Dr. Alexander von Paleske - The US Government apparently continues to prepare for war against Iran. A second aircraft carrier is on its way to the Persian Gulf.

The options, how to destroy the alleged Iranian nuclear facilities, are being considered. Israel is pressurizing for a speedy attack.

The question, "what happens afterwards" not even being considered. This may be another serious mistake.

Iran does have weapons of mass destruction for 13 years now, thanks to Israel, Germany and the UK. These countries supplied Iran with or tolerated the supply of these weapons from 1991 to 1993.

Raw materials and "know how" for the production of nerve gases Sarin and Mustard, including blue prints for a production plant were bought in China and shipped to Iran’s Bandar e Abbas.

Sarin is one of the worst weapons of mass destruction. Invented by Adolf Hitler’s chemical industry in 1937, however never used in WW2.

It was, however, used in a horrific terrorist attack in the subway of Tokyo in 1995.

These weapons of mass destruction can easily be filled into medium range rockets, which may be fired to Israel in response to a US- attack on Iran.

Israel then is likely to retaliate by dropping atomic bombs over Iran. The whole region would be on fire.

A looks backwards
Israel had supplied Iran with weapons for decades, most prominently during the Iran-Contra scandal in 1986, in which the Pentagon with its colonel Oliver North and in cohort with the international arms dealer and crook Adnan Khashoggi, was selling weapons to Iran via Israel and the profits were used to sponsor a right wing terror group in Latin America, the Contras, fighting against the government of Nicaragua.

Even before and more so after this scandal, the weapons supply from Israel to Iran was in full swing to in order to fuel the war between Iran and Iraq..

The Iran-Iraq war came to an end in 1987.

Iraq was defeated in the first Gulf war in 1991.

Now Israel started to supply one of its arch enemies, Iran, with weapons of mass destruction, i.e. raw materials and "know how“ for the production of the nerve gases Sarin and Mustard.

The Buyers
Involved on the Iranian side was a Dr. Majid Abbaspour Tehrani Fard, Head of Department 105 (defence industry) and a close friend of former Iranian President Rafsanjani.

Equally involved a Hossein Maher.

The front company for the deals was the Iranian company Bandaran. Head office in 282, Shagid Dastgerdy Ave,Tehran.

Bandaran was selling surplus oil, that exceeded Iran's OPEC quota, on the black market at a discount.

The representative for Bandaran in Vienna was an Iranian man by the name of Mehdi Farschi, alias Farshchiha, alias Hashemi Bari, alias Masoud.

The proceeds were being used to buy weapons including weapons of mass destruction

Farschi was assisted by an Austrian engineer, Manfred Felber, married to an Iranian woman and living part time in Tehran.

In 1994 Felber was sentenced to four years in prison by a US court for money laundering and illegally trying to buy gas masks and gas detectors for Iran in the US.

The Sellers
Two groups were buying the raw material in China and selling it to Iran. They were working independently from each other. One group comprised the Israeli arms dealer Nahum Manbar, a big supporter of Israel’s labour party. At functions he was regularly seated at the top table next to Israel’s former prime minister Rabin.

Manbar sold, amongst other things, tanks from former eastern bloc countries to Iran. The tanks were before modernized by the Israeli company El Op..

In 1991 he started to supply Iran with weapons of mass destruction in conjunction with the Israeli secret service Shin Bet and in cohort with the British Mi6. The British Mi6 was represented by the agents Joy Kiddie and Richard Tomlinson.

The second group comprised the former Israeli air force colonel Moshe Regev alias Regenstreich and the German Gerhard Eugen Merz. Their company Mainway was operating from the town of Bad Homburg, 15 kilometers north of Frankfurt (M)/Germany.


Moshe Regev as pilot on a military airport

Apparently the German Secret service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) was aware of these dealings, possibly involved as well. At the same time the UN weapons inspectors were searching for the same type of weapons in neighboring Iraq.

The Government of Israel ordered a stop to the dealings when weapons, once sold to Iran, were handed over to the Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon by the Iranians.

Regev/Merz stopped immediately, Manbar continued for another year to honor the contract with Iran. He was apparently afraid, of what might happen, if not doing so.


Moshe Regev on the Bahamas


Moshe Regev in China

Only Manbar - not Regev- was arrested in 1997 during a visit to Israel and in 1998 sentenced to 16 years in prison. The trial was marred by scandals.

The presiding judge, Ammon Shtrasnov, started apparently a love affair with one of Manbar’s defense lawyers, Pninat Yanai. Despite this, Shtrasnov did not recuse himself from the further proceedings.

The question remains, why Israel supported the sale of weapons of mass destruction to Iran. The most likely answer: to create a case for war against Iran.


Dr. Alexander von Paleske is Head of the Department of Oncology at the Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone/Botswana and Ex-Barrister-at-Law, High Court Frankfurt (M), Germany

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