Israel loses 1 billion $ - Owes IRAN plus damages

[Bob]

Court backs Iran vs. Israel in pipeline case

(Source - OGJ Online)

The Swiss Federal Tribunal has rejected an arbitration appeal and left intact an order that Israel pay Iran about $1.1 billion plus interest in a longstanding dispute over a crude-oil pipeline the countries built cooperatively before the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

The 158-mile, 42-in. pipeline connects the Israeli ports of Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba with Ashkelon on the Mediterranean.


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An Israeli-Iranian joint venture built it to bypass the Suez Canal, which was blockaded during the 1967 Middle East War (OGJ Online, Nov. 6, 2003). Iran’s revolution ended relations with Israel.

Eliat-Ashkelon Pipeline Co. operates the now-bidirectional pipeline, as well as a 16-in. products pipeline between Eliat and Ashkelon and crude lines between Ashkelon and refineries at Haifa and Ashdod.


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The Swiss order covers Iranian claims to its share of revenue from pipeline operations (not paid by Israel) during the decade before the revolution.

It also awarded Iran $461,000 in court costs and lawyer fees.

So I wonder, will Israel continue to threaten to bomb Iran, or pay them what they are owed?

[Bob]

The schemes behind the scheming -

from: OSNetDaily.com (The Open Source Intelligence and news daily) - http://osnetdaily.com/about/

Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company (EAPC) (see above post) who operates the "pipeline" - made the headlines in December 2014 after a disastrous oil spill at a southern nature reserve. The trail of companies behind it is even more labyrinthine than its pipelines..

They are members of one of Israel’s most secret clubs – veterans of the security establishment, local businessmen and close associates of leading politicians.

All members are forced to keep strict secrecy - all personal appointments of various finance ministers, controlling the firm are under cover of a confidentiality order that keeps information about its activities under wraps.

The Israeli state maintains this company whose activity is shrouded in mystery and it is exempt from the reporting and oversight required of other public bodies.

EAPC owns and operates two oil ports and terminals, in Eilat and Ashkelon, and a network of pipelines and containers for transporting and storing crude oil, cooking gas and jet fuel.

All the oil imported to Israel that is processed by the oil refineries in Haifa and Ashdod passes through this EAPC system, en route to the gas tanks and stove tops in Israel and the occupied territories.

There is also a sister company, called Trans-Asiatic Oil, Ltd., which operates in parallel from the same offices in the Amot Hamishpat building in Tel Aviv, and is apparently responsible for foreign oil transactions and renting tankers which bring fuel into the terminals and the pipeline.

When was it formed?

EAPC was founded in 1968 as a partnership between the Israeli government and the Iranian national oil company.

It was established through foreign front companies that, to this day, hold its shares.

Its primary aim was to build and operate a land bridge for transporting Iranian oil from Eilat to the Mediterranean Sea, for export to European customers.

After the Iranian revolution, over the years, EAPC completed its reverse-flow project, which enables the pumping of oil from its Ashkelon oil port south to Eilat, and not just northward from Eilat to Ashkelon.

As a result, crude oil produced in Russia and the Central Asian republics, loaded at Black Sea ports, can be marketed at competitive prices in southern Asia and the Far East, by transporting the oil through Israel to Eilat and shipping it from there.

more... (http://osnetdaily.com/2015/01/secret-hands-guiding-israels-iranian-oil-pipeline/)

It seems that Israel is hardly "short" of energy with a situation like the above in operation.. and revenues to 'pay the bill' which they have continually refused to do.


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[Bob]

And who FUNDED Israeli special projects? You won't believe it, I certainly didn't, IRAN played a large part.. Here is the history behind what hasn't been recently talked about out in the open..

EAPC (Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company), is part of an entity called trans Asiatic oil, a partnership formed between the Government of Israel (through Ministry of Finance) and the national oil company of Iran, NIOC, ever since Iran de facto recognized Israel in 1951, bilateral relations have developed steadily, until they came to a strategic partnership in the 1970s.

It had four main components: Iranian assistance for the immigration operations of Jews from Iraq organized by the Mossad.

Iranian-Israeli intelligence Cooperation (Mossad, Shin Bet and the army) helped to establish, train and operate the Iranian army and the Sawak unit – Iranian security service. In return Israel’s intelligence organizations were aided by Iran for the purpose of gathering information and deploying agents in Iraq to assist the Kurdish revolt, and to deliever oil supplies to Israel.

Military cooperation focused on since ’75, on Iranian investment of $ 1.2 billion in several projects of research and development of Israeli arms.

These initiatives, whose code name was “contact”, included, among other things, the establishment of Soltam munitions plant in Iran, Lavi jet development, development of sea-sea missile based on Gabriel technology, and according to the foreign service – development of an upgraded surface-to-surface”Jericho” missile, with a range to about 600 km. The rise of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to power in ’79 ended the cooperation, but by then Iran transferred several hundred million dollars for the project, as claimed in advertising.

Rothschild's get involved

The “Fuel Bridge across the East”, is based on documents declassified in Israel and the UK and interviews with people involved in the matter, and is published in the journal “ISRAEL STUDIES”. By the mid-50s, Israel received its oil supplies from the Soviet Union, Kuwait (under British rule) and international oil companies.

But in 1955-1956 these ties were severed, and Israel was forced to look for new sources.

Through secret ties with Iran, Israel asked the ruler, the Shah, and sought to make Iran its main oil supplier.

In the Israel-dominated Sinai peninsula after the Sinai Campaign, Israel “confiscated” pumps and pipes from Italian and a Belgian company operating an oil field in Ras Sudar Sinai.

With that equipment it built the Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline. Most of the money was of the Rothschild family, with a majority of shares in the venture.

The project is called “Tri-Continental”, and as required by the Iranians, who wanted to conceal their involvement in the sale of oil and in the joint company, was established at the same time a secret partnership called “Fimerko”, recorded in 1959 Liechtenstein tax shelter.

more... (http://osnetdaily.com/2014/12/rothschilds-secretive-iranian-oil-operation-just-blew-israeli-desert/)

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Shah of Iran Discusses Israel Lobby ... 36 Years Ago

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