Press TV
March 24, 2018
Afghanistan says Iran has asked to extract iron ore from a mine in Herat but the two neighbors have yet to reach an agreement on where to process it.
Iran wants to transfer the extracted materials to an ore processing plant on its soil across the border but Afghanistan is opposed to the idea, Tolo News TV quoted acting minister of mines Nargis Nehan as saying Saturday.
“We have a policy based on which extracted mineral resources should be processed inside Afghanistan,” the broadcaster quoted her as saying.
The Sangan mine which Iran is interested to invest in is shared by the two countries but Tehran has already started tapping its part of the reserves.
“Iran is interested to extract the mineral resources in Afghanistan as it needs raw materials for its machinery,” Nehan said.
Earlier this month, Iran’s Ambassador in Kabul Mohammad Reza Bahrami said the two countries had started talks on Iranian investment in Afghanistan’s mining sector.
“We have held talks with Afghanistan’s government on investment in mines in the country, particularly the Sangan mine,” he said.
Sangan has been branded as the “South Pars” of Iran’s steel industry, drawing a comparison with a giant gas reservoir that straddles the territorial waters of Iran and Qatar.
According to state mines and metals holding company IMIDRO chairman Mehdi Karbasian, of the 2.7 billion tonnes of iron ore reserves in Iran, one billion tonnes are in Sangan which has already used up $1 billion of investment to operate.
In 2015, Karbasian said five domestic consortia and another consortium comprised of two Chinese and four Iranian firms had undertaken to provide investment.
Some of the purchases for the project were made from Italian foundry equipment maker Danieli SpA before the Europeans intensified sanctions on Iran in 2011.
After the lifting of the sanctions in 2016, Finland’s engineering group Outotec was awarded an 11 million euro contract by China’s Shangdong Province Metallurgical Engineering Co (SDM) for the delivery of the dewatering process equipment to the second phase of the Sangan iron concentrate project.
Interest in Afghanistan
Afghanistan – a landlocked country with an economy worth about $20 billion a year – is rich in mineral resources and its mining sector has aroused a lot of interest even though much of the basic data dates back to the Soviet occupation in the 1980s.
A United States Geological Survey study has estimated potential value of Afghanistan’s deposits as much as $1 trillion. However, latest geological studies by Afghan officials hint at figures three times larger.
Gold, silver and platinum are some of the precious elements identified in Afghanistan but the country has also been labeled as the potential “Saudi Arabia of lithium” thanks to deposits of the raw material used in phone and electric car batteries.
Furthermore, the country has significant quantities of iron ore, uranium, zinc, tantalum, bauxite, coal, natural gas and copper which is increasingly becoming rare across the globe.
Last August, Reuters said US President Donald Trump was eyeing Afghanistan’s mineral wealth to help pay for a 16-year war that have already cost $117 billion.
The US is not alone in seeking a piece of the cake in Afghanistan. Last year, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said his country was interested in Afghanistan’s large deposits of lithium.
China acquired a 30-year lease on the Mes Aynak copper mine for around $3 billion in 2008 but the project has been plagued by delays due to contractual wrangling.
*I true; then it means that the Iranians will be joining to take full advantage of the highlly-profit “war-bonanzas”.
Yes:
HIGHLY PROFITABLE “WAR BONANZAS”.
If it is the case;
then
we
must all
pray earnestly
for the proper leadership skills in Islamic nationalism
Typing error:
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Meant to say proper leaderships in Islamic “countries”.
The Western warmonger will then be able to radicalize both sides under the name of; so called, “Shia and Sunni” false doctrines to creat among all Muslims.
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You can easily see the evidence of that, already occurring, all over the Islamic countries.
Meant to say, “creat tensions and animosities” among regular folks in Islamic countries.
BETTER BE CAUTIOUS
BEFOR
IT IS TOO LATE !
THE ONLY SOLUTION
IS
COMMON GROUNDS.
THE COMMON GROUNDS FOR MUTUAL RESPECT
AND
ABOVE ALL FOR THE SAFETY OF REGULAR FOLKS WHO MAKE UP THE MAJORITY.
The war mongers are encouraging and/or turning Muslims against each other- it must be stopped.
.
Otherwise; all our good regular folks
will definately suffer.
MUST HELP FIND A
PEACEFUL ENVIRONMENT
FOR ALL !
.
OTHERWISE, SENSELESS
CYCLES OF HATRED AND DESTRUCTION
WILL BE IMPOSED AS THE ORDER OF THE DAY
ON REGULAT INNOCENT GOOD FOLKS.ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
“ANOTHER
PERFECT MODEL
OF
SELF-SUSTAINED STATE OF ANARCHY IS PEEPETUATED IN THE
COUNTRY OF CONGO IN AFRICA.
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They don’t give a damn- as long as their interest are intact and not threatened..
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The whole population
is
massively oppressed.
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All the neighbors of
Afghanistan
are kept
directly or/and indirectly
controlled and humiliated-
*THERE IS NO PRIDE
IN
SLAVERY !
THE PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN CAN EXPOLIT AND DEVRLOP THEIR OWN MINING INFRASTRUCTURES- THEY DO NOT NEED ANOTHER COUNTRY TO COME IN AT TGE ORDERS OF INVADERS TO EXPLOITE AS THE THIRD PARTY EXPLOITER.
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The •parasitic forces of invaders and their camp-followers
would do anything to keep all “goofy”
involved neighbors fed, happy and satisfied on expense of regular folks of Afghanistan.
THE GRAND IDEA IS TO BUILD UP AFGHANISTAN AS A
BANANA REPUBLIC
UNDER STRICTLY TIGHT BORDER CONTROLS OF NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES WHOSE LEADERS THEN WOULD BE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ECONOMICALLY CONTROLLED LIKE “LITTLE STOOGES”.
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Under the above possible terms and condition
the people of Afghanistan would be left at the mercy of all sorts if parasites and vultures as the Center of commercial and industrial activities of “WESTERN-IMPOSED BONANZAS”.
As you see, the whole region will be then turned into an economically-enslaved zone and consequently; functional at disgraceful level and status for all people of the region and as an affront and insults to our
“COMMON ISLAMIC HERITAGE” !
YOU STUPID INVADERS
WITH YOUR
STUPID
DYSFUNCTIONAL
IDES !