Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran

[BornagainDUer]

Does it strike you as odd that Cheney's company Halliburton sells the nukes to Iran and then turns around and tries to get the US in a war over the issue?

Talk about a self-perpetuated profit machine.


Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
Source:

Global Research.ca, August 5, 2005
Title: “Halliburton Secretly Doing Business With Key Member of Iran’s Nuclear Team”
Author: Jason Leopold

Faculty Evaluator: Catherine Nelson
Student Researchers: Kristine Medeiros and Pla Herr

According to journalist Jason Leopold, sources at former Cheney company Halliburton allege that, as recently as January of 2005, Halliburton sold key components for a nuclear reactor to an Iranian oil development company. Leopold says his Halliburton sources have intimate knowledge of the business dealings of both Halliburton and Oriental Oil Kish, one of Iran’s largest private oil companies.

Additionally, throughout 2004 and 2005, Halliburton worked closely with Cyrus Nasseri, the vice chairman of the board of directors of Iran-based Oriental Oil Kish, to develop oil projects in Iran. Nasseri is also a key member of Iran’s nuclear development team. Nasseri was interrogated by Iranian authorities in late July 2005 for allegedly providing Halliburton with Iran’s nuclear secrets. Iranian government officials charged Nasseri with accepting as much as $1 million in bribes from Halliburton for this information.

Oriental Oil Kish dealings with Halliburton first became public knowledge in January 2005 when the company announced that it had subcontracted parts of the South Pars gas-drilling project to Halliburton Products and Services, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Halliburton that is registered to the Cayman Islands. Following the announcement, Halliburton claimed that the South Pars gas field project in Tehran would be its last project in Iran. According to a BBC report, Halliburton, which took thirty to forty million dollars from its Iranian operations in 2003, “was winding down its work due to a poor business environment.”

However, Halliburton has a long history of doing business in Iran, starting as early as 1995, while Vice President Cheney was chief executive of the company. Leopold quotes a February 2001 report published in the Wall Street Journal, “Halliburton Products and Services Ltd., works behind an unmarked door on the ninth floor of a new north Tehran tower block. A brochure declares that the company was registered in 1975 in the Cayman Islands, is based in the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Dubai and is “non-American.” But like the sign over the receptionist’s head, the brochure bears the company’s name and red emblem, and offers services from Halliburton units around the world.” Moreover mail sent to the company’s offices in Tehran and the Cayman Islands is forwarded directly to its Dallas headquarters.

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[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Cue the rabid...

Leopold haters. Not that he hasn't earned some of it, mind you.

[BornagainDUer]

8. I was worried about that when I posted, but the facts stand

by themselves here.

[bahrbearian]

2. Kind of the same way we knew tha Saddam had Chemical Weapon

We sold them the material to build them.

[hippiechick]

3. ... making money on both ends of the game ...

... raking in a buttload of money SELLING the arms, then another buttload of money INVADING the country to destroy the arms.


War profiteering at its finest. :mad:

[133724]

9. Don't forget the boat load rebuilding....

and then they start all over again...

next target Iran....

after that syria...

then the good ole US of A...

[BornagainDUer]

10. You left out the profits from rebuilding the destroyed country.

This needs to get to Waxman.

[firefox_fan]

4. Is that how they know?

[KansDem]

5. Was this what Plame was working on?

I had read that she was outed to stop investigations into the movement of WMDs in the middle east.

[seemslikeadream]

17. American Judas

http://americanjudas.blogspot.com/

American Judas 2nd Edition: INVESTIGATE CHENEY & UNRAVEL THE CABAL

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. And what about Valerie Plame?

Wasn't she actually investigating corporations that were improperly doing business with Iran? Which would give Cheney an added motive to out her and put an end to her cover.

[BornagainDUer]

7. I saw something to that effect here at DU. It sure makes sense.

[RC]

11. BINGO! She was.

The real reason she was outed and her front company was destroyed.

[polichick]

12. How convenient that Halliburton has left the country...

The company will never be held responsible for any of its actions. Cheney has probably purchased his Dubai get-away too!

[TroubleMan]

13. Dick Cheney as SecDef of bush 1 leveled a lot of Iraq, then made a killing rebuilding it as CEO of

Halliburton.

Now he wants to do the same with Iran. There's a special place in hell for guys like that.

[BornagainDUer]

14. Back in the early 90's Halliburton wrote the specs and logistics

for the present war in Iraq. As it turned out Halliburton ended up being the only company "qualified" to do the job.

[L. Coyote]

15. kick

[Karenina]

16. Das ist BIDNESS!

Und BIDNESS RULES!

[seemslikeadream]

18. Essentially, there is only one investigation

Essentially, there is only one investigation – a very big one, an all-inclusive one. Completely by chance, I, a lowly translator, stumbled over one piece of it. But I can tell you there are a lot of people involved, a lot of ranking officials, and a lot of illegal activities that include multi-billion-dollar drug-smuggling operations, black-market nuclear sales to terrorists and unsavory regimes, you name it. And of course a lot of people from abroad are involved. It's massive. So to do this investigation, to really do it, they will have to look into everything… That's the beauty of it. You can start from the AIPAC angle. You can start from the Plame case. You can start from my case. They all end up going to the same place, and they revolve around the same nucleus of people. There may be a lot of them, but it is one group. And they are very dangerous for all of us.

-Sibel Edmonds

Sibel Edmonds and other Whistleblowers Group
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=344