Reply #26: Here's a Newsweek article about the Hallibuton subsidiary/Iran deal [View All]

[magellan]

The article was updated in 2005 but originally appeared online in 2003. Among other things it explains the loopholes Halliburton used to get its subsidiary HPSL into Iran.

There's probably some link between Halliburton/HPSL's $30-35 million oil operation in Iran and the secret port deal. It's very likely a compelling factor in BushCo's desire to wage war in Iran. For instance, I wonder if Halliburton/HPSL's office in Tehran has been allowed to remain open since crazy man Ahmadinejad took control last year...?

IMO, no one who voted for Bush** should be surprised by the port deal, or has the right to complain about it. If you voted for Bush** you let this happen with your blind support of a party which is as corrupt as the day is long, all to serve your own ignorance-ridden selfish interests. And the fact so many of you still think this is ALL Bush**'s administration has done wrong only furthers the point.

Business As Usual?

Halliburton’s CEO says his company is pulling out of Iran. But a corporate subsidiary is still going ahead with a deal to develop Tehran’s natural gas fields

WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek
Updated: 6:10 p.m. ET Feb. 16, 2005

Feb. 16 - Only weeks before Halliburton made headlines by announcing it was pulling out of Iran—a nation George W. Bush has labeled part of the “axis of evil”—the Texas-based oil services firm quietly signed a major new business deal to help develop Tehran’s natural gas fields.

Halliburton’s new Iran contract, moreover, appears to suggest a far closer connection with the country’s hard-line government than the firm has ever acknowledged.

The deal, diplomatic sources tell NEWSWEEK, was signed with an Iranian oil company whose principals include Sirus Naseri, Tehran’s chief international negotiator on matters relating to the country’s hotly-disputed nuclear enrichment program—a project the Bush administration has charged is intended to develop nuclear weapons.

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