Tehran, YJC. Former Iranian ambassador to Germany says the US builds criminal files against banks that work with Iran.
Alireza Sheikh Attar who is back home following the end of his mission to
Germany, in interview with Fars said "The US brings charges against
any bank that has worked with Iran. The latest example of such case was the
French bank which the US fined $8 billion for a deal with Iran which had been made before the sanctions. Or Standard Chartered, for example was fined $1.5
billion. This means that the US is taking ransom.”
He explained that the US takes ransom for its domination
over the dollar, since all money is transferred from New York.
"Most German companies’ shares are dealt in the New York
Stock Exchange [the Big Board]. German banks have branches in the US and they are in the US
grip,” Sheikh Attar said.
Big Board overseen by former FBI chief
"I remember that this made the reason why a German company
which holds many shares at the New York Stock Exchange had to
grapple with problems. The official in charge of overseeing the Big Board, who
is a former FBI chief, a while back told the company that the company’s
representative in the US had a pool in his house bigger than the company’s
regulations would allow. They formed a commission against the representative on
that alibi, a report of which was published by Der Spiegel. All these had to do
with the large volume of work the company had done with Iran prior to the
sanctions,” the Iranian ex-ambassador stated.
European companies afraid their cooperation with Iran may
be revealed
Right now European companies are afraid of the Israeli lobby
known as American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that’s why they adopt
a conservative approach and are afraid that their relations with Iran turns
public, Sheikh Attar noted.
He added "When about 130 French companies visited Iran,
Germans announced that they would not do that because it was public. But they
would sent their tradesmen at the provincial level.”
"In the past 6 years, we have sent a total of 10 ministers
to Germany, 4 of which belong to the Rouhani administration. Of these 4
ministers, Zarif apart, the other three’s positions were about economy. Although
they did not make the visits official, they met good favor in the meetings
where many companies would attend. There were something between 100 and 300
companies for ministers of energy and agriculture and things are being done with
lights off.”