UK Deceit: British anti-arms campaign lists Iran in receiving £792 million pounds worth of arms but on closer look are actually civilian industrial parts

Deceit: UK issued £792m arms permits to Iran
The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT)  listed industrial parts as weapons components.

Press TV
Apr 22, 2012

A British anti-arms trade campaign group has launched a deception campaign claiming Iran imported £792 million worth of weapons or related parts from Britain in the past four years.

The Campaign Against Arms Trade included Iran in the list of countries, which have secured arms trade licenses from Britain since 2008.

However, the CAAT listed items such as chemicals, industrial gas turbines (used in power plants) and components of civil aircraft as the so-called arms Iran has sought to buy from Britain.

This is while other countries on the list, including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, have secured licenses for a host of military items including military aircraft and missile components as well as rifles and firearm silencers.

Western countries including Britain, regularly deny Iran access to material with industrial and medical use to Iran under the pretext that they could be used for military purposes.

This is while, the same list by the CAAT shows Britain has been selling real-life weapons to repressive regimes including Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Yemen over the past few years.

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