January 30, 2007, 8:34 pm
Some prominent lawmakers want the Bush administration to get tough with European and Asian companies moving ahead with big investment deals in Iran’s lucrative oil and gas industry, the backbone of the country’s economy. Royal Dutch Shell and Spain’s Repsol are the latest companies to announce possible multi-billion dollar exploration deals in Iran — in their case a potential $4.3 billion liquefied-natural-gas project in the south of the country.
The State Department says it is looking into the proposed Shell-Repsol deal, which could run afoul of the Iran Freedom Support Act, a law that calls for sanctions against any companies investing over $20 million in Iran’s oil and gas industry. A similar law has been in place since the late 1990s, but neither the Clinton nor Bush administrations have sanctioned companies operating in Iran.
The ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, says that must change. She said in a statement late Tuesday that the proposed Shell-Repsol deal “would likely violate provisions of the Iran Freedom Support Act, and the two companies and their North American subsidiaries must be held accountable.”
Large oil and gas companies in China, Malaysia, France, Thailand and Australia have all announced potential explorations deals recently in Iran, a trend that Ms. Ros-Lehtinen says “demonstrates a willingness to place profit above security.”
The congresswoman plans this week, with possible high-level Democratic support, to introduce a bill that would require U.S. pension funds to divest from any companies doing business in Iran.
– Neil King Jr.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
