Delfin accused of exports to Iran

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JobbersWorld reports that the Bureau of Industry and Security, through its Office of Export Enforcement (OEE), has issued an Order temporarily denying the Delfin Group USA and it's president, Markos Baghdasarian, export privileges for a period of 180 days.

"According to the BIS Order, the OEE presented evidence that beginning in or about mid-2010, and continuing thereafter, Delfin Group USA LLC and its president, Markos Baghdasarian, conspired with multiple entities and individuals, including entities and individuals located in the United Arab Emirates (UEA) to export U.S.-origin items subject to the Regulations from the United States to Iran, via transshipment through the UAE, without obtaining the required authorization from the U.S. Government."

The products involved included lubricating oils or oil additives, including aviation engine lubricating oils. Delfin is accused of using a freight forwarding company that their president is also the CEO of to facilitate the exports.

Delfin, a division of a Russian firm, markets the Spectrol brand and Ultimate brand of motor oils in the USA.

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That guy who owns Delfin is doing the RIGHT thing, he is IGNORING the undeclared economic warfare against a sovereign nation called Iran, that has NOT started a war against ANY other country in nearly 250 years!
 
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Originally Posted By: antiqueshell
That guy who owns Delfin is doing the RIGHT thing, he is IGNORING the undeclared economic warfare against a sovereign nation called Iran, that has NOT started a war against ANY other country in nearly 250 years!

Technically your statement is only true because no other country has declared war against Iran. Iran has provoked war many times, and they are a known terrorist harboring nation...
 
Iran deserves anything they get. They are extremely militarized and major instigators in the region. Syria is basically their stooge, and they give weapons, money, and logistical support to many enemies of the US and other countries they dislike.

Sort of like the old Russia...
 
Originally Posted By: antiqueshell
That guy who owns Delfin is doing the RIGHT thing, he is IGNORING the undeclared economic warfare against a sovereign nation called Iran, that has NOT started a war against ANY other country in nearly 250 years!

I might buy this if Ahminbumajabbed hadn't promised to destroy the state of Israel on a regular basis. He may be only a string puppet for the clerics, and his bluster may be only for internal consumption, but in the diplomatic world, words have consequences.
 
One must always distinguish between the Iranian people and the Koolaid drinkers who run the place by fear and intimidation.
 
Originally Posted By: HerrStig
One must always distinguish between the Iranian people and the Koolaid drinkers who run the place by fear and intimidation.


Absolutely agreed. I have many wealthy Iranian clients who live here full time and are deeply troubled by the situation there.
 
Originally Posted By: HerrStig
One must always distinguish between the Iranian people and the Koolaid drinkers who run the place by fear and intimidation.


+1. I feel badly for the people there.
 
Latest news is that Iran is still exporting oil, with their tanker going dark (not tracked), to the far east with China and South Korea. They are doing deep discount by providing free transport and insurance that can cost up to $10M per shipment.

In some way I think it is by design. We don't really want the world crude supply, especially the light sweet crude from Arab, to stop, but we want to punish Iran by forcing them to go into deep discount. So we turn a blind eye to this practice.
 
Originally Posted By: HerrStig
Originally Posted By: antiqueshell
That guy who owns Delfin is doing the RIGHT thing, he is IGNORING the undeclared economic warfare against a sovereign nation called Iran, that has NOT started a war against ANY other country in nearly 250 years!

I might buy this if Ahminbumajabbed hadn't promised to destroy the state of Israel on a regular basis.


You better buy it then, because he didn't say it...he's "reported" to have said it in dodgy translations that suit people's agendas.

Even the people supporting the sanctions don't beleive that there's a bomb programme.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-de...eapons-1.426389
 
yeah, he's really a nice guy. Why is everyone being so mean to him?

he just bought that recent batch of 1000 centrifuges for his hobby, that's it!
 
What was all the Al tubing in Iraq a pretence for ?

And now the chief informant comes out with "I lied, bu it was worth it".
 
Originally Posted By: Shannow

You better buy it then, because he didn't say it...he's "reported" to have said it in dodgy translations that suit people's agendas.

Even the people supporting the sanctions don't beleive that there's a bomb programme.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-de...eapons-1.426389

I think you better read your link again:
Quote:
"Clearly, the more the Iranians progress the worse the situation is. This is a critical year, but not necessarily 'go, no-go.' The problem doesn't necessarily stop on December 31, 2012. We're in a period when something must happen: Either Iran takes its nuclear program to a civilian footing only or the world, perhaps we too, will have to do something. We're closer to the end of the discussions than the middle."


He's saying that it can go either way and it's at the full discretion of the people in charge.

The people in charge are the same ones that were slaughtering their own people just a couple of years ago. Should those same people be trusted with such devastating technology?
 
That's exactly what he's saying, that there is no evidence of heading to 90%, and that's another decision point in what's being sold as a legal, civilian programme.
 
I don't know, or care, if Iran has a nuclear program or not, because nowadays nuclear weapon is merely a stick that you will never use (unless you are an idiot like North Korea who keep testing it).

But in a big oil supplying nation, merely the mentioning of possibility of having such program will cause fear and jack up price, and bargaining power, to serve your purposes at maximizing profit and getting your enemy into panic, wasting their resources, etc. It already accomplish its goal.

The reality is, it doesn't matter whether Iran has nuclear program or not, it already works for them and our punishment of not letting them sell oil is hurting both them and us. They still keep this up because they want to use external conflict to control their own people (common practice in dictatorships), and they are still selling a lot of oil to nations that can't live with reduced supply (i.e. China, India, South Korea, etc)
 
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