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Originally Posted by OpieCunningham
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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How exactly does oil-field services help in developing nuclear weapons? It might result in more cash for the Iranians, but they would have gotten that anyway if one of many other companies did this work. End result: not that significant.
