Iranian Bank Denies U.S. Charge It Is a Weapons Proliferator

al-Reuters via NYT ^ | Jan. 10, 2007 | Staff

[Schnucki]

TEHRAN - Iran's state-owned Bank Sepah on Wednesday denied U.S. charges it was helping the country to acquire nuclear weapons and threatened unspecified legal action, an Iranian news agency said.

The U.S. Treasury Department named Bank Sepah on Tuesday as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction, banning U.S. companies or citizens from doing business with it and blocking any of its assets that come under U.S. jurisdiction.

"While denying all the lies we consider it as right that in the near future we will take up the case through legal channels," the bank said in a statement carried by the semi-official Fars news agency. It did not specify what legal action it would take.

[Calpernia]

Interesting.

Bank Sepah Iran
(212) 974-1777
650 5th Ave
New York, NY 10019

[Magnum44]

Embassies, banks, the full press has begun. This spring is going to be interesting.

[Calpernia]

I'm finding the other businesses at that same address, very interesting....and where their money is going...

[Calpernia]

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[Cap Huff]

It seems incredible that a bank with ties to Iran could have been allowed to operate in New York, unless the gaining of information was more important than the potential threat . . .

[Calpernia]

And more interesting

Bank Sepah Iran
(212) 974-1777
650 5th Ave
New York, NY 10019

Other businesses located at 650 5th Ave, New York, NY:


http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=neighborhood&searchmode=1&city=New%20York&state=NY&address=650%205th%20Ave&cat=&location=8bWd9mi9SIVNgW5%2bmJHwc8OgXPI40NA3B5NffPa0WL96lWhBd92WWZeqVhCxK2haG27RLKqZYqqO84huhnjoghqI53E%2fncN7YUG%2fSXObE6RMfIZs%2b6cTr3yLNEpHQ4kneSvx%2bBDVm1TFJX76bKBjrQ%3d%3d


I'm doing searches on where those businesses monies go....VERY interesting.

[Cap Huff]

DNC???

[winodog]

They must be gaining a lot of info from the Saudi Arabian banks. They have been bankrolling the jihad, and paying for the mosques and schools that teach hatred of non mu-slims since oil was discovered in their barren hellhole of a country.

[Calpernia]

I've found PAC monies from businesses at that location going to DNC politicians. But it doesn't prove the businesses had anything to do with that bank. But my eyebrows are WAY up.

[Cap Huff]

Yes, S.A. is a very similar problem . . .

[Calpernia]

>>>>650 5th Ave

5th Ave. tidbits:

Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres between 48th and 51st Streets in New York. It is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan, spanning between Fifth Avenue and Seventh Avenue. It is the largest privately held complex of its kind in the world, and an international symbol of commerce and capitalism. Rockefeller Center is a combination of two building complexes: the older Art Deco office buildings from the 1930s, and a set of four International-style towers built along the Avenue of the Americas during the 1960s and 1970s. (The Time-Life Building and the News Corporation/Fox News Channel headquarters are part of the "newer" Rockefeller Center buildings.)

The entire Rockefeller Center complex was purchased by Mitsubishi Estate, a real estate company of the Mitsubishi Group, in 1989.

http://www.thecityreview.com/midfifth.html

Looking up Fifth over Grand Army Plaza from Bergdorf Goodman's windows on 58th Street

Excerpt:

The period after World War II has not been kind to Fifth Avenue although it took a decade or so before serious destruction began. Just contrast the wonderfully ornate hanging lanterns at the Sherry Netherland Hotel, at right, with the plain vanilla wrapper of its apartment building neighbor adjacent to it, shown at the right.

Modern architecture actually made a fine, though belated postwar start on the avenue with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's modest little jewel for the Manufacturers Trust Company at 510 Fifth Avenue at 43rd Street, but otherwise the record is rather sad.

By the end of the 1960's, many fine, old retailers were leaving the avenue as banks, airlines, travel agencies and tourist traps were willing to pay substantially higher rents and the sophisticated charm of the avenue gave way to a more corporate and sleazier character.

View up Fifth Avenue from 86th floor observatory of Empire State Observatory in September, 2000

/excerpt

And I guess it shouldn't be surprising that a Rockefeller Fund is coming up in association with a Fund set up by that back at 650 Fifth Ave!

[Calpernia]

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