Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Persio e i suoi berlusconismi

http://www.debka.com/article/8574/
Italian-Iranian trade thrives, supports Tehran's nuclear program
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 31, 2010, 9:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tags:  Iran   Israel   Italy   nuclear program
Iran's Shehab 3 ballistic missile
Italian-Iranian trade thrives, supports Tehran's nuclear program
debkafile Exclusive Report
" Israel has no bigger friend," said prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu 
of Silvio Berlusconi, who begins an official visit to Israel with half a 
dozen ministers Monday, Feb. 1. According to the fat trade contracts 
current with Tehran, Italy would be more accurately described as "Iran's 
biggest friend" - at least, in Europe, where the Berlusconi government 
is also fighting to spare the Islamic Republic further sanctions.
The Israeli prime minister by shrugging off the dark side of 
Berlusconi's foreign relations does no favors to his and Israel's 
credibility at home or abroad. The Iranian menace, which Netanyahu harps 
on in every speech, is greatly enlarged, as he knows very well, by the 
support Tehran enjoys from its big trading partners like Italy. 
debkafile's sources list seven glaring examples of the thriving 
relations between Italy and Iran:
1. Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini recently warned the European 
Union, on direct orders from Berlusconi, to refrain from expanding 
sanctions against Iran for its nuclear violations: "We must not burn 
every bridge," he said, "because Iran is a key figure and we must avoid 
those [sanctions] that are connected with Iranian national pride."
2.  Encouraged by the Rome government, more than 1,000 Italian firms 
operate inside Iran, including the energy giant Eni, Fiat Ansaldo, 
Danieli-Duferco and Maire Technimont.
3.  Only this month, Maire Tecnimont signed a contract for the purchase 
  of 220 million euros-worth of Iranian gas to Italy. This company also 
furnishes the Iranian army, as well as its space and nuclear programs, 
with equipment.
4. Carlo Gavazzi Space is helping Iran construct its Mesbah 
communications satellite, even though this program is the front for the 
manufacture of surveillance satellites for spying on Israel.
5. The Iveco, a subsidiary of Fiat, supplies the Iranian army and 
Revolutionary Guards with their fleets of heavy trucks. They are seen at 
every military parade in Tehran, trundling past carrying Iranian 
ballistic missiles.
6.  Levrievo speed boats, made by the Italian FB Design, are the model 
for the swift craft used as seaborne bombs by the Revolutionary Guards 
marine units and the Hizballah commando squads, which are currently 
training in Iran for in-depth terrorist raids in Israel.
7.  The large Italian construction firm Seli is the source of Iran's 
heavy earthmoving equipment for digging tunnels. Its personnel work 
closely with the Iranian Ghaem company, which US intelligence has 
discovered to be an arm of the Revolutionary Guards. Italian heavy 
equipment therefore helps burrow the secret fortified bunkers where Iran 
conceals banned projects of its nuclear program and a top priority as US 
or Israeli targets of attack.
The Italians claim all these transactions as civilian in nature and they 
have no idea what eventual use Iran may make its purchases.

 biggest friend"
sento, pericoloso, il tintinnar di sciabole dei fasci militari di
Debka. C'è un golpe in arrivo nell'UDDMO?