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Report: Israel and Iran holding secret talks
Jerusalem Post ^ | Dec. 6, 2006

Posted on 12/05/2006 10:04:12 PM PST by Biscuit85

While Iran continues to deny that Israel has the right to exist, Iranian and Israeli representatives are holding clandestine talks in Europe to settle an old Israeli debt, Ha'aretz reported Wednesday.

Iran is still owed hundreds of millions of dollars for oil it supplied to Israel in the years before the Islamic Revolution in 1979, and representatives of the two countries, now sworn enemies, are holding contacts meant to settle the debt, according to the report in Haaretz.

The report was attributed to anonymous Israeli and Swiss officials involved in the negotiations.

Two mediation processes involving different parts of the debt are now ongoing between Iranian and Israeli representatives, the report said, and a third ended recently in a ruling that Israeli fuel companies owe Iran tens of millions of dollars.

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1979; iran; islamicrevolution; israel; middleeast; oil; swiss; talks

1 posted on 12/05/2006 10:04:14 PM PST by Biscuit85
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To: Biscuit85
Idiocy. Israel has more restraint than we'll ever know. If it were up to me I'd turn the "Middle East" into a kitty litter box.
2 posted on 12/05/2006 10:06:49 PM PST by Jaysun (Let's not ruin this moment with words.)
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To: Biscuit85

Ah yes, the old pay for your own destruction ploy. ???


3 posted on 12/05/2006 10:10:04 PM PST by GoLightly
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To: Biscuit85
Hate thy neighbors, love thy money.
4 posted on 12/05/2006 10:11:08 PM PST by paudio (WoT is more important than War on Gay Marriage!)
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To: Biscuit85

What?! Is this from The Onion?


5 posted on 12/05/2006 10:12:55 PM PST by Azzurri
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To: Biscuit85
Thith iths like so cereal..
6 posted on 12/05/2006 10:15:37 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: Biscuit85

Israel should tell Iran they'll pay it back: to Reza Pahlavi (who could use the money to fund an insurgency in Iran), not the theocrat nazi dictators who overthrew his father.


8 posted on 12/05/2006 10:18:25 PM PST by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: 4butnomorethan30characters
The Hardley Boys... you win.
9 posted on 12/05/2006 10:19:31 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: All

Paying off Iran is something France would do, not Israel. The Israelis are smart enough to know that every dime they gave Iran would be used to fund the murder of their people.


10 posted on 12/05/2006 10:30:11 PM PST by CaliGangsta
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To: lesser_satan

Hey, that's not a bad idea! Of course, instead of advertising their financial support for Pahlavi, they should go about it more secretly so as to not discredit the insurgency. If Iran has hezbollah, Israel should have its own, proxy anti-ayatollah insurgent arm.


11 posted on 12/05/2006 10:38:14 PM PST by Constantine XI Palaeologus ("Vicisti, Galilaee")
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To: Biscuit85
If, and there is a big 'if' this story is credible, after years of Iran's proxy terrorist thugs slaughtering thousands of Israelis since the jihadist régime was allowed to seize control of Iran vast oil reserves - not one shekel should ever be allowed to be paid to terrorist exporting Iran.

Olmert, you pencil neck geek, are you reading this?

12 posted on 12/05/2006 11:06:59 PM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free!)
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To: Biscuit85

The mullahs should be paid in Plutonium..


13 posted on 12/05/2006 11:16:17 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Biscuit85

And how much does Iran owe Israel for weapons provided (to fight Iraq) but never paid for?


14 posted on 12/05/2006 11:32:55 PM PST by El Gato
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To: Biscuit85

The Olmert Israeli government is probably giving away the store, if I have them sized up correctly.


15 posted on 12/06/2006 4:39:38 AM PST by RoadTest (Both manifestations of The Word Of God are alive and powerful.)
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To: Biscuit85

Wealthy Jews tried to negotiate with Hitler. He took their money and you know the rest of the story.


16 posted on 12/06/2006 7:10:47 AM PST by wildbill
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To: Biscuit85

I wonder hwo long it will take before the US taxpayers get this bill to pay too..................


17 posted on 12/06/2006 7:13:01 AM PST by WhiteGuy (GO BUCKS 12-0)
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To: Biscuit85
With all due respect, if a country is threatening to wipe you out, I don't think talks aimed at giving said country money owed from prior dealings is in order.

Geez...
18 posted on 12/06/2006 7:17:23 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (A liberal is a suicide bomber without the guts)
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