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Iran group NPC in running to buy venture

LONDON, Oct 15 ( IranMania) - The Iranian petrochemicals group NPC and two financial consortia are in the running to buy plastics company Basell, a joint venture between BASF and Shell, for three to four billion eurosbillion dollars), the Financial Times Deutschland reported Friday.

NPC, which is owned by the Iranian oil ministry, is just one of a list of strategic firms in the Middle East eyeing Basell, the newspaper said, quoting banking sources.
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Basell is a 50-50 joint venture between BASF, the world's biggest chemicals maker, and the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell. It has annual sales of six billion euros and a workforce of some 6,500. It is the world's leading maker of polyolefins, plastics that used in a variety of sectors, such as the food, agriculture and auto industries.

Na das wäre doch mal ein guter Kauf ! :daumen:

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Iran's hardline MPs try to block Rafsanjani

LONDON, Oct 15 ( IranMania) - Several hardline Iranian deputies have proposed a law that would stop those over 70 years of age from standing in next year's presidential election -- a move that would block a comeback by powerful former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, AFP reported.

According to the Shargh newspaper, deputies have already begun drawing up a text and could present it in 2005.

"The current law only states that Iranians over the age of 30 can be a candidate, but does not provide an upper age limit. We would like to correct that," conservative MP Reza Talai-Nik was quoted as saying.

"In the past 25 years, no person over 70 has held an executive post," he added.

Contacted by AFP, the MP said the text "has not yet been finalised", and added the age limit could be set somewhere between 70 and 75. He also revealed that "some politicians are opposed to such a law".

Conservatives who now control the parliament, or Majlis, used age as one of their campaign platforms in the general election, calling for the "older generation to make way for the new generation."

The Shargh report did not say if the text was specifically aimed at Rafsanjani -- who will celebrate his 71st birthday next year, is seen as a pragmatic conservative and who has been openly mulling standing in next June's polls.
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Also Rafsanjani wäre garantiert ne Nummer zu heftig. Schön, daß die Iraner das auch so sehen...