From: Ad 

Ah the old days are always still around....

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/797437.html

Basically the Israelis owe the Iranians for oil delivered under the Shah
& then oddly not paid for following the Shah's fall.

Everyone wanted to keep this quiet as Iranians & Israelis sitting down
to discuss money is just too .....normal.....to for either side....&
apparantly thus normal is embarrassing...for both.

Anyway.....the entertainment & where it gets even more embarrassing for
all concerned is that it's a complex argument as there were things wrt
arms....which the Iranians declined to pay for post revolution & thus
must be contra'ed off against the debt etc.....which means cataloging what
those arms/security.....arrangements were....

"From the time that Iran de facto recognized Israel in 1951,
increasingly close relations developed between the two countries, until the
1970s when they reached a point of strategic partnership. This partnership
had four main components: Iranian assistance for the immigration operations
for Jews from Iraq; Israeli-Iranian cooperation in the area of intelligence
(the Mossad, the Shin Bet security services and the Israel Defense Forces
helped to establish, train and operate the Iranian army and the units of
Sawak - the Iranian security service. In exchange, Israel's intelligence
organizations received Iranian assistance in gathering information and
operating agents in Iraq to assist the Kurdish revolt); agreements for
military cooperation; and the supply of Iranian oil to Israel.

Beginning in 1975, the military cooperation focused on an Iranian
investment of $1.2 billion in several research and development initiatives
of Israeli armaments. These initiatives, whose code name was Tzur, included
the establishment of a Soltam munitions plant in Iran, the development of
the Lavi fighter plane, the development of a sea-to-sea missile based on
Gabriel technology, and according to foreign sources, the development of an
upgraded ground-to-ground missile, whose range at the time was about 600
kilometers. By the time Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came to power in 1979,
ending the cooperation, Israel had managed to transfer the plans for the
missile to Iran. "


Iranian secret police & mil tech wrt fighter planes, Anti-ship
missiles, Ground to ground SRBM'es...munitions....hummmmm oh yes now I can
see why this might be embarrassing....

Adam

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