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| Dubai: The U.S.'s Back Door To Iran |
| 2008-08-14 |
| NO, it's not about a white whale....A long read, but worth the slog...I am especially entertained by the P&G position of protecting Iranian consumers by violating US Sanctions.....marketing wench.....SHEESH!: The ship’s captain asks if I’m looking to smuggle something. We’re standing alongside a busy stretch of Port Saeed, on Dubai Creek, which is not actually a creek but a mucky Palmolive-green waterway, trash-strewn and oily, that stretches about eight miles through a thicket of shiny skyscrapers before draining into the Persian Gulf. It’s March, the sun is blasting down; the air is redolent of diesel fuel. The captain’s name is Khaled, and he’s headed to Bandar Abbas, Iran—about 100 miles northeast, nine hours by sea. “We’re leaving in a week,” he says. |
| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #3 USN, I think this calls for the "secret nuclear bunker" graphic. |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2008-08-14 21:45 |
| #2 Yah, the UAE end runs sanctions on Iran. They also deal directly with Ayatollah owned companies. And the UAE is projected to run out of oil in 2017. Soon all those highrises will be ours. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-08-14 20:45 |
| #1 Seems to me that if the USDOS really cared, they could pay a visit to any of the manufacturers of the goods mentioned in the article and offer a little trade: allow 'da boyz' to intstall super secret kill switches in the goods ( the kind that could discreetly and slowly disable stuff) or face EAR violations and all the bad press and big fines/jail time that come from same. Sounds to me like we may not be that serious about Iran (but then that may not exactly be a news flash). |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2008-08-14 16:48 |