Reply #21: Halliburton operates in Iran despite sanctions

[Amonester]

Halliburton operates in Iran despite sanctions
How do U.S. contractors legally do business there?

U.S. businesses find work in Iran
March 7: U.S. companies have been banned from doing business with Iran, but Halliburton and other American companies continue to work inside the country. How? NBC's Lisa Myers examines.

Lisa Myers
Senior investigative correspondent
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By Lisa Myers & the NBC investigative unit
updated 12:24 a.m. CT, Tues., March. 8, 2005

It's just another Halliburton oil and gas operation. The company name is emblazoned everywhere: On trucks, equipment, large storage silos and workers' uniforms.

But this isn't Texas. It's Iran. U.S. companies aren't supposed to do business here.

Yet, in January, Halliburton won a contract to drill at a huge Iranian gas field called Pars, which an Iranian government spokesman said "served the interests" of Iran.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7119752 /


Get a clue.