of the world for the first time, the network's operator said on Monday. The network, expected to be fully operational by the end of the year, consists of a 13,000 [...]]]></description>
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