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  • Pentagon to blacklist companies investing in Iran

    03/28/2003 7:41:51 PM PST · by MadIvan · 8 replies · 236+ views
    The Financial Times ^ | March 29, 2003 | Guy Dinmore
    The Pentagon is drawing up a blacklist of non-US companies investing in Iran's energy sector with a possible view to barring them from US-awarded contracts in the reconstruction of neighbouring Iraq, according to private-sector sources close to the US defence department. The companies on the draft list include several from countries within the US-led "coalition of the willing", such as oil companies Shell of the UK and Italy's Eni. TotalFinaElf of France is also listed. President George W. Bush last year identified Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an "axis of evil" that pursued weapons of mass destruction and aided...