From: Aftenposten
Date: 14.4.2009
S E C R E T BERLIN 000437 SIPDIS STATE FOR EUR/CE PETER SCHROEDER STATE FOR ISN/CPI MARK FELIPE STATE FOR EUR, NEA, AND T E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/14/2034 TAGS: MNUC, PARM, PREL, IR, GM SUBJECT: (S) DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IRAN ATTEMPTING TO PROCURE DUAL-USE VALVES FROM GERMAN FIRM REF: STATE 34336 Classified By: Global Affairs Unit Chief Don L. Brown for reasons 1.4 (b), (c), and (d). (S) On April 14, Global Affairs officer delivered ref nonpaper to German MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer Wiebke Wacker regarding an Iranian effort to procure 1800 stainless steel valves from the German firm Mit-Weimar GmbH in support of Irans nuclear program. Wacker said that she would deliver the ref information to the appropriate export controls authorities at the German Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA). Post will report any substantive German response septel. Koenig