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Weapons to Iran, while selling ammunition to both countries”.

Within this edition, under the title "Portugal gets your hands dirty in the fran-Iraq war", you can read:

« Thanks to a dirty move sponsored by the Government that Pinto Balsemão headed in 1981, Iraqi troops have sophisticated night vision equipment in their war against Iran of "ayatollah" Khomeini. They are glasses and binoculars that allow you to see almost clearly at night. They were sent from the Netherlands to Lisbon over the last two

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years, under the pretext that they were destined for the Portuguese Armed Forces signed by the fist of the National Armuments Director), but went on to Iraq. It's the business, which reached a global value of 65 million dollars (about two and a half million at the current exchange rate). only stopped last December because an ecologist deputy Irishman raised the hare in the Parliament of his homeland”.

Between matter of fact made by instances it refers to the judgment " was un import of uplicUL equipment referring to puges 103, 104, und 105 w 111 by the Bourd Nacional de Armamento through the Portuguese firm Optagrex - importação e Exportação, Lda., such equipment was later re-exported to Iraq. This operation was carried oui, based on documents signed by the Director General of Armament, General Costa Álvares, through the Portuguese firm Optagrex - Importação e Exportação, Lda. material was imported for the exclusive use of the Portuguese Armed Forces and came to be re-exported to Iraq".

It should be noted, as the judgment itself points out, what was at issue was not the veracity of the business itself, but the author's involvement in that business. In this sense, the judgment underlines“ that, in fact, if it is accurate than the RR. They were able to prove that there was a re-export of military nature for Iraq - and this did not merit criticism or even objection from A. - the that what was at stake in this action is in the news, it was not this veracity, but the involvement of the A. in this operation". On this issue - it should also be mentioned - the court considered it “ evident that the RR. They were unable to prove - and that was their burden - that the fact was true and exacı”.

In reply to the questions posed by the Commission, Francisco Pinto Balsemão said he did not remember whether Did Diogo Freitas do Amaral ever refer you to the files he found at the Ministry of Defense, referring that belween the death of Francisco Sá Cameiro, on December 4, 1980, and the on January 9, 1981, the VII Constitutional Government, to which he presided, the post of Prime Minister Minister was exercised by the Deputy Prime Minister of the VI Constitutional Government, Diogo Freitas do Amaral, and that, in the VII Constitutional Government, the linister of National Defense was Luís de Azevedo Coutinho.

3.1.3. Testimony by Diogo Freitas do Amaral

At the time of the l'acts, Diogo Freitas do Amaral was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Business Foreigners, assuming the role of Interim Prime Minister after December 4, 1980 and