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3 Iranian truck drivers abducted in Syria

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23-05-2012 | 09:55

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Iran’s charge d’affaires in Damascus confirmed on Wednesday that armed groups kidnapped three Iranian truck drivers in Syria after entering the country through Turkey.

Meanwhile, amateur video posted online by Syrian activists showed intense shelling of the central, rebel-held town of Rastan and the city of Homs.

The violence came a day after United Nations peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous toured Homs, the flashpoint of the uprising, and met UN observers in the city as well as the governor.

Due to sanctions imposed in September which banned crude oil imports from the country, Syrian oil minister Sufian Alao said on Wednesday.

Syrian state news agency SANA quoted him as saying that the loss was a result of "unjust European and American sanctions and impediments."

Speaking at a news conference in the capital Damascus, Alao said Syria had not exported any crude oil in the first quarter of 2012.

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