"What accounts for the German -- and European -- interest in Iran? Vulnerability to oil and terrorist blackmail is a big part of it. So is trade: German exports to Iran reached $6 billion in 1993. For Europeans eager to see themselves as playing a geopolitical role in the Middle East, there is also the temptation of filling a vacuum left by the U.S. Germany has ties with Iran going back to the 1930s, so nostalgia plays a role too. The European Union has adopted a common policy toward Iran, called a "critical dialogue." It means, in theory, a critical posture toward Iran's misbehavior while maintaining normal commercial and political relations. "
"The Europeans seem beyond embarrassment in their devotion to the "critical dialogue." Not Iran's continuing military buildup, nor its active support for terrorism, nor its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, nor its active hostility toward the Arab-Israeli diplomacy has dampened Europe's enthusiasm. The British are only slightly deterred by the mullahs' reaffirmation of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the reports in April 1994 that Iran had aided the Irish Republican Army."
"The Germans' honored guest, Mr. Fallahian, is now the subject of an arrest warrant issued by a German court. He is suspected of having planned the 1992 murders of four Iranian Kurdish exiles at a Berlin restaurant, part of a series of such murders going back to 1987. Mr. Schmidbauer reportedly intervened to ensure that Mr. Fallahian would not be asked about any of the murders on his 1993 visit. Leaked documents make clear that German authorities have a mountain of evidence that the killings were organized by the Bonn station of Savama, the Iranian foreign intelligence service, operating out of the third floor of the Iranian Embassy, with branches in the Iranian consulates in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin, and Munich. In August 1995, two Iranian "diplomats" were expelled from Germany. "
"The embarrassment continues. This April an EU troika of foreign ministers visited Tehran hoping to obtain an official statement from the Islamic Republic condemning terrorism. They came home disappointed. The same month, an Iranian freighter out of Bandar Abbas, destination Hamburg, was intercepted in Antwerp, Belgium carrying disassembled mortars -- a special 320mm mortar capable of firing 275-pound shells a half mile. Last month Siemens AG -- long rumored to be involved in aiding Iran's nuclear power development -- was embarrassed by press reports of a radiation accident at a power station in northern Iran injuring at least seven Siemens engineers. The most recent press leak was of a German sale to Iran of five Dornier transport aircraft, usable for reconnaissance missions."
from BBC:
"At the end of the eighth round of the comprehensive talks between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the EU, held in Madrid, the two sides underlined the need to expand cooperation in the fields of commerce and investment [robbing the Iranian people's money], energy[stealing Iran's oil], combating drugs [monopolizing drug trade by akhoonds] and the issue of refugees [deportation of Iranian political activists opposing the regime], and it was decided that the implementation of previous agreements and accords should be expedited [before it is too late and the Iranian people destroy the criminal regime]."
European business sees new area of potential
The Financial Times
By AP: AGENCY MATERIAL, NAJMEH BOZORGMEHR and STEFAN WAGSTYL
February 7, 2002
The European business community in Tehran sees the US threats against Iran as a potential opportunity, further delaying the return of American rivals to the country named as being part of an "axis of evil".
"It's like Christmas for European and Japanese companies," said a consultant who believed that the return of US companies would be delayed for at least a few more years.
Businessmen expect oil deals, which have been delayed by the Iranian side for more than a year, to be signed in the not-too-distant future to strike a blow against US sanctions and threats.
This is what is happening to the Iranian people as the Europeans make deals with the criminal regime ! just like the Catholic Church, IBM, and others, who helped out Hitler and the Nazi regime !
