Carrefour will open stores in Bulgaria, India and Iran.
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The time thus squandered has also allowed Iran to diversify its customer base, bringing China and even democratic India in as major investors in Iran's state-controlled oil sector and purchasers of its products.
Although it has appeared in India, Pakistan and Indonesia, Iran's industrial complexes - including its nuclear installations - are its main victims.
The TAPI plan, to bring gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan and Pakistan into India, would keep Iran out and diminish Russian influence in Central Asia.
Several countries in their neighbourhood, notably Russia, India and Iran, regard them with the utmost suspicion.
Born in part, it appears, of an excessive CIA confidence in the effectiveness of various arms control regimes, George Tenet's agency had shown itself to have missed evidence of WMD-related developments in North Korea, India, Pakistan, Iran and the PRC.
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With the U.S.-dollar financing system out of bounds for Iranian companies, India and Iran have begun a barter system in which Tehran accepts Indian rupees in payment for crude oil.
The technology is now accepted in more than 20 countries, including India, China, South Africa and Iran.
In 2010, Iran-born Hiva Alizadeh, India-born Misbahuddin Ahmed and Montreal native Khurram Sher were arrested on charges of conspiring to facilitate terrorism in Canada and against Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.
Iran and Pakistan (now in a dangerous nuclear arms race with India) are recent customers.
Indeed, the argument that ratification would discourage North Korea, Iraq, Iran, India and Pakistan from acquiring nuclear weapons produced laughter in the Senate cloakroom.
India will pay 45% into Indian bank accounts opened by Iran and invest in Iranian infrastructure.
Netanyahu said Hezbollah and Iran have been trying to foment terrorism in countries that include Kenya, India and Cyprus, as well as in the United States, where an Iranian is accused of trying to kill the Saudi diplomat.
Do they think Arab states and Iran won't fund Muslim guerrilla movements in Pakistan, as well as in India itself?
Other regional powers, such as India, Iran and Russia, are said to be alarmed that Pakistan is putting itself in the driving seat in the Afghan negotiations.
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And experts don't see much relief on the way anytime soon, as geopolitical concerns in Iran and Iraq combine with steadily rising demand from the growing economies of China and India.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pointed to Iran, saying it has been behind a string of recent attempted attacks on Israelis in Thailand, India and Georgia, among others.
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