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2005-12-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US sanctions nine firms for Iran arms-related deals

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Posted by Steve White 2005-12-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I wonder if the CHinese companies appear in the supply chain feeding into Wal-Mart, etc.

I wonder if we can tell.

Posted by Penguin 2005-12-28 03:43|| 2005-12-28 03:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Steyr-Mannlicher sold 800 .50 caliber sniper rifles to Iran. Isuggest after the US-Iran war, every family member of soldiers killed by those rifles sue Steyr into bankruptcy.

Posted by ed 2005-12-28 07:42|| 2005-12-28 07:42|| Front Page Top

#3 No, No, No, we've already been down the "Blame the Gun, not the Shooter" route.
Put the blame where it truly belongs, on the trigger puller.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-12-28 08:12|| 2005-12-28 08:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Sanctions against Chinese companies.......whoa, man, heavy. I'll bet that they are quaking in their boots. Probably form some other company or another name.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-12-28 09:02|| 2005-12-28 09:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Steyr sold the siper rifles under the fiction they were for the police and border police. That excuse holds up as well as selling to the Ministry of Health to shoot rats. Know any Afghan drug smugglers operating BMPs? Steyr knew they could not get an Austrian export certificate to sell to the Iranian military, so this convenient fiction. The targets are American soldiers and nothing else. The US might as well sell the Bulgarians nuclear warheads under the rubric of radiation therapy.

Posted by ed 2005-12-28 09:06|| 2005-12-28 09:06|| Front Page Top

#6 The sanctions, which ban the companies from doing business with the US government and US companies, were based on the Iran Non-Proliferation Act of 2000, which aims at preventing Teheran from developing nuclear weapons.

Nice thought, but probably ineffective.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-12-28 10:18|| 2005-12-28 10:18|| Front Page Top

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