Chapter 458: Arms Business!

Lin Yu knew that on November 2 this year, someone would cover up McFarlane's secret visit to Iraq and the delivery of weapons, and on November 4, Iranian parliament speaker Rafsanjani publicly confirmed that the secret arms trade between the United States and Iran was a failure. After the incident, there was an uproar in the United States, and Reagan's popularity dropped sharply. On Nov. 6, at a second press conference, Reagan acknowledged a series of misconduct on the issue. As of the outbreak of the Iran-Contra incident, the United States had made six arms sales to Iran, resulting in the release of hostages.

Although the news had been spread before, this incident still caused a crisis of confidence in the US government, as well as the dissatisfaction of Iraq, at this time, Iraq turned to France for help, indicating that Iraq may have found out something, so when Mitterrand secretly met with the Iraqi ambassador, they hinted to the French government that they hoped to obtain arms supplies from France.

How could Lin Yu refuse to do this matter, if he didn't do the money-making business, then he wouldn't be Lin Yu, give him a fulcrum, he would dare to talk about the Soviet Union, let alone the Iran-Iraq war.

Lin Yu said with a smile, "We not only want to support Iraq, weapons can be sold in large quantities, as long as it is not related to the core interests of France, then we can sell it to him, if there is no money, then use the oil field as a mortgage, and do things can be hidden, but there is no need to be afraid of being known, Iraq can be said to have won the support of the Western world and the Arab world in this battle, so our support is just a righteous act." ”

Lin Yu said slowly, not worried about whether Iraq's oil fields can be obtained, because he only needs the certificate, if Iraq does not want him to exploit oil in the future, then he will not be too polite to it in the Gulf War, and even end Saddam Hussein in advance, and then the oil fields will also be in his hands, because he has the right to exploit.

After finalizing the plan, Jason decided that the British government would go to his side... And pledged not to harm the interests of the British government.

Just after that, something jaw-dropping happened.

On September 3, 1986, French President François Mitterrand visited Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, and the leaders of the two countries had in-depth conversations, reached consensus on some issues, and signed some secret treaties... As for the content of the treaty, outsiders have no way of knowing.

However, immediately afterwards, a certain senior officer of the Iraqi army went to France for a return visit and had an in-depth conversation with French President Francois Mitterrand.

In the next few days, he successively visited French Aerospace Corporation, Dassault Systèmes, French Ground Weapons Industries Group and other arms companies, and signed a procurement contract with French Aerospace for Dafrancs, and purchased 200 Mirage series aircraft from Dassault of France that will be discontinued, with a unit price of 10,000 US dollars, and this purchase alone will cost 22 US dollars... A number of other equipment was also procured, amounting to $500 million.

Even bigger is the purchase of hundreds of armored vehicles, tanks, missiles and anti-personnel weapons from the French ground weapons industry group, with a cumulative contract of 3.6 billion francs.

This purchase can be said to have made France more profitable... The revenue of nearly 100 million dollars can definitely leave a glorious mark on the arms market in 1985.

Before he could react, the British government over there was anxious, because France had made too much money, so it couldn't do it, so it also accelerated its actions, and the direct impact of the British government's next action made the United States even more uneasy... Because it feels as if Europe is not as obedient as it used to be.

France's nearly $10 billion arms order is really a lot of countries that are red-eyed... For example, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

As a result of the agreement with Lin Yu... After hearing about France's arms order, Margaret Thatcher immediately contacted the Iranian contact person in the United Kingdom, why not the ambassador?

Because as early as 'Irangate, before the United States informed the European and American countries of the joint arms embargo on Iran because of the arrest of its own spy in Iran, and in order to show Iran's tough stance, the Iranian ambassador was also withdrawn at that time.

However, Iran is not stupid, it also wants to ease relations with the United States, and does not want Europe and the United States to directly intervene in the Iran-Iraq war, so it later released those United States, and secretly hinted to the United States that it was willing to buy weapons.

And what about the United States? At the beginning, after the secret peace with Iran, it was in the consideration of monopolizing the Iranian arms market and did not inform the United Kingdom, so the relationship between Iran and Britain has not eased, but considering the future relations between the two countries, in order to continue to cut off all back roads, the British government has allowed Iran to leave a liaison person long before.

It is precisely with this secret move that the British government can have room for peace talks with Iran.

And what about now? The Iranian liaison also received a message from Iran, asking him to immediately find a suitable country for arms support, because they were really frightened by the batch of arms ordered by Iraq, and what made them even more frightened was that the batch of arms was still in stock and could be shipped to Iraq as soon as possible.

Iran shuddered at the thought of Iraq's immediate availability of these arms and their deployment on the battlefield.

Originally, it was best to seek the support of the United States, but Reagan is now stuck in the 'Iran Gate,' who has time to take care of them, and the United States supported Iraq before, so from an external point of view, Iraq is just.

Therefore, for the United States, which wants to be a bitch and wants to establish a memorial arch, they will definitely not sell arms to them on a large scale, and even if they want to sell them, they will only sell them in small quantities, such as fighter planes and the like, and they will never be able to sell them.

Therefore, it is important for them to seek the support of other Western powers, and at this time, the Western powers have been bound by the arms embargo before and will not agree, so the Iranian liaison is now anxious like ants on a hot pot.

At this time, before the liaison could do anything, Mrs. Thatcher's contact came to the door, and as soon as he heard that Mrs. Thatcher wanted to summon him, the contact's eyes lit up, and he followed the person to Downing Street without stopping.

And Lin Yu was also contacting the purchase of arms at this time, after all, Iraq and Iran are not small customers, so they are definitely the main ones who eat as much as they want, and Lin Yu will naturally find a few big buyers.

Since it is a big business, Lin Yu will never forget the Soviet Union for such a thing, so now Lin Yu has begun to contact his people in the Soviet Union. To be continued...