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Tricky Dick

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Halliburton, the oil services company once headed by Vice President Dick was secretly working with one of Iran’s top nuclear scientists on natural gas related projects and, allegedly, selling the scientists’ oil company key components for a nuclear reactor.

Three Iranian MPs sharply lashed out at Iranian oil company Kish Oriental’s cooperation with the US-based Halliburton Co, describing the move as ‘a threat to Iran’s nuclear stance’ … Effat Shariati, Fatemeh Ajorlou and Eshrat Shaeq in a joint letter said: “A senior Iranian diplomat and member of Iran’s nuclear negotiating team with the help of an official of the UN bureau in Iran has registered his private oil company in Britain and Dubai [apparently referring to Sirous Naseri and his Kish Oriental Company] and now for his own benefit has signed an agreement with Halliburton, run by US vice President Dick Cheney.”

Asked whether the presence of the US oil and gas giant Halliburton in a major energy project in Iran means a thaw in relations, [Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid Reza] Asefi said “Iran’s energy sector was more interested in competitive prices offered by the American company” than the country it belongs to. “The Americans have imposed sanctions on Iran but Iran has not reciprocated,” he said, adding that the project in which Halliburton is participating serves the Islamic state’s interests.

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