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J.E.DYER: 2009 REPORT SAY CLINTON DONOR MINING PARTNER TRIED TO GET SALE OF URANIUM TO IRAN APPROVED……..

Not only did the Obama administration sign off on selling Putin 20% of US uranium deposits, a Clinton donor mining partner tried to sell the Iranians uranium as well!

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2009 report: Clinton donor’s mining partner tried to sell uranium to Iran

Once the information in Peter Schweizer’s explosive new book Clinton Cash came to light, it was presumably just a matter of time before this came up.

The basic story has been all over the news today.  In the mid-2000s, Bill Clinton helped a Canadian mining investor get face time with the president of Kazakhstan – and lucrative uranium-mining investments with the national atomic-energy company, Kazatomprom.  The Canadian mining investor, Frank Giustra, leveraged that big score to buy out former South African company Uranium One, and acquire interests in uranium ventures in several other countries, including the United States.  Frank Giustra became a major donor to the Clintons.

Money rolled in.  Mr. Giustra hosted a star-studded charity fundraiser with the Clintons in Toronto.

But then, says the New York Times, “what had been a string of successes was about to hit a speed bump.”

By June 2009, a little over a year after the star-studded evening in Toronto, Uranium One’s stock was in free-fall, down 40 percent. Mr. [Mouktar] Dzhakishev, the head of Kazatomprom, had just been arrested on charges that he illegally sold uranium deposits to foreign companies, including at least some of those won by Mr. Giustra’s UrAsia and now owned by Uranium One. …

[P]rivately, Uranium One officials were worried they could lose their joint mining ventures. American diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks also reflect concerns that Mr. Dzhakishev’s arrest was part of a Russian power play for control of Kazakh uranium assets.

At the time, Russia was already eying a stake in Uranium One, Rosatom company documents show.

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