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Iran Plans to Set Up Antarctic Scientific Research Base
Tehran, January 10 (KCNA) -- Iran is planning to set up a scientific research base in the Antarctic within three years.

Recently, the director of the Oceanography Research Institute of Iran said that the country will build an icebreaker and study technologies of iceberg traction, arctic clothes manufacture and ice boring for the purpose of scientific researches and transport.

The establishment of the base is to take six stages. The first stage is the organization of the Antarctic Research Center.

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