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Opening Soon: Germans Race to Capture the Iranian Market
Der Spiegel ^ | October 30, 2015 – 05:08 PM | Alexander Smoltczyk

Posted on 11/05/2015 7:33:59 AM PST by Olog-hai

Ahead of the planned lifting of Western sanctions against Iran, businessmen from around the world are visiting the country, and as one group from Germany discovered, there is no shortage of opportunities. [...]

To help people establish relationships with representatives of the "Evil Empire," the German-Iranian Chamber of Commerce set up a "B2B" contact exchange. It's a form of speed dating, in which Iranian businesspeople walk from one table to the next, together with an interpreter and a handful of brochures of the Lower Saxony companies.

The business owners from Hanover are quickly surrounded by Iranians, who treat them like saviors. It feels good to the Germans to be courted this way. "We offer world-class expertise," says Stephan Bergmann, from Vechta in the Oldenburg Muensterland region. "They appreciate our expertise here. In Germany, my industry is usually the target of criticism." Bergmann's profile states that he develops drugs "in Europe's biggest animal finishing region." ...

(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Germany; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: germany; germanyiran; greed; iran; iraneconomy; irangermany; iranmarket; iransanctions; money; obama; rop; sanctions

1 posted on 11/05/2015 7:33:59 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I suspect this is beginning to reveal the REAL reason for the Iran deal: Money.


2 posted on 11/05/2015 7:36:08 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Olog-hai
OUT: "Mein Kampf"

IN: "Mein Caliph"


3 posted on 11/05/2015 7:37:26 AM PST by Iron Munro (<p> The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Olog-hai
The business owners from Hanover are quickly surrounded by Iranians, who treat them like saviors.

If there's a war with Iran - my guess is the Germans will side with Iranians.

4 posted on 11/05/2015 7:37:35 AM PST by GOPJ (policy debates rather then journalists clowns posturing and mugging for their fellow journalistsMNJ.)
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To: Olog-hai

“We can make you a great deal on some slightly used diesel vehicles...”


5 posted on 11/05/2015 7:39:10 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Olog-hai

That’s because Syria is racing to capture the German market.


6 posted on 11/05/2015 7:42:06 AM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Of course. The fact that Iran’s biggest trading partners in what is called the West were purveyors of this “deal” certainly underscores that.


7 posted on 11/05/2015 7:43:50 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Some may recall Germany’s role with nuke tech and weapons of mass destruction and Iraq....


8 posted on 11/05/2015 8:25:42 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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