On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:34:57 -0700 (PDT), xxarag@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>AND I TELL YOU NOT POLITELY: FUCK OFF!
YOU TELL HIM IN THE BROKEN ENGLISH! FUCK YOU!
ELI
>
>On 13 Apr, 14:54, "ElParedon" <ser...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8609
>> by Stephanie Nebehay
>>
>> Global Research, April 8, 2008
>> Reuters
>>
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>> GENEVA, April 8 (Reuters) - Switzerland rejected accusations on Tuesday
by
>> the U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that it could be financing
>> terrorism after a Swiss company clinched a multi-billion euro (dollar)
deal
>> to buy natural gas from Iran.
>> The Swiss Foreign Ministry reiterated that the purchase did not violate
U.N.
>> Security Council resolutions imposing sanctions on Iran over its
nuclear
>> programme or U.S. domestic law.
>>
>> The American Jewish group's full-page advertisement - which follows a
>> complaint lodged by Israel with Switzerland over the deal - appeared on
>> Tuesday in newspapers under the banner "Guess who is the world's newest
>> financier of terrorism? SWITZERLAND".
>>
>> "The reproaches in this advertisement do not correspond to the facts,"
Swiss
>> Foreign Ministry spokesman Lars Knuchel said.
>>
>> The ad - which ran in the International Herald Tribune, the leading
Swiss
>> financial daily Neue Zuercher Zeitung and Geneva daily Le Temps - said
the
>> deal's "likely result" was Hamas and Hezbollah "may get tens of
thousands of
>> additional missiles".
>>
>> Both Hezbollah, the Shi'ite Muslim movement in Lebanon, and the
Palestinian
>> Islamist group Hamas which seized control of the Gaza Strip last year,
are
>> pro-Iranian parties.
>>
>> U.S. President George W. Bush has accused Shi'ite Muslim Iran of being
"the
>> world's leading state sponsor of terror" and of undermining peace by
>> supporting Hezbollah and Hamas.
>>
>> The United States has led international efforts to penalise Iran for
failing
>> to allay suspicions that it is seeking nuclear weapons and has been
urging
>> other countries to cut trade ties.
>>
>> The ad said that the contract, signed during a Tehran visit last month
by
>> Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey, would enable Iran to
accelerate
>> and complete its nuclear programme.
>>
>> "Terrorist cells in Europe, the Middle East and around the globe will
have
>> access to new weapons and support," it said. "When you finance a
terrorist
>> state, you finance terrorism."
>>
>> The Swiss energy group Elektrizitaetsgesellschaft Laufenburg (EGL) has
said
>> its 25-year deal with the National Iranian Gas Export Company was worth
>> between 10 billion euros ($15.73 billion) and 22 billion euros,
depending on
>> several factors such as the price of oil.
>>
>> Calmy-Rey, whose neutral country has worked in the past to find a
compromise
>> in the nuclear row, said in Tehran that the deal was important in the
long
>> term for both parties.
>>
>> "This business transaction between the EGL and NIGEC is fully in line
with
>> the U.N. sanctions against Iran as well as with the U.S. Iranian
Sanctions
>> Act," Knuchel said on Tuesday.
>>
>> Asked whether the deal might jeopardise neutral Switzerland's role in
>> handling U.S. interests in Iran, as it has done since the 1979
revolution,
>> he said a State Department spokesman had said last week there was no
change
>> in U.S. policy.
>>
>> The Swiss foreign ministry also pointed out that other powers including
the
>> European Union (EU), China and Japan were doing business with the
Islamic
>> Republic. (Editing by Jonathan Lynn and Charles Dick)
>>
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