Israel's Weapons Sales to Iran
Dr. Alexander von Paleske | 07.03.2007 20:29 | Anti-militarism
Israel's sale of conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction into Iran during the last 27 years.
While the US and Israel are preparing for war against Iran, it is time to look at
Israel’s history of the sale of weapons including weapons od mass destruction to it’s arch enemy Iran.
Israel has a long history of supplying Iran with weapons
The Shah of Iran , who was chased from power in 1979, had bought plenty of weapons, before his departure, in the US, for roughly 18 billion US Dollars.
Amongst them 80 warplanes of the type F 14.
The Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran and his government needed them badly, after Saddam Hussein attacked Iran in 1980
However the US government had imposed an arms embargo after the occupation and hostage taking in the US embassy in Tehran in late 1979.So urgently needed spare parts were not for sale in the US for Tehran.
To the surprise of the US government, this embargo was without any effect. The Iranians were helped by Israel. Israel did not care a bit about the embargo. Money did the talking. They saw a chance to make extra profits and keep the Iran-Iraq war going, two of it’s enemies fighting against each other.
Israel regarded Iraq as the bigger enemy, whilst the European countries and the US thought otherwise.
After the Mossad had given the green light, the arms deals were negotiated by an Israeli general by the name of Avraham Bar-Am, famous for his brutality against Arabs.
Participating in these arms deals allegedly a German arms dealer group comprising Hans Bihn, Hans Schneider, Hermann Moll and Ralph Kopka.
They were well connected to a former top general of the German army, Bundeswehr, by the name of Albert Schnez.
On the Israeli side it was a Ron Harel, acting for Israeli Military industries (IMI), his representative in Germany was a Henry Kamaniecky, Israeli with a German passport. The Iranians were represented by a Abdolfath Katibi and a German by the name of Stephan Kaiser.
The US, after they found out, protested, however they themselves later on sold weapons via Israel into Iran in 1986, it was afterwards called the "Iran Contra Scandal".
The profits from these deals were used to support a right wing terror group, fighting the government of Nicaragua, called the Contras., involved was the Pentagon with it’s colonel Oliver North, the CIA and the arms dealer and international crook Adnan Khashoggi.
From Germany to Vienna
After being followed by German police, the arms dealers moved from Germany to Vienna, Austria.
Money was generated by selling Iranian Oil on the black market, that exceeded the OPEC Quota, at a discount.
The oil selling shop was called Bandaran and managed by an Iranian by the name of Mehdi Farschi, alias Hashemi Bari alias Farschchiha alias Masoud.
He was helped by three local men, Manfred Felber, Engineer, married to an Iranian woman, Ilija Sirbegovic, also engineer and Gustav Kurz.
One of the top arms sellers to Iran was an Israeli by the name Nahum Manbar via his company Europol, based in Poland..
He bought Russian tanks of the type T 72 and T 55. They were before sale to Iran refurbished with electronics by the Israeli company El OP. Polish specialists were trained on these arms and later flown to Tehran to train the Iranians.
Manbar was a big supporter of Israels Labour Party and at fuctions regularly seated at the top table next to former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
A ship without a harbour.
In August 2002, the cargo of a ship by the name of “Zim Antwerp I", registered in Thailand was confiscated by German police. The cargo consisted of 3000 tank chains and hundreds of tyres for armed personnel carriers. The final destination: Iran’s port Bandar e Abbas.
The sender: The Israeli company PAD, based in Netanya and owned by one Archivai Weinstein.
His brother-in-law, Eli Cohen, in 1999 bought arms in Canada and shipped them via Belgium to Iran.
Not only arms, also chemicals were sold by the chemical company Carmel, owned by the Dankner family in Haifa, to Iran. However Carmel was using a subsidiary in Kenya to mask the origin.
So most Israeli arms deals actually appeared to be arms deals of other countries.
These arms deals continued, after the Iran-Iraq war was over and beyond the first Gulf war in 1991, in which Iraq was defeated.
Weapons of mass destruction into Iran
Already in 1989 an Israeli arms dealer, involved in the lucrative Iran-weapons axis by the name of Charles Caplan, tried to sell the nerve gas Sarin to the Iranians. He was helped by a South Korean Juwhan Yun.
However the US customs and police got wind of it and stopped it.
These modest beginnings, that had no consequences for the actors, were followed by a more professional sale not only of raw material for the nerve gases Sarin and Mustard, but also the sale of blueprints for a factory plus the KnowHow for the production of these nerve gases. Bought in China and shipped to Bandar e Abbas/Iran.
Sarin is one of the worst weapons of mass destruction. Invented by Adolf Hitler's chemical industries in 1937, however never used in WW2.
It was, however, used in a horrific terrorist attack in the subway of Tokyo, in which more than 5000 people were injured.
The Buyers
The buyers are Dr. Abbaspour Tehrani Fard, head of Iran's department 105 (defence industries).
He is a close friend of Iran's former President Rafsanjani. The buys are made by the Vienna Crew, Farschi, Felber & Co.
The Sellers
The Sellers are two groups. One group comprises the arms dealer Nahum Manbar
in cohort with the Israeli Secret Service Shin Bet. Equally involved the British Mi6 with it's agents Richard Tomlinson and Joyce Kiddie.
The second group comprised the Israeli Colonel and former F4 pilot Moshe Regev alias Regenstreich in cohort with Shin Bet..
He was supported by the German Gerhard Merz who later on in 2004 was involved in the failed coup in Equatorial Guinea and died there amidst the allegations of torture.
Apparently the German Secret Service BND knew about the sales to Iran.
The sales were during the period from 1991 to 1994.At the same time the UN weapons inspectors were searching for these weapons in neighboring Iraq.
The Israeli Government ordered to stop the sale, after weapons once sold by Israel to Iran arrived in South Lebanon with Hezbollah.
Regev/Merz stopped, however Manbar continued for another year.
He was sentenced to 16 years in prison in a secret trial in Israel, that was marked by scandals.
The presiding judge Shtrasnov started an intimate relationship with one of Manbar's junior lawyers, Pninat Yanai.
This is the first time in history, that a country has sold weapons of mass destruction to it's arch enemy.
The only explanation is, that Israel tried to create a case of war with Iran, at that time unsuccessfully.
Dr. Alexander von Paleske
Head, Department of Oncology
Princess Marina Hospital
Gaborone/Botswana/Africa
Ex Barrister-at-Law, High Court Frankfurt (M), Germany
Links
US Prepares to attack Iran-(Alexander von Paleske), MMEGI 28 Feb. 2007
Death of a Mercenary (Yossi Melman) Ha'aretz 15 April 2005
Transport of Weapons of mass destruction to Iran by Israel and Britain- ()Alexander von Paleske), Indymedia UK14.4.2006
www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/04/338295.html
US aginst Iran-Apocalypse now?
www.oraclesyndicate.twoday.net/stories/3347002/
British agents helped Iran to make killer gas - Observer 13 June 1999
Spooky People - Guardian 22 Jan 1999
Chemical chronology NTI
www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Iran/Chemical/2340_2964.html
Manbar wasn't alone - Jerusalem Post 17 July 1998
Civil disrespect (Dan Izenberg) Jerusalem Post 3 June 2004
Death of a Mercenary (Yossi Melman) Ha'aretz 15 April 2005
Israel’s history of the sale of weapons including weapons od mass destruction to it’s arch enemy Iran.
Israel has a long history of supplying Iran with weapons
The Shah of Iran , who was chased from power in 1979, had bought plenty of weapons, before his departure, in the US, for roughly 18 billion US Dollars.
Amongst them 80 warplanes of the type F 14.
The Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran and his government needed them badly, after Saddam Hussein attacked Iran in 1980
However the US government had imposed an arms embargo after the occupation and hostage taking in the US embassy in Tehran in late 1979.So urgently needed spare parts were not for sale in the US for Tehran.
To the surprise of the US government, this embargo was without any effect. The Iranians were helped by Israel. Israel did not care a bit about the embargo. Money did the talking. They saw a chance to make extra profits and keep the Iran-Iraq war going, two of it’s enemies fighting against each other.
Israel regarded Iraq as the bigger enemy, whilst the European countries and the US thought otherwise.
After the Mossad had given the green light, the arms deals were negotiated by an Israeli general by the name of Avraham Bar-Am, famous for his brutality against Arabs.
Participating in these arms deals allegedly a German arms dealer group comprising Hans Bihn, Hans Schneider, Hermann Moll and Ralph Kopka.
They were well connected to a former top general of the German army, Bundeswehr, by the name of Albert Schnez.
On the Israeli side it was a Ron Harel, acting for Israeli Military industries (IMI), his representative in Germany was a Henry Kamaniecky, Israeli with a German passport. The Iranians were represented by a Abdolfath Katibi and a German by the name of Stephan Kaiser.
The US, after they found out, protested, however they themselves later on sold weapons via Israel into Iran in 1986, it was afterwards called the "Iran Contra Scandal".
The profits from these deals were used to support a right wing terror group, fighting the government of Nicaragua, called the Contras., involved was the Pentagon with it’s colonel Oliver North, the CIA and the arms dealer and international crook Adnan Khashoggi.
From Germany to Vienna
After being followed by German police, the arms dealers moved from Germany to Vienna, Austria.
Money was generated by selling Iranian Oil on the black market, that exceeded the OPEC Quota, at a discount.
The oil selling shop was called Bandaran and managed by an Iranian by the name of Mehdi Farschi, alias Hashemi Bari alias Farschchiha alias Masoud.
He was helped by three local men, Manfred Felber, Engineer, married to an Iranian woman, Ilija Sirbegovic, also engineer and Gustav Kurz.
One of the top arms sellers to Iran was an Israeli by the name Nahum Manbar via his company Europol, based in Poland..
He bought Russian tanks of the type T 72 and T 55. They were before sale to Iran refurbished with electronics by the Israeli company El OP. Polish specialists were trained on these arms and later flown to Tehran to train the Iranians.
Manbar was a big supporter of Israels Labour Party and at fuctions regularly seated at the top table next to former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
A ship without a harbour.
In August 2002, the cargo of a ship by the name of “Zim Antwerp I", registered in Thailand was confiscated by German police. The cargo consisted of 3000 tank chains and hundreds of tyres for armed personnel carriers. The final destination: Iran’s port Bandar e Abbas.
The sender: The Israeli company PAD, based in Netanya and owned by one Archivai Weinstein.
His brother-in-law, Eli Cohen, in 1999 bought arms in Canada and shipped them via Belgium to Iran.
Not only arms, also chemicals were sold by the chemical company Carmel, owned by the Dankner family in Haifa, to Iran. However Carmel was using a subsidiary in Kenya to mask the origin.
So most Israeli arms deals actually appeared to be arms deals of other countries.
These arms deals continued, after the Iran-Iraq war was over and beyond the first Gulf war in 1991, in which Iraq was defeated.
Weapons of mass destruction into Iran
Already in 1989 an Israeli arms dealer, involved in the lucrative Iran-weapons axis by the name of Charles Caplan, tried to sell the nerve gas Sarin to the Iranians. He was helped by a South Korean Juwhan Yun.
However the US customs and police got wind of it and stopped it.
These modest beginnings, that had no consequences for the actors, were followed by a more professional sale not only of raw material for the nerve gases Sarin and Mustard, but also the sale of blueprints for a factory plus the KnowHow for the production of these nerve gases. Bought in China and shipped to Bandar e Abbas/Iran.
Sarin is one of the worst weapons of mass destruction. Invented by Adolf Hitler's chemical industries in 1937, however never used in WW2.
It was, however, used in a horrific terrorist attack in the subway of Tokyo, in which more than 5000 people were injured.
The Buyers
The buyers are Dr. Abbaspour Tehrani Fard, head of Iran's department 105 (defence industries).
He is a close friend of Iran's former President Rafsanjani. The buys are made by the Vienna Crew, Farschi, Felber & Co.
The Sellers
The Sellers are two groups. One group comprises the arms dealer Nahum Manbar
in cohort with the Israeli Secret Service Shin Bet. Equally involved the British Mi6 with it's agents Richard Tomlinson and Joyce Kiddie.
The second group comprised the Israeli Colonel and former F4 pilot Moshe Regev alias Regenstreich in cohort with Shin Bet..
He was supported by the German Gerhard Merz who later on in 2004 was involved in the failed coup in Equatorial Guinea and died there amidst the allegations of torture.
Apparently the German Secret Service BND knew about the sales to Iran.
The sales were during the period from 1991 to 1994.At the same time the UN weapons inspectors were searching for these weapons in neighboring Iraq.
The Israeli Government ordered to stop the sale, after weapons once sold by Israel to Iran arrived in South Lebanon with Hezbollah.
Regev/Merz stopped, however Manbar continued for another year.
He was sentenced to 16 years in prison in a secret trial in Israel, that was marked by scandals.
The presiding judge Shtrasnov started an intimate relationship with one of Manbar's junior lawyers, Pninat Yanai.
This is the first time in history, that a country has sold weapons of mass destruction to it's arch enemy.
The only explanation is, that Israel tried to create a case of war with Iran, at that time unsuccessfully.
Dr. Alexander von Paleske
Head, Department of Oncology
Princess Marina Hospital
Gaborone/Botswana/Africa
Ex Barrister-at-Law, High Court Frankfurt (M), Germany
Links
US Prepares to attack Iran-(Alexander von Paleske), MMEGI 28 Feb. 2007
Death of a Mercenary (Yossi Melman) Ha'aretz 15 April 2005
Transport of Weapons of mass destruction to Iran by Israel and Britain- ()Alexander von Paleske), Indymedia UK14.4.2006
www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/04/338295.html
US aginst Iran-Apocalypse now?
www.oraclesyndicate.twoday.net/stories/3347002/
British agents helped Iran to make killer gas - Observer 13 June 1999
Spooky People - Guardian 22 Jan 1999
Chemical chronology NTI
www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Iran/Chemical/2340_2964.html
Manbar wasn't alone - Jerusalem Post 17 July 1998
Civil disrespect (Dan Izenberg) Jerusalem Post 3 June 2004
Death of a Mercenary (Yossi Melman) Ha'aretz 15 April 2005
Dr. Alexander von Paleske
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Enough now Indymedia UK
08.03.2007 08:58
Of course there are problems in Israel, of course publicity should be given to abuses by the Israeli government if and when it occurs but the non stop posting of what are in effect Jew bashing articles is pathetic and racist.
What might be called the Left in the UK has done far to little to deal with the anti semitism that is a cancer within the movement. Indymedia has a similar although far bigger problem as much of the racism is blatent and repeated. Holocaust denial, hiding of posts about attacks on Jews, revisionist articles, support for Hamas terrorism and faked photos are all daily fare. What is worse is the attempt to defend this racism, comments which show the truth are hidden, posts providing facts about a situation or event are either edited or simply removed. Questions emailed to the lists are ignored and removed from the archive and those who have tried to the improve the site have quickly been tagged as Trolls to prevent their voices being heard.
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the last comment is stupid
08.03.2007 21:59
the idea that the israelis were trying to create a case for war against iran by selling weapons to the iranians is typical conspiracy theory at its worst.
Maybe they were just selling them to make some money, or to help the iranians in their war against the iraqis.
gabriel
yeah, that would never happen!
09.03.2007 11:43
(throws smith and western at feet)
'Pick up the gun ... go on Iranian, pick up the gun'
Bullies and barstards don't change.
jack palance
Stupid? Conspiracy?
09.03.2007 15:23
The First Gulf War (Desert Storm) was just over.
The UN weapons inspectors were searching for exactly these weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Israel and the Mi6 are selling at the same time these weapons of mass destruction to neighboring Iran.
For a war that is over? For a bit of money?Do you really believe that?
Don't forget, the alleged posession of these weapons of mass destruction by Saddam Hussein was the (pretended) cause for attacking Iraq in 2003.
Dr. Alexander von Paleske
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