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NICOSIA -- The government of Iran has concealed $1 billion in surplus oil revenue according to a finding that challenges the administration of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Iranian National Audit Office said more than $1 billion in surplus oil income failed to be deposited in the state treasury.
The assertion, which could open the Iranian government to legal proceedings, concerned the oil revenue in the 2006-07 budget year.
"In the energy section of this report it has been mentioned that $1 billion of extra oil income has not been returned to the country's public treasury," Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani said. "The National Audit Office should seriously follow up the cases where there have been deviations from the implementation of the law or non-implementation of the law."
Larijani has called for an investigation into the findings of the audit.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, running for reelection in June 2009, has denied that his government misappropriated funds.
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Reformist ex-president Mohammad Khatami, who oversaw a thaw in ties with the West when in office from 1997 to 2005, on Sunday declared his intention to stand in Iran's upcoming presidential elections in a challenge that could see the ouster of the incumbent hardline government. How many times is he gonna announce? Continued on Page 47
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How many times is he gonna announce?
About as often as he screams Death to America!
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Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, in an interview released on Sunday, said Tehran is ready to talk to Washington "without pre-conditions" but is waiting for a "concrete" offer from the new US administration. Define "precondition."
"The dispute over the nuclear issue is not an unsolvable problem if we stop being entrenched in our positions," Larijani told the daily Suddeutsche Zeitung. "We are ready to talk without pre-conditions. But for that, we need a real starting point," the former nuclear negotiator said in the interview to be published on Monday."If the Americans are really willing to resolve the problems, then they must present their concept," he said.
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Good cop-bad cop routine. Play like the NORKS. Scream and shout, then act reasonable. Simple sine wave function. Only an idiot dem would not get the concept.
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The US should insist that any talks be held in Qom, and that are only delegate to those talks is Jimmy Carter. And that he should remain in Iran until there is no longer any chance for conflict between Iran, the US and Israel.
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