JASON LEOPOLD: Halliburton Sold Iranian Co Key Nuclear Parts, Sources Say

[Tace]

By Jason Leopold -- World News Trust

Scandal-plagued Halliburton -- the oil services company once headed by Vice President Cheney -- sold an Iranian oil development company key components for a nuclear reactor, say Halliburton sources with intimate knowledge into both companies’ business dealings.

Halliburton was secretly working at the time with one of Iran’s top nuclear program officials on natural gas related projects and sold the components in April to the official's oil development company, the sources said.

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, whose miltary unit just reported a 284 percent increase in its second quarter profits due to its Iraq reconstruction contracts, was not actively providing the Iranian government with the means to build a nuclear weapon.

With Iran's new hardline government now firmly in place, Iranian officials have rounded up relatives and close business associates of Iran's former President and defeated mullah presidential candidate Hashemi Rafsanjani, alleging the men were involved in widespread corruption of Iran's oil industry, specifically tied to the country's business dealings with Halliburton.

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http://worldnewstrust.org/modules/AMS/article.php?storyid=919

[AlamoDemoc]

1. No Kidding!

quick lets bomb the place before the AIEA finds out :sarcasm:

[peacetalksforall]

2. What the xxxx is going on here? Who are the traitors in this

country?

[seemslikeadream]

3. Mr. Fitzgerald could you please hurry up?

Someone needs to stop this guy.

[Fridays Child]

20. And please, PLEASE stay off of small airplanes.

:scared:

[Athame]

37. I think in Fitzgerald's case the advice should be

Stay off ALL airplanes! The demons would not stop at bringing down a commercial airliner to get such a big fish.

[DELUSIONAL]

22. Just what I was thinking -- reason for Plame outing?

Because her cover company and people she was working with were connecting the dots -- and Cheney's company was going to come out looking like the evil monster we all assume it to be.

[leveymg]

4. I wish Jason had given some credit to our own Robert Paulsen,

whose "American Judas" earlier covered much of the same ground. Read it, if you haven't; it's a masterpiece.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2178477#2180220

[Old and In the Way]

11. Indeed, Mr. Levey

That article underscores what's been a duplicitous decades long business plan by Halliburton to war profiteer.

Like Carlyle Group, they've made a cynical, cyclical-proof business in construction/destruction/reconstruction. The new Republican business model.

[Joanne98]

18. Chaos Capitalism. Sell them WMD, bomb them because they have WMD

Then get the stupid tax payers to pay you to rebuild the country in a never ending version of The Marshall Plan! People who don't understand this simple concept shouldn't be allowed to vote. It's TOO SIMPLE!

[leveymg]

34. People who have perfected this business model will burn in hell.

There just aren't adequate legal mechanisms to deal with this. But, I would welcome an opportunity to serve on a Grand Jury. Give me a call Mr. Fitzgerald - I have a few ideas.

[Tace]

12. I'll Point Out Your Post To Jason

He appreciates feedback. chrs

[TroglodyteScholar]

5. WOW, aiding a state sponsor of terrorism....

Shouldn't a lot of people at Halli be facing extreme scrutiny about now?

[Demeter]

6. WHEN did they sell these parts?

[Tace]

10. Jason Says The Parts Were Sold In April

It's in the second graf. chrs

[Vickers]

7. Well then, how 'bout a big honkin' Congressional Jefferson MLK Award

for them, huh? Well done, lads! :sarcasm:

[Amonester]

8. Is this all over Corporate Sold Media as of yet??

Guess just asking the question gives the automatic answer...

No kidding! :shrug:

[Tace]

39. Not Yet -- But I Can Tell You This Story Is Hot In The Blogosphere

The traffic on the WNT site is up ten-fold the last 30 hours because of this story.

Dozens of sites have linked to the story. What's really cool is that many of the sites are not political sites. There's a knitting site, a pro-sports site, several techie sites, a site for guys building hot-rods, etc.

[Amonester]

41. Alright! Good find, thanks for the info.

On a side note, it's mind boggling to think about the number of real criminal investigations that could be launched in order to restore the proper conduct of Justice (ie. with honesty being their only sound base). The courts could be packed for years...

[Cha]

9. No wonder Iran voted

in the hard liners..looking around them at what happened to Iraq and the SCUZZBALLHARDLINERS in the US..what's a country to do?


And if this is true(which I don't doubt for a second)than halliburton could be setting up Iran like poppy bush did saddam in 1991(yeah, I believe it).

[karynnj]

13. This is evil

Cheney now can claim that because they got these things, their program is far enough along that we should attack them. (Shades of Iran/contra sales of weapons to Iran while we were supplying Iraq - in the Iran/Iraq war.

Iraq - gassed people with gas that Rumsfeld and Bush 1 provided
making them so evil we needed regime change

Iran - is getting nuclear weapons with Halliburrton's help ....

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. No wonder Cheney is freaking out about Iran getting a nuke

he keeps selling them the components.

[cyberpj]

15. Iran’s top nuclear negotiator faces charges over Halliburton ties

Iran’s top nuclear negotiator faces charges over Halliburton ties Fri. 29 Jul 2005
Iran Focus

Tehran, Iran, Jul. 29 – Iran’s judiciary has arrested several executives of a privately-owned oil drilling company over their dealings with the U.S.-based oil giant Halliburton and one of the country’s top nuclear negotiators is facing charges of involvement in an oil scam, a semi-official news agency reported.

Fars News Agency said Mehrdad Safdari, chairman of the Board of Directors of Oriental Oil Kish, and several of his collegues are being interrogated over the company’s trading.

A senior member of Iran’s nuclear negotiations team, Sirus Nasseri, is the vice-chairman of the Board of Directors of the oil company. The news agency said “a well-informed source” close to the investigation sharply criticized Iran’s “security and political agencies” for their “blatant weakness” in preventing Nasseri from dealing with Halliburton.

“The authorities must be particularly vigilant about the extensive economic activities of some of the country’s officials”, he said. The source noted that “Nasseri had access to the country’s most secret information as a member of Iran’s nuclear negotiations team and was at the same time dealing directly with the American company, Halliburton, which used to be run by Dick Cheney”.

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3040

[Tace]

16. Good Link

chrs

[cyberpj]

30. U sure?

I'm not sure I can tell yet. The "About Us" sounds good but when you get to the "fair and balanced" part it makes you wonder.......

I just saved the link you provided though.


About Iran Focus

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[The Backlash Cometh]

17. Traitors, traitors, traitors!

Anyone left who believes we're an independant democratic nation? I feel like there's been a hostile take-over of our country and we've been diced and parceled. WE just haven't gotten our pink slips yet.

[July]

19. I'm losing track of all the treason.

Chalabi gets info from one of our spies, gives it to Iran.

Plame.

Whatever's behind the Sibel Edmonds story.

AIPAC spies.

Wasn't there something to do with A. Q. Khan?

Halliburton.

Post-9/11 special treatment for Saudis (including bin Ladens).

What am I forgetting?

[cyberpj]

31. A refresher course:

LONG threads but well worth re-reading:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2178477

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2191498

[July]

38. Thank you very much, cyberpj. nt

[xchrom]

21. the u.s. through the gov -- or through it's corporate representatives

are always selling weapons to tyrants, ''enemies'', whatever.

this is no surprise -- it has vague reminders of rumsfeld and sadaam.

all this does is underscore the greed -- the corporate maneuvering -- that is the real motivating factor in our government today.

ya know all of a sudden the word ''purge'' just popped into my mind.
i mean what ever happened to the movement to clean corporate influence out of gov?

[Barrett808]

23. How about Rumsfeld, ABB, and the nuclear technology to N. Korea?

That's pretty well documented, yes?

[geckosfeet]

24. Those dirty rats! nt

[emulatorloo]

25. Kicking for Dick Cheney doing business with Iran

:kick:

[wli]

26. Cheney dealing nukes? big surprise

[Old and In the Way]

27. I'll bet the Halloway story is much more important to this country.

right?

[0007]

28. Could this story have Rove's fingerprints?

It does appear to be pretty far out. I don't think Halliburton would leave themselves so wide open.

Then again it could be true.

[Tace]

36. Maybe

But Halliburton may be able to legally use foreign subsidiaries for this kind of thing.

[lovuian]

29. The next Nuke bomb will probably be Iraqi!!!

:nuke:

[ninkasi]

32. I am so sick of it all...

These evil bastards, the damage they do, they lives they destroy, the lives they ruin; I am sick of average Americans being so overworked that they don't have the time or energy to find out what's going on, so they vote for the guy with the smoothest line, they guy who sounds all moral, and for family values, and all the rest of it.

I am sick of it being some of us against the rest of us, while the power players rake in the bucks and laugh, and watch while the rest of us divide into camps and destroy each other, leaving the upper class untouched.

I am sick of it all.

[number6]

33. problem, reaction, solution ......

never ending war profits ...

[halobeam]

35. Cocky if you ask me.

They figure they'll get away with the Halliburton ties for a real long while, (cuz most "believers" say Cheney has nothing to do with Halliburton anymore anyway) and this is the perfect debunk for the "Iran won't have weapons for a decade". There you go.

One thing that still doesn't fit with this is, last night's Friday night dumper that the US backs the EU proposal for Iran to continue with nuke power plants as long as they follow the guidelines as displayed in the proposal.

And didn't Iran say the EU agreement is unacceptable like seven or so days ago??? this doesn't make sense...

The US backs a proposal AFTER it was REJECTED by Iran??? it's all so freakin' convoluted!

[CorwinB]

40. Well, this time...

They will have extremely accurate intelligence once they start beating the drums of war. Sales Receipts from Halliburton. Doesn't get much more accurate than that ! (although Halliburton loves them some "creative accounting" and "fuzzy maths")

"But we know they've got WMDs !"
"How do you know ?"
"We've got the receipts !"

[Hekate]

42. I wonder if they tossed their souls in with the sale (n/t)