Representing Jewish Communities in 100 Countries Across Six Continents
Representing Jewish Communities in 100 Countries Across Six Continents
07 February 2011
Iran and Turkey have signed a trade pact which Tehran said could be worth up to US$ 30 billion over five years. "Iran and Turkey are two countries that complete each other," Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted by Turkey's Anadolu news agency as saying. Turkish State Minister Cevdet Yilmaz noted that trade between his nation and Iran has risen from US$ 1 billion to US$ 10.7 billion in the past decade. Still, he said that it could go even further, with the latest pact to ratchet down protectionist measures and promote cooperation potentially instrumental to that cause.
Meanwhile, two Americans who were arrested in Iran 18 months ago on suspicion of spying went on trial in Tehran. They both pleaded not guilty. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were arrested on in July 2009 near Iran's border with Iraq, along with a third American, Sarah Shourd, who was released on US$ 500,000 bail in September and has returned home. The three have said they were hiking in the mountains of northern Iraq and, if they crossed the unmarked border into Iran, it was by mistake. Under Iranian law, espionage can carry the death penalty.
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Rehmat the story of manipulation of US psnoien funds by zionist organizations, including UJF, has not been told boldly enough. Once again using Iran as the boogey man, zionist organizations embarked on a nationwide campaign to induce state employees' and teachers psnoien funds to divest from shares in international companies doing business with Iran, EVEN WHEN and EVEN THO those positions formed the safest and surest portion of the psnoien funds' portfolio.California was the first state to so dives and was used as a model by UJF. Today, California's psnoien fund is bankrupt. Cause and effect relationship? That would be unfair to assert. But it certainly didn't help California's psnoienersand psnoien fund managers to have to navigate around threats of financial punishment from zionists AS WELL AS the normal difficulties of maintaining a massive portfolio.Similarly, when the US economy is in deep trouble, why has the US Treasury created an office, directed by Stuart Levey, to go around the world threatening and strong-arming companies that do business with Iran, exacting fines from them for transacting with Iran? Doesn't the US Treasury Dept have enough to do to keep the US fiscal house in order?
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