Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran

Global Research.ca, August 5, 2005
Title: â??Halliburton Secretly Doing Business With Key Member of Iranâ??s Nuclear Teamâ?�
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 Iranâ??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 Iranâ??s nuclear development team. Nasseri was interrogated by Iranian authorities in late July 2005 for allegedly providing Halliburton with Iranâ??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, â??was winding down its work due to a poor business environment.â?�

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, â??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 â??non-American.â?� But like the sign over the receptionistâ??s head, the brochure bears the companyâ??s name and red emblem, and offers services from Halliburton units around the world.â?� Moreover mail sent to the companyâ??s offices in Tehran and the Cayman Islands is forwarded directly to its Dallas headquarters.

In an attempt to curtail Halliburton and other U.S. companies from engaging in business dealings with rogue nations such as Libya, Iran, and Syria, an amendment was approved in the Senate on July 26, 2005. The amendment, sponsored by Senator Susan Collins R-Maine, would penalize companies that continue to skirt U.S. law by setting up offshore subsidiaries as a way to legally conduct and avoid U.S. sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

A letter, drafted by trade groups representing corporate executives, vehemently objected to the amendment, saying it would lead to further hatred and perhaps incite terrorist attacks on the U.S. and â??greatly strain relations with the United States primary trading partners.â?� The letter warned that, â??Foreign governments view U.S. efforts to dictate their foreign and commercial policy as violations of sovereignty often leading them to adopt retaliatory measures more at odds with U.S. goals.â?�

Halliburton should have to pay HUGE penalties for doing business with Iran. The work that they did with the "South Pars gas field project" is fact but why the hell put on the spin about Nuclear technology? The damn Russians have been supplying components and staff to do this project.........that isn't even in the realm of work that Haliburton is involved in.

Have a good one!:s4:

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Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud

Halliburton should have to pay HUGE penalties for doing business with Iran. The work that they did with the "South Pars gas field project" is fact but why the hell put on the spin about Nuclear technology? The damn Russians have been supplying components and staff to do this project.........that isn't even in the realm of work that Haliburton is involved in.

Have a good one!:s4:

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who knows what evil lurks in the midst of Haliburton. They are raping and pillaging world wide, and their main source of revenue was set up by Dick Cheney, the US government, or as I see it our tax dollars. I wonder what % of my tax dollars go to Haliburton? 1 Penny is too much.

just for shits and giggles, I wonder how many Bush-Cheney-Halliburton Bashers realize Halliburton is owned and operated by Brown & Root, a Texas oil industry corporation OWNED by Ladybird Johnson - DEMOCRAT - get it thru your head, regardless of political party, they are ALL greedy, lying bastards :D

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Originally Posted by freewheelinfrank

just for shits and giggles, I wonder how many Bush-Cheney-Halliburton Bashers realize Halliburton is owned and operated by Brown & Root, a Texas oil industry corporation OWNED by Ladybird Johnson - DEMOCRAT - get it thru your head, regardless of political party, they are ALL greedy, lying bastards :D

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Hmm, ok so its located in Texas, has to do with oil, and somehow you fail to see the Bush family fortune tapped into this ?? Give me a break.

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Originally Posted by deftdrummer

Hmm, ok so its located in Texas, has to do with oil, and somehow you fail to see the Bush family fortune tapped into this ?? Give me a break.

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So any and all oil companies in Texas are owned by the Bush family? Give ME a break!

Have a good one!:s4:

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Originally Posted by freewheelinfrank

get it thru your head, regardless of political party, they are ALL greedy, lying bastards :D

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and while the liberals are calling for bush's head on a stake and the conservatives are calling the dems a bunch of spineless freeloaders, the members of both parties are sitting together in washington laughing their asses off about how well they have played the american public.

before we delve too deeply into conspiricy theories, how about this little gem:
Halliburton will move headquarters from Houston to Dubai - USATODAY.com

Halliburton- just a good old fashioned 'Murikan company...

Oh its okay Dick Cheney said so...

Cheney=Devil, Cheney=Devil, Bush=Devil, Bush=Devil, now you know! Mirriam Webster: Devil; the personal supreme spirit of evil; a wicked person; Demon!