Posted on 04/13/2006 5:09:47 AM PDT by nuconvert
Iran to buy Israel-made car alarms from China’
(Agencies)
13 April 2006
TEL AVIV — The Iranian Ministry of Transport recently asked a Chinese company provide anti-theft car alarm systems, the consignment of which, according to media reports, contains 15,000 anti-theft devices made in Israel.
Meanwhile, the Israeli mass media declared that the Iranian government had signed a deal with a Chinese company which markets the products for an Israeli company called Sonar located in Ramat Hasharon town in north of Tel Aviv.
The deal was made after an Iranian Ministry of Transport representative visited a Chinese automobile alarm systems exhibition.
The Iranian representative took 20 of the devices back to his homeland, and subsequently, the Iranian government asked the Chinese company to provide 15,000 such devices.
Global Trade ????????
Explosions make the car alarms go off which gives everybody a little extra warning time.
Remote bomb detonators!!
the car alarms can be rigged with explosives, when the car is tampered with... kaboom.... I'd like to see an investigation to all the car bombs that go off in Iraq over the next couple months ... whos willing to bet, some of the debri will include these Israeli made car alarm parts.
Thank you. I knew FReepers would come up with the most likely explanation
What in the world do they need car alarms for in Iran? Isn't stealing cars a crime? Why would good Muslims steal a car?
It's the government buying them. Not a private company.
They ain't buying them to hand out to parliament.
I think Don Carlos & Element187 are on the right track.
The alarm does not have to be rigged to an automobile but could be used on a buried IED. Since it is sonar, it is self triggering.
'Zacly. And if for some reason it fails to detonate, there's always the panic button to serve as backup. That little remote on your keychain will activate your alarm from several hundred feet!
Actually, the gov't owns the car manufacturer, so the gov't would have to order the alarms for new cars.
But they could still take 1,000 out of the order for "other" uses.
Iran builds cars? Wow! Who would have thought that!
Here's a blogger who talks about it and has pictures....
"Introduction to Perisa's car manufacturing"
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Um3bLdOkP0IJ:my.opera.com/Raha/+Iran+car+manufacture&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=5
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