joshedwards.com » smuggling http://joshedwards.com Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:15:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Dubai, the Smugglers’ Sieve http://joshedwards.com/2010/02/23/dubai-the-smugglers-sieve/ http://joshedwards.com/2010/02/23/dubai-the-smugglers-sieve/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:42:10 +0000 Josh http://joshedwards.com/?p=121 Article about Dubai and it’s porous border with cross-gulf neighbor Iran: “Dubai Helps Iran Evade Sanctions as Smugglers Ignore U.S. Laws.”

Money quote from a member of Dubai’s Iranian Business Council (IBC):

“You can get anything you want, and you can ship anything you want to Iran,” says Morteza Masoumzadeh, an IBC director and owner of a shipping company that transports goods between Iran and Dubai. “Every company in Iran is either here or has representatives here.”

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