TRUMP business with Iranian banks associated with nuclear and terrorist programs?

The organization of real estate Donald Trump operated with the Iranian bank that the US authorities have linked to terrorist groups and Iran's nuclear program.

Bank Melli, one of the major Iranian banks under state control is already tenant in 1998, when Trump bought the General Motors Building in Manhattan, but kept them for another five years, until 2003, as reported by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) .US officials later blamed the bank for help in obtaining sensitive materials for Iran's nuclear program, but US authorities believe that through the Bank Melli between 2002 and 2006 at least $ 100 million transferred to the Quds Force department of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which was sponsor terrorist attacks.

Further the report states that Bank Melli probably paid more than $ 500,000 annual rent for the space of about 750m2 in the GM building, but it is not clear whether the Trump organization violated the law by doing business with the Iranian bankom.Izvještaj of last week showed that the company was under the Trumps controlled secretly operate with Cuba in the duration of sanctions by the United States.

The United States at that time had an embargo which the Americans prohibit doing business with Iran, which included receiving the rent, or some of the organizations are granted licenses which certain transactions were exempt from sanctions.If rents were licensed, ICIJ occurs, it is possible that the Trumpovoj organization was difficult to legally evict the bank, which moved once since 2003.

Trump principles

No matter what, this business arrangement in question leads Trump principe.Predsjednički candidate of the Republican Party has described Iran as a "great enemy" during the campaign and accused his contender Hillary Clinton to be lenient towards the Iranian regime after receiving donations from foreign governments through its Foundation, Clinton."It is quite hypocritical attitude," said Richard Nephew, a former US State Department official who worked on sanctions Iran for almost ten years, for George W. Bush and Barack Obama. "It seems that its principles are quite flexible when it comes to how to get paid."

Documents obtained by ICIJ show that the office of the Bank Melli in the GM building, which is Trump sold in 2003, "to be owned or controlled" by the Iranian government, and would be subject to economic sanctions against Irana.Banci Melli is allowed to carry out banking transactions in the United States, but it is possible that has maintained an office in Trumpovoj building in the hope that one day the sanctions lifted.

Open criticizes Iran and doing business with themTrump openly criticized Iran since the 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan introduced new sanctions after the Islamic regime associated with the terrorist attacks in Argentina and Saudi Arabia. Builder and future star of reality TV in 1987 in a speech suggested that the US should attack Iran and take some of its oil fields and continued to strike the regime.

"It would be tough on Iran," Trump told the Guardian in 1988. "They win us psychologically, we look like a bunch of fools. It would be good for the world when they were attacked by ".Deset years later, Trump - who likes to brag to personally conduct his business - will monetize checks of rent from the bank which is controlled by Iran, although longtime employee denied that they knew that the bank was tenant ."We had a lot of tenants in the GM building," said George Ross, a longtime vice president of the Trump Organization. "They may have been there, but I do not know about."

A spokesman for the Trump organization declined to comment except if the story is positive, reports ICIJ, or former employee of the State Department says there is no excuse for the rent bank controlled by Iran."Has anyone in America should be smarter than that do business with Iran? Yes, "said Nephew.

• 5 Oct, 2016
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