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After Iran's nuclear pact, state firms win most foreign deals

Reuters analysis shows that businesses which answer ultimately to the Supreme Leader stand to gain from it

Setad Ejraiye Farman-e Hazrat-e Emam, also called EIKO, an organization overseen by Khamenei with stakes in nearly every sector of Iran’s economy.

National Iranian Oil Company, large semi-public conglomerates whose top executives are chosen by ministers, and companies owned by government pension funds

One of them is Razavi Oil and Gas Development Co., which agreed in April to discuss developing a gas field with Saipem, an Italian oil and gas company

Another winner in this category is Setad. A 2013 investigation by Reuters found Setad built an empire worth about $95 billion on the seizure of thousands of properties belonging to religious minorities, business people, and Iranians living abroad.

>In 2013, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned Setad, calling it a “major network of front companies controlled by Iran’s leadership.

The other two deals were with Barakat Pharmed, a Setad-owned pharmaceutical company. Nasrallah Fathiyan, a Barakat official, told Reuters that Khamenei doesn’t own Barakat, but that “his supervision is basically guiding all of this investment.” Some of Barakat’s profits, Fathiyan said, go to Setad’s charity arm.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-contracts-insight/after-irans-nuclear-pact-state-firms-win-most-foreign-deals-idUSKBN15328S

HOLY COW!

Did anyone know it was Mike Pompeo that discovered the secret side deals between Iran and the IAEA?

The agreements were uncovered, completely by chance, by two members of Congress — Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) — who were in Vienna meeting with the U.N.-releated agency.

In an interview, Pompeo told me that he and Cotton were meeting with the deputy director of the IAEA and the agency’s two top Iran negotiators just days after the nuclear accord was announced, when they asked how the agency will carry out verification at the Iranian military complex at Parchin. IAEA officials told them, quite casually, that the details were all covered in agreements negotiated between the IAEA and the Iranian government. It was the first they had heard of the side deals.

‘No, Secretary Kerry hasn’t seen them. No American is ever going to get to see them.’ ”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-secret-iran-deals-exposed/2015/07/27/26d14dbc-3460-11e5-8e66-07b4603ec92a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9a4b702db280

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IKR? But that was before Potus and TDS set in. It actually bashed BHO a little bit.