Halliburton Charged With Selling Nuclear Technology to Iran

[No Exit]

Halliburton charged with selling nuclear technology to Iran

(From "Censored Stories: The 10 stories the nation's mainstream news media ignored, neglected or missed last year", 9-14-06, by Sarah Phelan. This one is No. 2 on the list of 10 stories.)

Halliburton, the notorious U.S. energy company, sold key nuclear-reactor components to a private Iranian oil company called Oriental Oil Kish as recently as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent U.S. sanctions, journalist Jason Leopold reported on Globalresearch.ca, the Web site of a Canadian research group. He cited sources intimate with the business dealings of Halliburton and Kish.

The story is particularly juicy, because Vice President Dick Cheney, who now claims to want to stop Iran from getting nukes, was president of Halliburton in the mid-1990s, at which time he may have advocated business dealings with Iran, in violation of U.S. law.

Leopold contended that the Halliburton-Kish deals have helped Iran become capable of enriching weapons-grade uranium.

Leopold's filed his report in 2005, when Iran's new hard-line government was rounding up relatives and business associates of former Iranian president and defeated mullah presidential candidate Hashemi Rafsanjani, amid accusations of widespread corruption in Iran's oil industry.

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http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=oid:86394

My first thought was: JASON LEOPOLD? Can I trust this story... because, isn't Jason Leopold the same guy who turned out to be wrong when he insisted that Karl Rove was already indicted? That was a few mere months ago...BUT WAIT! This Halliburton story by Leopold was originally published August 5, 2005. That was BEFORE the debacle involving Leopold's "erroneous" claim that Rove had already been indicted.

My theory: Leopold published something embarrassing to the Cheney/Halliburton cabal. As a result, Leopold was set up by his sources for his "Rove-already-indicted" story. Result of that Rove story: Leopold discredited. IOW, seems to me someone had motivation for setting Leopold up to make him put his foot in it. And this August 5, 2005, story about Halliburton certainly would have provided motivation for Cheney/Halliburton to want to make Leopold look like a discredited liar.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Interesting theory on Leopold.

It maes sense, right out of the Rove playbook. Reminiscent of Hatfield, and for that matter, Dan Rather & the AWOL story.

[No Exit]

2. Thank you--and y'know, I think Rove's connections with Cheney are

downplayed. While I guess there would always be some competitiveness btw a president's staff and a vice president's staff, I begin to think that Rove does far more work for Cheney than I previously imagined.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Well, Bush is an EMPTY slimebucket, while both Rove & Cheney

have those wonderful streaks of nasty, reptilian sociopathic brilliance. Kinda natural they'd be drawn together. They both speak the same language: Pit viper.

[texpatriot2004]

3. Dick has had his evil hand in it nm

[Divine Discontent]

4. K&R

I'm stunned, it's like (like he says!) they want to give everything these people need to be treachorous or capable of causing us harm so we can go stop them militarily, thus keeping the industrial military complex alive (that means, endless wars so profit is derived endlessly, for anyone not familiar with the term). We all gonna march if we don't win back what appears to be a huge democratic swell of support?????

[dansolo]

21. Why do you think that Bush allowed Saddam to stay in power?

They were keeping him around to justify a future invasion.

[bigbrother05]

6. kick

[fujiyama]

7. There is little reason

for me not to believe this, considering Halliburton, under Cheney, also did business with Saddam.

But Leopold is a shitty reporter, and was even before this mess with Truthout. I'd love for this to be verified by someone with a history of more credibility.

[leesa]

15. This is not 'new' news. I think there was a lawsuit in France about it.

It was in international news quite a lot. I think if you google it and look around you will find a lot of information.

[fujiyama]

22. There's nothing especially new

You are correct. Now that I think about it, I remember hearing something about it.

[tblue]

8. Well, even Fox News & CBS pretty much concur

I think Leopold got it right this time.

FOXNEWS.COM
Cheney Pushed for More Trade With Iran
October 09, 2004

WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney, who has called Iran "the world's leading exporter of terror," pushed to lift U.S. trade sanctions against Tehran while chairman of Halliburton Co. in the 1990s. And his company's offshore subsidiaries also expanded business in Iran.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134836,00.html


CBSNEWS.COM
Doing Business With The Enemy
Are U.S. Firms Doing Business In Nations That Support Terrorism?
Aug. 29, 2004
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/22/60minutes/main595214.shtml

[cui bono]

9. k & r

[SpiralHawk]

10. Dick "Five Deferments" Cheney is not only a Chickehawk war profiteer

He may well qualify as a traitor against the United States of America...

[dapper]

11. K&R

K&R

[elehhhhna]

12. They sell this crap theought their Cayman Island subsidiary -- which

is a mail drop...with not one, single employee assigned on the island.

[elehhhhna]

13. The story,, here: (It's worse than you think...) K&REC'D!

Halliburton's Cayman subsidiary doing business with member of Iran's nuclear team

NEW YORK, USA: WNY Media Network, September 25, 2006 - Scandal-plagued Halliburton 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.

Halliburton was working with Cyrus


Halliburton 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."*******************!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!

Oriental Oil Kish dealings with Halliburton became public knowledge in January when the company announced that it had subcontracted parts of the South Pars natural gas drilling project to Halliburton Products and Services, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Halliburton that is registered in the Cayman Islands.

http://www.caymannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000063/006370.htm

[Atman]

14. They face stiff penalties, including a $90bil no-bid contract from BushCo

:shrug:

As if anything will actually happen to them. Unka Dick is watching!

.

[AzDar]

16. Kick n/t

[bigbrother05]

17. kick

[treestar]

18. Who cares? See if somebody else can confirm it, then.

If there is any real evidence of this, it's very bad material for the bushbots.

[robinlynne]

19. Isn't that treason? puishable by death?

[hijinx87]

20. anyone that believes a story from this source without confirmation . . . .

deserves the disappointment that follows.