1976: Cheney, Rumsfeld Lobby for Nuclear Power Plant in Iran

[wizstars]

I just stumbled across this while looking for something else. DAMN!

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a76dickrummyiran#a76dickrummyiran

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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and White House Chief of Staff Dick Cheney unsuccessfully lobby for the construction of a nuclear reprocessing plant in Iran. The two men devised the scheme because, they say, Iran needs a nuclear power program to meet its future energy needs. This is despite the fact that Iran has considerable oil and gas reserves. The deal would be lucrative for US corporations like Westinghouse and General Electric, which would make $6.4 billion from the project. During negotiations over Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger offers Pakistan access to this facility for reprocessing of its nuclear fuel. In return, Pakistan would not build its own reprocessing plant, which the US suspects will be used for a nuclear weapons program.

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DAMN!

[Richard Steele]

1. Nice find! K&R

[City Lights]

2. They'd literally do *anything* for a buck.

Great find!

Rec'd.

[progressoid]

3. "What the heck. If that doesn't work, out we can always sell WMDs to their neighbors in a few years"

[unblock]

4. that was prior to the iranian revolution

though i'm sure part of their lobbying efforts involved assuring people that the shah or some other cia stooge would continue their solid grip on the country for at least the next 10,000 years....

[AwakeAtLast]

5. Why doesn't this have more recs?

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And R!