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http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/201...with-iran.html
From news article:
A rude surprise that awaited members of Israel's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee at the Bundestag in Berlin; the presence of member's of the Iranian Majilis. Writing in the Jerusalem Post, Benny Weinthal reports that the encounter has strained Israeli-German relations. So is Germany so infatuated with Iran? Benny explains. Polenz’s defense on Friday of the Majlis members’ visit should also be accompanied by a healthy dose of skepticism.

Last October, Bundestag deputy Peter Gauweiler, from the CDU’s Bavarian sister party CSU and chairman of the legislature’s Subcommittee on Foreign Cultural and Educational Policies, led a group of German lawmakers who met with Ali Larijani, the head of Iran’s parliament, in Iran. That’s the same Larijani who at the 2009 Munich security conference caused an uproar when he said his country has “different perspectives on the Holocaust.”

The group of German legislators, including deputies from the Greens, Social Democrats, CDU and the Left Party, also met during the October 2010 trip to the Islamic Republic with Ali Larijani’s brother Mohammad Javad Larijani, who heads the human rights council in the Iranian judiciary.

Mohammad Larijani in 2008 – during a German Foreign Ministry-sponsored event close to Berlin’s Holocaust memorial – denied the Holocaust and called for Israel’s destruction. The Bundestag members last year chose not to publicly criticize the Holocaust denial and the genocidal statements of the Larijani brothers. A month after the Gauweiler delegation visited Iran, Elke Hoff, a lawmaker from Foreign Minister Westerwelle’s Free Democratic Party, met “senior Iranian officials” during a trip to the Islamic Republic.

Hoff subsequently refused to answer press queries at the time about her trip to Iran. She is a member of the Bundestag’s Defense Committee and its Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non- Proliferation. She is also member of the German-Iranian parliamentary group and serves on the board of the German Near and Middle East Association, a pro-Iranian business trade organization. The association’s honorary chairman is former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who met President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran to promote German- Iranian trade in 2009.

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Iran has the MOST liquid petroleum gas (LPG) reserves in the world, bigger than saudi arabia, iraq, bahrain, russia, the germans need to kiss irans ass, as one day russia might cut supplies to germany, and germany might need iranian energy.

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The key though is that 15 years ago, Iran commissioned a study by ELF Acquitaine on investment into their energy infrastructure. Iran had neglected almost all of its own infrastructure since the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and then for another 10 years in the Iran-Iraq war. The results of that study indicated that Iran had to invest in a crash program for the next 20 years just to catch up with where it should be been had it done no new development or modernization. Since that time Iran still hasn't put much into that investments stream. The reasons are obvious - economic mismanagement and pouring billions into nuclear weapons. So while in theory Iran might be sitting on rich energy resources they have little capacity to get it out of the ground and make any money doing it.