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Empathy is the bridge that opens up to the other side
PETROFILM.COM EUROPE
Information and Interpretation
from a European Perspective
Información e Interpretación
desde una perspectiva Europea
EUROPE-USA
A TRANS-ATLANTIC PARTNERSHIP
UNA COLABORACIÓN TRANSATLÁNTICA
EMPATHY RESPECT DIGNITY
EMPATÍA RESPETO DIGNIDAD
Harald Dahle-Sladek
Founder and Editor-in-chief
Fundador y editor en jefe
To contact the Editor-in-chief with questions, comments and inquiries about lectures or consultations, please e-mail us at haroldsworld@petrofilm.com
Oslo, Norway
歐洲分析與解釋
אמפתיה כבוד כבוד
ניתוח, מידע עם פרספקטיבה אירופית
تجزیه و تحلیل ، اطلاعات از یک چشم انداز اروپایی
АНАЛИЗ ИНФОРМАЦИИ С ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ
ИЗ ЕВРОПЫ
דיאלוג עכשיו ДИАЛОГСЕЙЧАС
DIALOGUENOW
Institute for Empathetic Dialogue formation
and Conflict Resolution, Oslo Norway.
Instituto para la formación del Diálogo Empático y Resolución de Conflictos, Oslo Noruega
عزت احترام به همدلی یکپارچه سازی
The Foreign Ministry Tehran
Creating dialogue and common ground
with the Islamic republic of Iran 1998-2022.
ایجاد گفت و گو و زمینه مشترک با ایران 1998-2022
Updates from
Washington, D.C.
Denmark
Danske Bank Pleads Guilty to Fraud on U.S. Banks in a Multi-Billion Dollar Scheme to Access the U.S. Financial System.
Largest Bank in Denmark Agrees to Forfeit $2 Billion.
Danske Bank A/S (Danske Bank), a global financial institution headquartered in Denmark, pleaded guilty today and agreed to forfeit $2 billion to resolve the United States’ investigation into Danske Bank’s fraud on U.S. banks.
According to court documents, Danske Bank defrauded U.S. banks regarding Danske Bank Estonia’s customers and anti-money laundering controls to facilitate access to the U.S. financial system for Danske Bank Estonia’s high-risk customers, who resided outside of Estonia – including in Russia. The Justice Department will credit nearly $850 million in payments that Danske Bank makes to resolve related parallel investigations by other domestic and foreign authorities. Continues further down.
Switzerland
Glencore International AG
Entered Guilty Pleas to Foreign Bribery and Market Manipulation Schemes. Swiss-Based Firm Agrees to Pay Over $1.1 Billion
Glencore International A.G. (Glencore) and Glencore Ltd., both part of a multi-national commodity trading and mining firm headquartered in Switzerland, each pleaded guilty today and agreed to pay over $1.1 billion to resolve the government’s investigations into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and a commodity price manipulation scheme.
Luxembourg
haroldsw
PETROFILM.COM
By Harald Dahle-Sladek
Editor-in-chief
HE AMBASSADOR ALI AHANI
NORWAY WAS ONE OF THE LAST COUNTRIES IN EUROPE TO ESTABLISH GOOD AND SUSTAINABLE TIES WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
It so happened, that during my dialogue with Dr. Ahani, the tendon curtain between Norway and Iran suddenly went up. I did not ask for it to happen. Dr. Ahani freely and unrestrained opened up the entire relationship between the two countries, which to put it mildly, was a basket full of rotten eggs. Here is a short version of what Dr. Ahani told me in that meeting in the Foreign Ministry in Tehran on April 7, 2002.
Ambassador to Europe and America, the present Ambassador to Paris, the sencond time, His Excellency Ali Ahani and Harald Dahle-Sladek in Dr. Ahani's office in the Foreign Ministry Tehran, April 2002. Dr. Ahani left, with Harald Dahle-Sladek, right in Ahani's office.
Picture below from the video during the interview. From Left, the translator, Ambassador Ali Ahani and Editor-in-Chief Harald Dahle-Sladek. (C)2002 Harald Dahle Oslo.
Too much, Too late, Too dumb!
In 2000 Norway finally entered the Islamic Republic of Iran. Then, the Foreign Ministry in Tehran had waited for thirty years and longer wondering why Norway with its specialized deep-water technologies had not come and helped Iran to build the South Pars project as well as other onshore and offshore projects.
When I arrived the Foreign Department in Tehran in April 2002 the mood was somber, to say the least. Ambassador Ali Ahani was irritated. The Norwegian Foreign Department had for thirty years played on "both sides of the street" cultivating contacts with opposition groups to Iran, like the Mujahidin Kalk MEK. The attitude from the Norwegians had been cordial, but stiff and had not reflected the greatness in the Iranian culture and its people. Tehran was very hurt.
Dahle: -With regards to Norway and Iran relations Ambassador Ahani, I notice some slight irritation on your part, why is that?
Ali-Ahani: -In fact, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Norway have many opportunities. In addition to the economic and industrial cooperation we have oil and gas. I would like to emphasize the importance for us to finalize the oil and gas projects in the South along the Persian Gulf, as well as in the Caspian Sea. Norway and Iran are two important oil producing countries and can cooperate and coordination in the world oil market and stabilize oil prices, which would be in the interest of both oil producers and oil consumers.
Dahle: -You mentioned that the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Pettersen's visit to Tehran was a kind of watershed. Could you please explain that?
Ali-Ahani: In fact, in the past years, our relations lacked the sufficient momentum to further expand our relations. And in fact, compared to other countries in Europe, our relations with Norway were lagging behind. The visit of your Foreign Minister to Tehran show the firm determination of your country for the expansion of the relations with Iran. And certainly, there is such a political will and enthusiasm on the part of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran!
Dahle: -Thank you Dr. Ahani.
Foreign Minister Jan Pettersen (2001-2005): A man with a fist!
Two Foreign Ministries with totally opposing views lead to the biggest industrial scandal for Norway after the War. Norway was thrown out of the Islamic Republic in 2003, after the deafening STATOIL bribary case was revealed for the entire world to watch. But it didn't stop there (Read my analysis of the case: END GAME TEHRAN) Norway was thrown out of China as well and had to crawl back on it's knees and appologize to the Chinese leaders, one-by-one. Losers par excelence!
The Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo
Disrespectfulness towards Iran quickly lead to big schism. Having had contact with oposition groups to Iran, Oslo played on both sides of the street, which angered Tehran immensely.
IRAN
Seal of the Foreign Ministry Tehran
Ambassador Noghrekar Shirazi to Harald Dahle:
"My be you do the job they (the Norwegian Foreign Ministry)
should have done twenty years ago!"
The Iranian Embassy Oslo. From left Harald Dahle-Sladek, Ambassa-dor to Paris Ali Ahani, Ambassador to Oslo Nogrehkar Shirazi. Picture by Deputy Head of Mission Rezvani.
Tehran was very angry!
In 2000 Norway finally entered the Islamic Republic of Iran. Then, the Foreign Department in Tehran had waited for twenty years or more wondering why Norway, with its specialized deep-water technologies, had not come and helped Iran to build the South Pars project, and other offshore and onshore projects.
Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, Oslo
His Excelleny Einar Steensnes Minister of Petroleum and Energy receives a DVD with films that Harald Dahle made in tbhe Islamic republic of Iran between 1998 and 2003
WHY WE DISLIKE
THE UNPROFESSIONAL "WE KNOW BEST" AND SOMETIMES CORRUPT NORWEGIAN ATTITUDE
Leading Norwegian politicians, including Prime Minister Erna Solberg herself, are panicking, showing both dismay and lack of respect for Donald J Trump. Among the country's upper echelon, a factitious disorder of the ugliest kind has been exposed. One, which if it continues to go unchecked, will further erode Norway's possibilities for "special treatment" when it comes to U.S. politics and U.S. Marine Prepositioned war material in Trondelag County, Mid-Norway! The country should contribute more politically and financially to its own defense, and NATO's.
Dear friends. When I was a first grader at Kampen elementary School in Oslo, I was mobbed, beaten and harassed for three full years by other boys in the class. They were children of parents who recently had "won" the war. Or so they had been told! The girls were not far away either! When I came to the music hour to play my 45rpm records from Italy and France, I was booed out! The reason? I had a non-Norwegian family name, and I had views and ideas that differed greatly from what the other Norwegian children had. And that was not acceptable to them!
These early years solidified my standing with the Norwegians, who I believe to be big mouthed, and cold. In Diplomacy with the European Union, Norway used the Swedish Diplomacy to channel its ideas and demands. Today, Norway stands alone, with no help from Sweden. Norway want "everything" for "nothing". And nowhere is this mantra repeated more often than with the country's relations to the US Marine Prepositioning Program for Norway. Nothing else than their own tunnel vision is acceptable to them!
When I came back to Oslo after six years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Norwegian Oil and Gas facilitation Company INTSOK, threatened me that, "Should I ever do something (as dangerous) as write about what I had experienced in the Islamic Republic", they would see to "that I never got a job in Norway again, ever! Period!" Nothing but aggression and threats was acceptable to them! It was
Norwegian stupidity at its finest,
The Foreign Department in Oslo was also very angry, that I had made great success in Tehran and had spoken to high ranking people in the Foreign Department, in the Ministry of Oil, and on Government level. I mean, who do these crab-eating Norwegians think they are? No wonder Statoil, the Norwegian State-owned medium sized oil company, had to write off a loss of no less than USD400Million after shamefully having to retreat from Iran! It was insanity beyond imagination - and acceptable to them!
The Norwegian Governments dislike for the 45th President of the United States Donald J Trump, the Norwegian economic establish-ments dislike for him, and the biased Norwegian Medias dislike for him, show what a "loser" Norway has become. What they wanted was another four years with "Crooked Hillary", the worst criminal ever to seek the office of the Presidency. Donal J Trump was not acceptable to them!
This is why we do not like the Norwegian oppressive, biased and unprofessional attitude! If you do happen to like that, it is not my problem, but yours! And that is very acceptable to us! Have a particularly good day!
Luxembourg
haroldsw