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Israel verbietet BRD den Bau von 3 LNG-Anlagen im Iran!

 
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BeitragVerfasst am: Mo Aug 04, 2008 5:40 am    Titel: Israel verbietet BRD den Bau von 3 LNG-Anlagen im Iran! Antworten mit Zitat

Germany Defends Gas Equipment Deal with Iran Against Israeli Criticism!
TEHRAN (FNA)-
August 2, 2008

Germany rejected Thursday criticism from Israel over a deal to export gas-liquefaction equipment to Iran.

Officials in Berlin said Steiner Prematechnik Gastec had won export clearance at the end of February for the deal, reportedly worth 100 million euros (160 million dollars).

The three systems are to cool and compress natural gas into liquid form so it can be transported by ship to export customers.

A spokesman for the Economics Ministry in Berlin said petrochemical plant was not restricted by UN trade sanctions imposed on Iran on account of its nuclear-research program. He said Steiner had obtained the permit properly.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry voiced exasperation Thursday at the permit, saying it breached the 'spirit' of the UN sanctions.

This week the Simon Wiesenthal Centre appealed to Berlin to prohibit the deal. Jewish groups have criticized the contract, charging that Germany is fostering economic relations with Iran despite that nation's nuclear program and its threats toward Israel.

The Berlin spokesman said the permit was issued by the federal export controls agency BAFA after careful study established that the plant had no military applications.

"At that point there was no legal grounds to forbid the export," he said.

Steiner, based in the western city of Siegen, has been hired to build the three plants on the southern Iranian coast.

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is transported by ocean when there are no pipelines to transport gas at ambient temperature. The European Union had encouraged the LNG trade to reduce Europe's dependence on piped Russian natural gas.

Israel, the sole owner of nuclear weapons in the Middle-East, and its staunch ally the United States accuse Iran of seeking a nuclear weapon, while they have never presented any corroborative document to substantiate their allegations. Both Washington and Tel Aviv possess advanced weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear warheads.

Iran vehemently denies the charges, insisting that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.

Iran has also insisted that it would continue enriching uranium because it needs to provide fuel to a 300-megawatt light-water reactor it is building in the southwestern town of Darkhoveyn as well as its first nuclear power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr.

Tel Aviv and Washington have recently intensified their threats to launch military action against Iran to make Tehran drop what they allege to be a non-peaceful nuclear program, while a recent report by 16 US intelligence bodies endorsed the civilian nature of Iran's nuclear plans and activities.

Following the US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) and similar reports by the IAEA head - one in November and the other one in February - which praised Iran's truthfulness about key aspects of its past nuclear activities and announced settlement of outstanding issues with Tehran, any effort to impose further sanctions or launch military attack on Iran seems to be completely irrational.

The February report by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, praised Iran's cooperation in clearing up all of the past questions over its nuclear program, vindicating Iran's nuclear program and leaving no justification for any new UN sanctions.

The UN nuclear watchdog has so far carried out at least 14 surprise inspections of Iran's nuclear sites, but found nothing to support the allegations.

Following the said reports by the US and international bodies, many world states have called the UN Security Council pressure against Tehran unjustified, demanding that Iran's case be normalized and returned from the UNSC to the IAEA.

http://www.ccun.org/News/2008/August/1%20n/Germany%20Defends%20Gas%20Equipment%20Deal%20with%20Iran%20Against%20Israeli%20Criticism.htm


Germany Emerging In Iran’s Gas Industry!


    The European Union is encouraging LNG trade with Iran to reduce Europe's dependence on piped Russian natural gas.

Germany gave the nod to the engineering company SPG Steiner Prematechnik Gastec GmbH to build three liquefied natural gas plants in Iran.

The permission came after a 12-month investigation into the project, which has concluded that it does not violate the United Nations’ sanctions against Iran, a government agency spokesperson said.

The order for the three gas plants, with a capacity of 10,000 barrels a day each, is worth about 100 million euros, RTT News reported.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Zionist lobbying group, has appealed to the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to thwart the deal alleging that it goes against isolating Iran’s nuclearization. They claimed ’it would embolden a regime that seeks the destruction of Israel’. However, there was no comment from the economy ministry of Germany.

Germany’s BAFA Federal Office of Economics and Export Control approved the plans by the SPG Steiner Prematechnik Gastec GmbH to export three liquefied natural gas plants to Iran in February, the German Economy Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

Export Clearance

Officials in Berlin said Steiner Prematechnik Gastec had won export clearance at the end of February for the deal, reportedly worth 100 million euros.

The three systems are to cool and compress natural gas into liquid form so it can be transported by ship to export customers.

The German government spokesman said the permit was issued by the federal export controls agency BAFA after careful study established that the plant had no military applications. “At that point there were no legal grounds to forbid the export,“ he said.

Steiner, based in the western city of Siegen, has been hired to build the three plants on the southern Iranian coast.

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is transported by ocean when there are no pipelines to transport gas at ambient temperature. The European Union is encouraging LNG trade with Iran to reduce Europe’s dependence on piped Russian natural gas.

Ineffective Sanctions

Jonathan Betkerle of the Mideast Freedom Forum Berlin said, “The Steiner deal shows that existing sanctions have been ineffective.“ He added that his organization would try to lobby German politicians to help overturn the government decision.

But Beutel said that approval by the control office was made on legal grounds, and not as a matter of policy or political opinion.

“Our role is merely to decide whether this proposal falls within the existing EU and German laws, and it accomplishes that,“ Beutel said.
Under Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany has cut back trade with Iran as part of Western-led efforts to force Tehran to suspend its uranium enrichment program. German exports to Iran shrank to $5.04 billion in 2007 from $6.77 billion in 2006, according to figures released in February by the German Economic Ministry.

However, the surging international oil price has helped Iran. Iran brought in some $54 billion in oil-export revenue in the first six months of this year, compared with an estimated $57 billion for all of 2007, the newspaper quoted US Energy Information as saying.

Hunger for Gas

Europe’s hunger for natural gas and its lack of reliable suppliers is leading several countries to court Iran. This is a delicate situation for the European Union, which also wants to keep the pressure on Tehran to give up its nuclear power program.

A look at projections for future gas supplies demonstrates the predicament. By 2030, EuropeÊwill depend on foreign producers for 85 percent of its gas, a big jump from the current 57 percent. Further, many European countries are uncomfortable with their reliance on Russian gas giant Gazprom, and are eager to find suppliers that don’t dance to the Kremlin’s tune.

Some analysts believe energy needs and security of supply concerns will eventually outweigh geopolitical differences with Tehran.

Iran now has an annual export capacity of 247 billion cubic feet, which according to Wood Mackenzie is expected to increase more than 10-fold to over 2.8 trillion cubic feet by 2020. Those exports will likely be split evenly between Europe and Asia, with India and Pakistan the key Asian customers.

Iran’s main western markets will be Turkey, Italy and Greece, reaching all the way up to Austria.

Europe will continue to meet most of its new requirement through Russia and Norway, although the Middle East, North Africa and the Central Asian republics will take a bigger share.

http://www.iran-daily.com/1387/3186/html/economy.htm


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