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Well, firstly, these are allegations, not facts, coming from a journalist who works for the Washington Times - the newspaper owned by a guy called Moon that truly believes he is the Messiah and has saved the souls of Hitler and Stalin from eternal damnation and has very likely sold nuclear missle-capable submarines to North Korea. So there are a number of aspects that would need some rather solid 3rd party corraboration, such as:
- Were any French/German/Russian weapons used as stated?
- If so, did France/Germany/Russia provide those weapons or did they come from another source outside their control?
- When were the weapons sold to the Ba'athists?
Secondly, Halliburton is not selling arms to Iran. They are providing oil-field services for Iran through their offshore subsidiary (Halliburton Products and Services, Ltd.) in the Cayman Islands - which has no employees and has all their mail forwarded to their Texas headquarters. It is illegal in the U.S. for a U.S. company to do business with a number of countries, including Iran. Loop holes are wonderful things. The U.S. is actively engaged in attempting to prevent the Iranians from acquiring the means of developing nuclear weapons. End result: rather significant.
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