Rudy Giuliani's newest gig is almost too sleazy to be true
Once a hawk on Iran, the former New York mayor now seeks the release of Tehran's top suspected bag man
JEFFERSON MORLEY, ALTERNET
Once upon a time, Rudy Giuliani was tough on Iran.
Last August, when the Obama administration returned $440 million from frozen Iranian bank accounts to Iran as part of the international deal to shutter Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Giuliani said, “I call that trading with the enemy.”
Now Guiliani is defending in U.S. federal court a wealthy Turkish businessman who sought to flout U.S. and international sanctions on behalf of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. Last month Giuliani joined the legal defense team of Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian dual national who is under indictment for, you guessed it, trading with the enemy.
Zarrab, who is being held in New York, has pleaded not guilty to four counts of conspiring to process hundreds of millions of dollars in financial transactions for Iranian businesses or Iran’s government from 2010 to 2015.
Iran’s money man
According to the indictment, Zarrab’s staff drafted a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei in 2013, praising him for “neutralizing” U.S. sanctions. The letter expressed the hope that “the efforts and cooperation of the zealous children of Islamic Iran will result in an upward increase in the progress of our dear nation in all international and financial arenas.”
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