HALLIBURTON Secretly Doing Business with Key Member of Iran’s Nuclear Team

[Bluebear]

Scandal-plagued Halliburton, the oil services company once headed by Vice President Dick was secretly working with one of Iran’s top nuclear scientists on natural gas related projects and, allegedly, selling the scientists’ oil company key components for a nuclear reactor, according to Halliburton sources with intimate knowledge of both companies’ business dealings.

Just last week a National Security Council report said Iran was a decade away from acquiring a nuclear bomb. That time frame could arguably have been significantly longer if Halliburton, which just reported a 284 percent increase in its fourth quarter profits due to its Iraq reconstruction contracts, was not actively providing the Iranian government with the financial means to build a nuclear weapon.

Now comes word that Halliburton, which has a long history of flouting U.S. law by conducting business with countries the Bush administration said has ties to terrorism, was working with Cyrus Nasseri, the vice chairman of Oriental Oil Kish, one of Iran’s largest private oil companies, on oil development projects in Tehran. Nasseri is also a key member of Iran’s nuclear development team.

“Nasseri, a senior Iranian diplomat negotiating with Europe over Iran's controversial nuclear program is at the heart of deals with US energy companies to develop the country's oil industry”, the Financial Times reported....

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=LEO20050805&articleId=806

[JRob]

1. wow, what a surprise... not.

[Bluebear]

2. I didn't even notice the article's typo...Vice President Dick!

[Erika]

3. World Corporatist Dick

and a traitor to America.

[Tigress DEM]

11. So we have Rove and Dick on treason and wasn't Hastert up on

something too? Campaign contributions from Turkey?

If the Treason fits, you must IMPEACH the bozo's.


Come to Washington - Sept 24-26. Bring your impeachment pettitions!

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[libodem]

4. Spooky

*tinfoil hat* alert....tie that with what Sybil Edmond knows and you have dirty money from 9/11 to campaign contributions.

[wli]

5. Halliburton a front for EHM's? Might explain the nuke threats

[vard28]

6. It's amazing...

... the shit pile just keeps getting bigger every day. I keep thinking that I will wake up tomorrow (and tomorrow, and tomorrow) and it will all hit the fan. Instead, there is just one more thing to add to the list of things these people do without worry of being exposed.

I'm dumbstruck, and beginning to get pretty darn worried about what's around the corner... :scared:

[Bluebear]

7. Belated welcome to DU

and I LOVE your sigline.

[FreedomAngel82]

9. It is amazing, isn't it??

I'm just not surprised by anything anymore. I've come to not hope for justice for these people. Only thing I can take comfort is that all these people will have their time with God when they die instead of being in paradise.

[FreedomAngel82]

8. I think this goes along with what Malloy mentioned on the show

about NYC and gas. Someone I believe sent an Email to him about this and supposivley they're going to "test" on NYC some type of gas program. Could they be helping to build this and then test it on the city of New York and they can spew some more "war on terror" nonsense and do another event? :scared:

[Tigress DEM]

10. So that's why the Weapons Grade Uranium Export restrictions got...

eased up in the Energy Bill. Don't these countries know better?

Dealing with Haliburton is like being Cesar at an Ides of March Party. It seems like a good time up until the knife is in your back and your supposed friend is on the other end of it.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. Exactly

With these people they use you and dump you when you've done your service for them. See John McCain, Rudy Guliani and now Katherine Harris. And I guess Bill Frist? He hasn't been in the spot light in a while and he isn't invited to "Justice Sunday" (or Just Us as some call it).

[Tigress DEM]

12. Let's call for Haliburton's assets be seized under Homeland Security...

Provisions and turned over to the Federal Government to help shore up Social Security and pay off some of the war debt.

[Hieronymus]

14. Isn't there a law against profiting from war?

Was that somehow recalled?:nuke:

[firefox]

16. I believe an executive order did away with it

Bu$h took care of anything like that. Iraq was raped by Executive Orders and those that profited were protected by Executive Order. Bush's War was all about war profiteering.

[fearnobush]

15. Dick say's its ok so long as his Iran dealings are threw his Cayman Subsid

July 22 2004 (Bloomberg)
"On Monday, Halliburton said in a regulatory filing that federal prosecutors subpoenaed documents in an investigation of whether the company violated U.S. laws by doing business in Iran, which the U.S. has blacklisted as a terrorist state. Halliburton said its operations in Iran are controlled by a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands and therefore not subject to U.S. prohibitions."

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Ohh, this one is even better - where's the fucking MSM on this???

Jan. 6 (Bloomberg)
Easing Sanctions

Cheney also lobbied for easing sanctions against Iran. In 1998, he spoke with then Senator Phil Gramm, a Texas Republican. The two discussed an exemption for Halliburton, according to Iran Brief, a newsletter published by Kenneth Timmerman, a former House Foreign Affairs Committee staff member who has testified before Congress on Iranian issues.

Cheney also planned to petition the State Department for a waiver, the newsletter said. A spokeswoman said Gramm was unavailable for comment. Cheney declined to comment.

Martin referred to statements Cheney made on NBC's Meet the Press in July 2000, in which he criticized U.S. sanctions against Iran, Libya and Azerbaijan.

``The way those have operated is to keep American firms out of those areas, but it hasn't done anything to change the behavior or the conduct of the country,'' Cheney said at the time. ``I also advocated that as chairman and CEO of Halliburton. That was my job.''

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[Old and In the Way]

17. The Party of War Profiteering and Treason.

I cannot think of a group of people more un-American than this administration. They need to be charged, tried, and imprisoned for the rest of their unnatural lives.