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Right-wing blogs wade into Fiorina's HP past

by on21 September 2015


Deals which come back to haunt you

Now that the former HP queen Carly Fiorina's presidential campaign seems to be doing well, some of the right wing blogs are digging up some old stories on her HP past.

When she was a maker of expensive printer ink, she appeared to have favoured a dodgy deal to flog gear to Iran – which broke the embargo.

Fiorina has been recently in favour of the Iranian peace deal which her fellow GOP members are convinced is going to be broken by those evil Muslims who should never be trusted. Until recently theCarly had said that if she was made president she would have undone the deal if she was elected.

The Right-Wing blogs appear to be implying that Fiorina's change of heart might have been because HP the outfit was involved in a scandal to flog printers in Iran through a subsidiary company in Dubai despite the trade embargo. The sales were halted shortly after the business dealings were made public.  Although the logic is a bit retarded – why would you spend a couple of years saying that the Iran technology embargo should stay?

Fiorina claimed no knowledge that the approximately $100 million of sales through the subsidiary were coming from Iran. The San Jose Mercury News found evidence that Fiorina at least knew a little bit about it.

It dug up a statement from the period where she commented that Middle East sales were defying global trends, and, issued a press release saying sales topped $100 million and that a big chunk of it came from Iran.

In 2010 she partially admitted HP's business in Iran and defended it in an interview with Lady Globes magazine, on the basis that technology could open up Iran to the world. She said that the Iran business was "distributing printer ink," which she said that was permitted in export law.

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