And the Iranian Mortar Story Keeps Growing

From There’s No Such Thing as a Blog:

The following is another subsidiary of Iran Defense Industry Organization:

 http://ieimil.com/ar_sa/main.aspx

Notice anything? Right, it’s in Arabic (or Farsi, I can’t tell the difference)! How sensible, what with those being the local tongues and all. They also have an English site:

 http://ieimil.com/main.aspx

Now, don’t get me wrong, English is indeed the lingua franca of international commerce, but as I mentioned in the post below, it seems MIGHTY peculiar that a defense contractor doing business with a great many Arab nations would have information on their products in Arabic. And indeed, the electronics arm of that contractor does advertise their wares in Arabic, but the munitions arm doesn’t?

But Wait! There’s more!

This is the website for the Iranian Marine Industries Group:

 http://www.irmig.ir/

Again, the page is in Farsi AND Arabic, in addition to English, just as one would expect.

Why is it that apparently, the only arms of Iranian military contractors who don’t have a website in Arabic or Farsi are those whose products are the target of American accusation? Something is afoot, yet I know not what…

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Why is the Iranian Ammunition Industries Group’s webpage in English?

 http://www.iramig.ir/Products/Mortar%20Bombs.htm

Moreover, why is the page of their parent organization in English?

 http://www.diomil.ir/en/home.aspx

Stranger still, why does the Farsi version of the site look like this? Under Construction? Something smells funny here, and I don’t think it was the toast I just burnt.

 http://www.diomil.ir/fa/home.aspx

Finally, the Arabic version of the site also doesn’t exist.

 http://www.diomil.ir/ar/home.aspx

Now for what possible reason would an Iranian company have a website in English but not in their native language, nor in the language of the majority of their neighbors? It makes no sense!

WHOIS data returns the following for  http://www.iramig.ir

domain: iramig.ir
remarks: (Domain Holder) iran amination indutries group
remarks: (Domain Holder Address) Pasdaran Ave., Maham Industries Tehran, IR 1676501835
admin-c: nic8792h15
tech-c: nic8790h96
zone-c: nic8809h15
nserver: ns1.cressnet.ir
source: NICIR # Filtered

person: alireza hedayati
remarks: ---
address: malek ashtar university of technologg(mut)-lavizan-tehran
e-mail:
phone: 021-22549636
fax-no: 021-22948243
nic-hdl: nic8792h15
source: NICIR # Filtered

person: farshid majidfar
remarks: ---
address: malek ashtar university of technologg(mut)-lavizan-tehran
e-mail:
phone: 021-2549636
fax-no: 021-2948243
nic-hdl: nic8790h96
source: NICIR # Filtered

person: hossein shirazi
remarks: ---
address: malek ashtar university of technologg (mut) -
e-mail:
phone: 2549636
fax-no: 2948233
nic-hdl: nic8809h15
source: NICIR # Filtered

And this is the WHOIS Data for  http://www.diomil.ir

domain: diomil.ir
remarks: (Domain Holder) Moavenat Tejarat &Omoor Beynolmelal (sanayee defae)
remarks: (Domain Holder Address) Pasdaran St,Chahar Rah Pasdaran ,Sanayee Defae tehran, IR 1957975713
admin-c: nic6814h97
tech-c: nic6814h97
zone-c: nic6814h97
nserver: ns.isiran.com
nserver: ns2.isiran.com
source: NICIR # Filtered

person: Mehdi Taebi
remarks: ---
address: Isiran Ins., shahid langari st., nobonyad sq., pasdaran st., tehran, Iran.
e-mail:
phone: 22801834
fax-no: 22806725
nic-hdl: nic6814h97
source: NICIR # Filtered

Googling the names of each of these registrants proved mostly fruitless, save for one telling find: Omoor Beynolmelal

Apparently, Mr. Omoor Beynolmelal is also the registrant of the following website as well:  http://www.qodstv.ir/

Notice that it’s in Farsi, and is a vastly more complex page than this:  http://www.diomil.ir

Also, notice that he has an English version of  http://www.qodstv.ir/ at the following URL:

 http://www.qodstv.ir/en/index.php

Clearly, the lack of a Farsi version of this page  http://www.diomil.ir simultaneous with the existence of a Farsi version of this page  http://www.qodstv.ir/ indicates that something is going on here.