Iran using Venezuela ties to duck UN sanctions: report
AFP
22-Dec-2008 (5 comments)

ROME (AFP) — Iran is using its warm relations with Venezuela to dodge UN sanctions and use Venezuelan aircraft to ship missile parts to Syria, an Italian newspaper reported Sunday.

Citing US and other Western intelligence agencies, La Stampa said Iran is using aircraft from Venezuelan airline Conviasa to transport computers and engine components to Syria for use in missiles.

The material comes from Iranian industrial group Shahid Bagheri, listed in the annex of UN Security Council Resolution 1737, adopted in December 2006, for involvement in Iran's ballistic missile programme.

The resolution instructed all nations to "prevent the supply, sale or transfer" of all material or technology that could be used for Iran's nuclear enrichment programme and the development of weapons to carry nuclear warheads.

Syria is a close ally of Iran in the Middle East, with the two nations having signed a military cooperation pact in June 2006.

In return for providing aircraft, Iran has made available to Caracas members of its Revolution Guards and the elite Al-Quds unit to train and reinforce the Venezuelan police and secret services, La Stampa reported.

Iran denies Western and Israeli suspicions that it is developing nuclear weapons, asserting that its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes only. It nevertheless defies a UN demand to halt uranium enrichment.

Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and his Venezuela... >>>

recommended by Farhad Kashani

Balatarin
Share/Save/Bookmark

 
default

Re: ./., First off,

by ./. (not verified) on Thu Dec 25, 2008 03:10 AM PST

FK
You ask "the “Zio Nazis” (whom only god knows who they are!!) "

Answer:
Zio-Nazis are the Zionists. Since they act like German Nazis and they are blood thirsty, they are called Zio-Nazis.

Thanks for being curious !


  •  
Farhad Kashani

./.,   First off,

by Farhad Kashani on Wed Dec 24, 2008 05:34 PM PST

./.,

 

First off, relating every issue anyone ever talks about to Israel, is a sign of severe “obsession illness” with Israel. I suggest you get help.

 

Second, what about the sanctions imposed on S Africa? Didn’t it end apartheid? Did the “Zio Nazis” (whom only god knows who they are!!) do them too? If they did, god blesses them for doing that. So, in order for the Apartheid regime of IRI to be removed also, we need smart sanctions also. So, just like the black people who were enslaved in S Africa, the Iranian people who are treated like sub-humans also, can be freed.


  •  
default

why sanctions?

by ./. (not verified) on Wed Dec 24, 2008 07:20 AM PST

sanctions are a Zio-Nazi invention to make ordinary people suffer. It has many unintended consequences and given the track record of the regimes that impose it (Israelie lobbies, etc.), it should be considered as human rights violation. We all know that UN has considered Israel as a major violator of human rights!


  •  
Farhad Kashani

"Smart" sanctions are the answer

by Farhad Kashani on Tue Dec 23, 2008 06:43 PM PST

There should be sanctions that only affects the regime and its officials. There should be smart sanctions.


  •  
default

That's good

by goodie (not verified) on Tue Dec 23, 2008 01:58 PM PST

Sanctions are not the answer.


  •