Germany charges 2 for exporting long-range missile equipment to Iran
If Europe were not so deeply asleep, this might wake them up to the reality that Israel is the first - but not the last - target of an Iranian nuclear bomb. Two men have been arrested in Germany for exporting equipment to Iran for use in making long-range nuclear warheads. The suspects identified as Iranian citizen Mohsen Afrasiabi, 52, and German businessman Heinz Ulrich K., 65, stand accused of buying from a German firm a furnace used in making warheads and missile guidance systems heat resistant.But don't worry - the Germans don't see any connection between incidents like these and their refusal to go along with sanctions against Iran.
Afrasiabi, was previously charged in April in the same affair, together with German-Iranian engineer Behzad S.
The federal prosecutor's office said it had now expanded the case against Afrasiabi in formal charges filed on August 5 and that he would face trial on an unspecified date in the western city of Duesseldorf.
Afrasiabi was arrested in October following a series of raids at commercial and private premises around Germany but was released in April on bail, prosecutors said. Heinz Ulrich K. is also currently a free man.
Both are accused of violating an arms embargo against Iran as well as European Union export restrictions on goods that can be used for both civil and military purposes.
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Afrasiabi, tapped by a "leading employee of Iran's missile program" in 2004, bought the furnace from the German firm in 2007 for 850,000 euros ($1.1 million), prosecutors charge.
Heinz Ulrich K. allegedly told German customs that Afrasiabi was the final recipient.
The furnace was then shipped to Iran and in March 2008 the German firm began to install it.
They stopped work however after learning that Afrasiabi was suspected of working for Tehran but the Iranian clients had what they needed to continue with production, prosecutors said. It is unclear whether the project carried on.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:05 AM
1 Comments:
Asleep? The Euros and Russians are definitely not asleep. Having lived in Germany and heard the chitter chatter, I've never thought anything other than that the Euros and the Russians have followed the Jews who escaped their death clutches and are aiding and abetting Israel's neighbors to finish the job. And the techies throughout the world (even the U.S.) are just sitting and watching it happen... because they will be pleased to have Israel's technology development pace hampered. They'll pretend that it is nothing to do with them, but they are complicit by not speaking out against things done against Israel. Nauseating? Yes. Asleep? No.
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