Iranian Trade With Iraq


	Iranian Trade With Iraq

cptenaud

7-18-2008 9:45 AM

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cptenaud says:

But since Saddam's ouster, there has been deluge of Iranian goods into the country, particularly in the strip from Baghdad to Basra, said anthropologist Hosham Dawod from the French national center for scientific research.

"Some sources quote figures such as $8 billion," for the value of Iranian imports in 2008, he said, but added there were no official figures on import levels.

'Iranian products are not truly political tools' - shoppers in the Shiite district of Kadhimiyya in northwest Baghdad snatch up not only Iranian-made cookers, fridges, air conditioning units and generators, but also toys, rugs and medicines.

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7-18-2008 9:48 AM

cptenaud

Sad but true (0.00 / 0)
our foreign policy has made Iran a bigger player along with Russia.

The neo-cons gone global have been a disaster.

This from Afghanistan:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report...
http://www.irinnews.org/Report...

This from Fallujah
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/M...

7-18-2008 10:45 AM

righthand

The globalisation gang should be happy. Any others?

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<P></P><BLOCKQUOTE>Leaning on the handlebars of his Iranian-made three-wheel motorbike, Safar Abdul is just one of <B>millions of Iraqis enjoying the tidal wave of goods flooding into war-ravaged Iraq from former foe Iran.</B> Five years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, <B>Iraq's former enemy has finally succeeded in an invasion - of sorts - of Baghdad</B>, as everything from household appliances to medicines sweep into Iraq's shops and markets.
<P><B>Trucks filled with Iranian-made goods thunder across the city</B> much to the consternation of the United States, which is fearful of Iranian influence in Shiite dominated Iraq.</P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1627"><B>Before the fall of the Baathist regime by the US-led forces in April 2003, Iraq had no well-established trade links with Iran</B> except some with the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9ABCBEF1-2F49-434A-852D-7802711F8B9A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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