Germany 'breaks Iran supply ring'

[lovuian]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4850770.stm

German customs agents have raided the offices of 41 companies suspected of links to Iran's nuclear programme.
Prosecutors said specialised equipment worth several million euros that could have been used for a nuclear programme had been shipped to Iran via Russia.

The suspicious exports were traced to a Berlin firm no longer in business.

Iran could face United Nations action over its nuclear programme, which it insists is peaceful and not aimed at producing nuclear weapons.
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This gets worse and worse doesn't it...

[Crayson]

1. COULD... WOULD... SHOULD

I think the key point is the passage ".... that *COULD* have been used for a nuclear program... "

Virtually anything can be used for a nuclear program.
Lets make a shoppinglist what you would need for a nuclear program.

- Computers
- Protective clothes
- Copper tubes for centrifugues
- Lead
- Bananas to feed the scientists

Most of that stuff is dual use and could serve in your household as well as in a nuclear program.

They just ban anything.
This is nothing else than a full trade embargo against Iran.


(Note: not trying to protect any companies here. I'm sure there's plenty of dirty business around smuggling stuff and doing bad things.)

[Zhade]

4. Indeed!

NT!

[tatertop]

2. The Two Minutes Hate is now ended. Hail Big Brother!

[Massachusetts]

3. Germany 'breaks Iran supply ring'

Poppycock!

[sweetheart]

5. museum spies of merkel's private life

I doubt anyone in germany cares about that,
and much more that a camera has been readjusted.
a secretive chancellor's husband watching TV chat,
The spy ring is broken, the museum is busted.