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New York: Muslim pleads guilty to selling nuclear technology to Iran

Jun 15, 2016 11:11 am By Robert Spencer

The irony here is that Obama has just given the Iranians so much money that they can pursue many deals of this kind. Then the U.S. government prosecutes people like Erdal Kuyumcu. If the U.S. government doesn’t want Iran to obtain material it can use to build nuclear weapons, why did it give the Iranians so much money? It won’t, after all, be able to monitor and stop all of Iran’s transactions the way it did this one.

Erdal Kuyumcu

“Turkish actor in US admits selling nuclear technology material to Iran,” by Nafiz Albayrak, Doğan News Agency, June 15, 2016:

A former Turkish actor, detained in New York for illegally selling to Iran a restricted metallic powder used in missile production, pleaded guilty on June 15.

Erdal Kuyumcu, 44, the chief executive of Global Metallurgy LLC, pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn federal court on June 15 to deliberately violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which limits trade with Iran.

The indictment said Kuyumcu collected more than 450 kilograms of cobalt-nickel metallic powder, which is used in aerospace, missile production and nuclear applications, to export them to Iran.

It added that Kuyumcu, along with another partner, then hid the metal powder in Turkey before sending it to Iran.

The indictment demanded 20 years in prison for Kuyumcu, in addition to a $1 million fine, but Kuyumcu is expected to be sentenced to up to five years in jail after reaching a deal with the prosecutor’s office and disclosing the partners and institutions involved in the plan.

The final verdict on Kuyumcu will be given in October.

According to a statement by the U.S. Justice Ministry, Kuyumcu sold nickel metal powder, which he bought from a U.S. company in Ohio, to Iran via a firm in Turkey without receiving a license from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

Kuyumcu’s lawyer Patrick Mullin denied that the powder would have been used in missile production, claiming that it was also often used for industrial purposes.

Kuyumcu had appeared in many TV series and movies in Turkey….

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  1. Don McKellar says

    Jun 15, 2016 at 11:23 am

    Left-fascists enabled Stalin to get a nuclear bomb with their treason, so it is no surprise that decades later a moslem is enabling the Iranian regime to get nuclear technology via the US. That way the Middle East can have it’s own Cold War — except that the nukes will be in the hands of mad dog moslems who worship death and things might not work out too well. Wow, that Turkey sure is the hub of a lot of rotten things these days, whether it’s the Islamic State’s black market oil or as a transfer station for Iran’s nuclear bomb program.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Jun 15, 2016 at 1:12 pm

      … mad dog moslems who worship death…

      Jannat + nuclear fission = mass murder on a scale never before seen. Give it 10 to 20 years to come to fruition. Maybe less.

    • Face_The_Truth says

      Jun 15, 2016 at 2:42 pm

      Don McKellar says:
      Left-fascists enabled Stalin to get a nuclear bomb with their treason,…

      Incorrect sentence.

      Soviet Union did not build its nuclear arsenals from stolen American diagram(s).

      • Don McKellar says

        Jun 15, 2016 at 4:58 pm

        Incorrect brain.

        Nowhere in my post does it say anything about “American diagram(s)”.

        Now shut your hole. Once again you have proven yourself to be some kind of a retard with a massive deficit in reading and comprehension skills.

    • Mazo says

      Jun 15, 2016 at 5:27 pm

      The atomic bomb ws built by non-Christian, non-American scientists like Mohammed Raziuddin Siddiqui, Chien-Shiung Wu. The scientists who participated in the Manhattan Project are non-Christian and non-American. Qian Xuesen helped built America’s missile program.

      Not low IQ Americans.

      White American: “HURR DURR they stole our technology! I don’t even know basic physics and algebra!”

  2. jihad3tracker says

    Jun 15, 2016 at 11:25 am

    EMAIL YOUR NATIONAL AND STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS IMMEDIATELY. Probably their LOCAL district offices are better than the Washington DC location.

    AND REMIND THEM OF HOW FACTS HAVE COME OUT THAT BEN RHODES — OBAMA’S TOP SPINNER ON THE IRAN DEAL —- deliberately lied about it to Congress, so the breaks we gave Iran would be overlooked.

  3. mortimer says

    Jun 15, 2016 at 11:27 am

    How many Muslims with the US are fighting America?

    Can America afford to take the chance on them? It’s Muslim roulette.

    Which Muslim is not a supremacist? If a Muslim is not a supremacist, is he still a Muslim?

    • common sense says

      Jun 15, 2016 at 1:27 pm

      If a Muslim is not a supremacist, is he still a Muslim?

      The slippery slope of being a so called “devout” follower of Mohammad. Even if they drop their evil prophet I’m not sure I’m good them yet.

  4. Angemon says

    Jun 15, 2016 at 1:04 pm

    The indictment demanded 20 years in prison for Kuyumcu, in addition to a $1 million fine, but Kuyumcu is expected to be sentenced to up to five years in jail after reaching a deal with the prosecutor’s office and disclosing the partners and institutions involved in the plan.

    Assuming he lives that long.

    Kuyumcu’s lawyer Patrick Mullin denied that the powder would have been used in missile production, claiming that it was also often used for industrial purposes.

    Well, so what? It doesn’t change that a) it can be used for missile production and b) the bastard sent it to Iran.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 15, 2016 at 1:35 pm

    Of course, if the mullahs of Iran get their Islamic hands on nuclear weapons the outcome will only be disaster.. Furthermore, as the the history of this tyrannical Islamic regime it needs to be known that what is called the “Iranian Revolution” turned out to be a hoax. Ayatollah Khomeini before achieving power in Iran in his lying and deceptions presented himself to the Iranian people as if he was someone who would be in power would give freedom to the people of Iran with any tyranny. The reality turned out to be just the opposite. As explained by a former Muslim as well as a man who took part in this Islamic “revolution “ ,who is now a Christian informs the reader of his book that “Prior to the Revolution no one ever imagined that other political parties would be suppressed under the rule of Ayatollah Khomeini. He had promised that all groups would have freedom to run their own campaigns after the Revolution. He even stated that governing system would be based on the decision of the people via a referendum. He never spoke of a system that would be governed by Islam. He even made clear that mullahs would not take part in any political activities, and that they would only be allowed to teach spirituality… Immediately after the Revolution, mullahs rushed into government offices to occupy the most important political l positions, making it difficult for the interim secular government to function … The mullah’s occupation of position was exactly the opposite to what the Ayatollah Khomeini had promised before the Revolution.”. [1] In other words, the insincere, disingenuous and outright lying Ayatollah Khomeini made many bogus promise he really had no intention of keeping. His lying deception worked, for he achieved great power in Iran. Furthermore, of the many heinously evils outcome s of that Islamic “revolution” is the extremely cruel, brutal and demonic misogyny of this hideous Islamic regime. Not only against women but even young girls. As explained by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and hoe now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in evet sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine…The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [2] This is as malice -filled and viscously wicked as can possibly be. This, very much, reflects the Wisdom found in the Bible which in Proverbs 15:15. For it reads “All the days of the oppressed are wretched. “ and likewise Proverbs 29:2. Which teaches “When the wicked rule, the people groan. “ [N.I.V.]

    [1] ISLAM :THE HOUSE I LEFT BEHIND by Daniel Shayesteh . Pages 90, 91
    [2] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.

    • SBJ says

      Jun 18, 2016 at 2:54 am

      I can’t read that sh!t without paragraphs.

  6. Idania says

    Jun 15, 2016 at 1:50 pm

    Islam is a political movement to control the World. Is time to stop them. Our sovereignty is in jeopardy. Obama already said that he will side with the Muslims is it is necessary. (Paraphrasing)
    What else is it necessary to know? We have many examples of their controlling behavior around the World and in our country. We need to protect America and we need a leader.!!!!

    • SBJ says

      Jun 18, 2016 at 3:34 am

      Fk America, It’s that country alone that’s destabilizing western civilization. We need to have a far broader conversation than muslim infiltration into into JUST the US which happens to be at a measly . 6%.

      • SBJ says

        Jun 18, 2016 at 3:37 am

        That would be less than 1% [one] percent. …..0.6%

  7. miriamrove says

    Jun 15, 2016 at 1:52 pm

    Kuyumcu’s lawyer Patrick Mullin denied that the powder would have been used in missile production, claiming that it was also often used for industrial purposes.

    How does he know this? Is a Chemist also? Are they going to deport his ass back to Erdogan? m

  8. Das Karl says

    Jun 15, 2016 at 11:03 pm

    The Clintons work with the ‘moderate,’ execution-happy muslims running Saudi Arabia while Obama’s job is to recruit the ‘moderate’ Iranians running Iran
    Perhaps the Clinton imperative was to overpower and replace the Bush allies within Saudi Arabia.
    Whatever the reason, you have to be fanatically ignorant not to see that along with Sufi Turkey, the DNC has establoished its own foreign policy executive that is in COMPLETE synchronicity with the goals of Shariah Law.
    Not if, when…When they demand you worship Allah to live and work, what will YOU reply?

  9. ninetyninepct says

    Jun 16, 2016 at 12:47 pm

    Don’t be surprised when a few nuclear bombs go off hidden in ships at American harbors.

  10. Jay Boo says

    Jun 18, 2016 at 2:29 am

    test

  11. SBJ says

    Jun 18, 2016 at 2:58 am

    I prefer the US doesn’t have nuclear arms, she’s the largest terrorist organization on this planet.

  12. SBJ says

    Jun 18, 2016 at 3:17 am

    Dear Mr. Spencer,

    You can not talk about the Islamization of America, without bringing up US foreign policy, certainly not without bringing in the middle east. Having said that,including, the Islamization of western Europe, which is one and the same,The EU has rapidly becoming the vassals of US foreign policies…hiccup. You might want to check that out, I did and it’s not a pretty picture.

    signed your new fan,

    SBJ

    Your site somewhat sucks, btw. I get zero notification on comments, I’ve posted…even though I signed up.

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