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Sources that says that ”Iran claims this and that” are not proof of anything.go search about UHDE Ltd. and Hoechst AG. and their financing to work in Iraq by UK's Export Credits Guarantee Department
Iran pursues German companies that gave Saddam Hussein chemical weapons
Iran vowed on Wednesday to take action against German companies for supplying the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons. Ismail Baqai Hamaneh, Tehran’s representative at the United Nations in Geneva , told the UN-linked Conference on Disarmament: “Iran will never back down...www.peoplesworld.org
for the record the case went to court and some European convicted .
but as always a certain Swedish person want to deny the sun .
Approving finance is not shipping chemical weapons.but when you build chemical factory to produce Thuban and mustard I'm not aware of any other use for it or when you approve finance for it .
Vetoing a resolution is not shipping chemical weapons.or when you use your veto power to prevent UNSC condemn Saddam use of chemical weapon against civilian
Providing target information is not shipping chemical weapons.Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran
The U.S. knew Hussein was launching some of the worst chemical attacks in history -- and still gave him a hand.foreignpolicy.com
This is not ”selling chemical weapons”.Leaked report says German and US firms supplied arms to Saddam
Baghdad's uncensored report to UN names Western companies alleged to have developed its weapons of mass destructionwww.independent.co.uk
The Netherlands and the chemical weapons of Iraq – Stop Wapenhandel
stopwapenhandel.org
after 1984 dutch government went to the extend to not mention some precoursor for chemical weapons on manifest to hide their export to iraq and you have the audacity to say European government were not involved and only some individual .
you think you can fool anybody but yourself on the matter
So far you have not proven that the West shipped chemical weapons. They shipped chemicals and technology which Iraq used to develop chemical weapons.
When the Soviet union fell, it's borders shrank heavily.
What happened after wasn't a recovery, it was bandaging the bleeding wound. Russia has been facing disintegration for a while now, and Putin has made the matter worse.
Ukraine will get access to the largest single market union in the world, the EU. It doesn't even need to join NATO.
Russian nuclear threats mean nothing, considering that NATO has made it clear that they WILL get involved militarily as soon as a nuclear weapon is used by Russia. That's why Russia isn't making nuclear threats as much anymore.
RSAF has been flying Typhoons, F-15s in air strikes plus with support from Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain F-16s and F-18s. These airplanes don't run on air. To fly and drop weapons , you need to replinish them. This is where US and UK (or rather the consortium that makes the Typhoon) have very much been at the forefront. I did not talk about casualties, I talked about the war.
And yes there is lots of Yemen vs. Yemen fighting but there is proof of civilians being killed by airstrikes. I won't let you distract from the main point that under no circumstances can this coalition led by Saudi Arabia be flying 1000s of sorties without parts being replinished.
Listen to yourself: 'Saudi Arabian campaign has been limited to Southern, Easter, Northern Yemen'. Wtf is left.
To make the story short: almost the entire Russia invasion army is annihilated. From the initial 200,000 men army there is nothing left. More than half of tanks and heavy equipment were destroyed.
What now coming from Russia offensives, they are resembled of weaklings, cowards, mobies, recruits, convicts, criminals, losers. People you better don’t want to meet them in daylight.
In terms of weapons, Russia T14 tanks will never see in mass production. They can’t build the tank engines. They can’t build the electronics. They can’t make the software.
Russia doesn't want a real war with NATO. Excluding nukes, they be screwed literally.
In fact KSA is producing many of the fighter jet parts locally since a long time ago.
Sure, tanks dont get hurt if they stay at home, peeing old oil out of the suspensions...While Russian tanks get obliterated in Ukraine, US M1 Abrams tanks are getting upgraded with AI targeting sensors
Sources that says that ”Iran claims this and that” are not proof of anything.
Convicted of what?
There is proof that the sun exist.
Approving finance is not shipping chemical weapons.
Vetoing a resolution is not shipping chemical weapons.
Providing target information is not shipping chemical weapons.
This is not ”selling chemical weapons”.
”American weapons experts have recently voiced concern that the German Government has permitted Siemens to sell Baghdad at least eight sophisticated medical machines which contain devices that are vital for nuclear weapons. The machines, known as "lithotripters", use ultrasound to destroy kidney stones in patients.”
Steel is a precursor to the atom bomb as it is enclosed in steel.
That does not make steel an atom bomb.
With ”proof” like this, I guess conviction is guaranteed.
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So far you have not proven that the West shipped chemical weapons. They shipped chemicals and technology which Iraq used to develop chemical weapons.
Meanwhile Iran is continuing its terrorist agenda.
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The work of 50y on energy links to Europe. Putin flushed down the toilet overnight. Even if the war stops tomorrow it would take 50y to repair the damage.Sanctions have pushed Russia to sell Urals at an average price of $49.48 a barrel last month, a 41 per cent drop year on year and well below of the $70-a-barrel level assumed in Russia’s budget.
Financial Times
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
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Russian deficit hits $25bn
MAX SEDDON AND ANASTASIA STOGNEI
Moscow’s budget gap has soared as the Kremlin steps up defence spending while western sanctions begin to bite into oil and gas revenues.
Russia’s budget deficit hit Rbs1.76tn ($25bn) in January as the Kremlin stepped up defence spending and western sanctions began to hit the country’s oil and gas revenue.
The official figures are the latest sign of the damage the invasion of Ukraine continues to wreak on the economy nearly a year into President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Revenue from oil and gas fell 46 per cent year on year to Rbs426bn, the finance ministry said yesterday, blaming the drop on falling prices for Urals, its main crude export blend, and a decline in natural gas exports. Urals has traded at a significant discount to the global benchmark Brent product since the conflict began in late February 2022.
Expenditure ballooned by 59 per cent year on year to Rbs3.12tn in January 2023, amid largely classified plans to ramp up defence spending to Rbs3.5tn this year. Ukrainian officials have warned in recent days they believe Russia is set to launch a big offensive in the coming weeks to mark the first anniversary of the conflict.
Natalia Lavrova, chief economist at BCS Global Markets, the investment banking arm of the brokerage, said the figures marked the first time in its modern history that Russia had increased spending drastically at a time when revenues were falling sharply.
“The only time we saw something similar was in 2015, when spending on national defence increased sharply,” she said. “However, the huge difference between 2015 and 2023 is that, back then, the revenues dynamics was not as disastrous.”
The drop in oil and gas revenue was accompanied by a 28 per cent fall in other revenue to Rbs931bn, the finance ministry said, ascribing it to a decline in value added tax and corporate tax takings. The only similar decline in tax revenues on record was during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Lavrova said, when Russia imposed extensive lockdown measures.
“It is obvious that budgetary risks are increasing: both on the spending and revenue sides,” Lavrova added.
Moscow, which typically derives up to half of its revenues from oil and gas, offset the blow to its economy from western sanctions through increased volumes of discounted energy sales to countries such as China and India amid record energy prices last year.
But Putin’s “economic mobilisation” drive to support the war effort has driven up spending, while the sanctions have pushed Russia to sell Urals at an average price of $49.48 a barrel last month, a 41 per cent drop year on year and well below of the $70-a-barrel level assumed in Russia’s budget.
The ongoing hit to Russia’s coffers has prompted the finance ministry to look for ways to compensate for the widening deficit. Russia sold Rbs38.5bn of Chinese yuan and gold from its rainy-day National Welfare Fund last month and plans to issue Rbs800bn in local bonds in the first quarter of 2023 as part of a move to raise this year’s domestic borrowing to Rbs2.5tn, from a previously planned Rbs1.7tn.
This is not ”selling chemical weapons”.
”American weapons experts have recently voiced concern that the German Government has permitted Siemens to sell Baghdad at least eight sophisticated medical machines which contain devices that are vital for nuclear weapons. The machines, known as "lithotripters", use ultrasound to destroy kidney stones in patients.”
”Precursor chemical weapons” are not chemical weapons.