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"Iran bringing “many divers, sophisticated technology” to Gulf of Mexico"
LauraMansfield.com ^ | 10-24-05 | Laura Mansfield
Posted on 10/24/2005 10:19:58 AM PDT by AmericaUnite
"Iran bringing “many divers, sophisticated technology” to Gulf of Mexico"
by Laura Mansfield
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Earlier this year, a top Iranian General made the following boast: “Iran is the biggest military power in the region (with) 10 million volunteers for martyrdom operations ... to turn Iran into a terrible nightmare for the United States,” General Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, deputy commander of Iran’s hardline Revolutionary Guards, told the Kayhan newspaper.
This summer, the BBC reported an ad in an Iranian publication has calling for volunteers for "martyrdom operations" against the enemies of Islam. The ad was published by an institute managed by one of Iran's most conservative and radical clerics, Ayatollah Masbah Yazdi, who has declared his support for Iran's new President, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. It recruits men and women to enlist with the "Martyrdom Lovers' Headquarters".
So I find it more than a little ironic that the same country that is actively recruiting volunteers to conduct suicide missions against United States and US interests, and is opening bragging about it, has now been granted a base of operations in the Gulf of Mexico, within easy striking distance of America’s Gulf Coast.
The Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction Company is expected to begin shortly a major $90 million dollar project laying pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico. The company says it will be laying 36-inch pipes 60-70 meters under water.
The company expects to be handing the rest of the $400 million dollar project as well.
According to a press release on IRNA, “The Gulf of Mexico project will help the Iranian company gain valuable experiences given the large presence of European and American companies in the area.”
The press release also states that the “project will need many divers and sophisticated technology.”
Is anyone in our government paying attention here?"
OFF TOPIC but interesting and reposting...
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http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=35957&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs
"Mexico planning VW Bora production in Kerman"
Sunday, September 25, 2005 - ©2005 IranMania.com
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LONDON, September 25 (IranMania) - Iran and Mexico are planning to cooperate on the production of a high quality but expensive Volkswagen car, said the Mexican ambassador.
According to ILNA, Luis Ortiz Monasterio further said on the sidelines of the Third International Exhibition on Transportation, Development and Urban Services that the Bora, which has all the capabilities of a Golf hatchback plus a boot, is a popular car in Mexico and will be produced in Iran from 2006.
Mexico has been cooperating with the giant German carmaker for the past 40 years,? he said, adding that since automotive industries in Iran and Mexico are at the same level, Bora production in Iran is considered by both sides as an exchange of technology.
He put bilateral trade transactions between Tehran and Mexico City at $60 million, stressing that the Mexican Embassy in Tehran is trying to boost this figure."
This is very disturbing (but then again, isn't most info on TM?) How can Iran come into the Gulf of Mexico to get crude, when we need to be the ones drilling there??