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A CONCEPTUAL MARKETING MEDIA COMPANY CMC   E mail: haroldsworld@yahoo.com  Skype: haroldsworld     EUROPE  Oslo, today.  EMPATHY RESPECT DIGNITY ANALYSIS, INFORMATIONS FROM A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE   EMPATHIE RESPECT DIGNITÉ ANALYSE, INFORMATIONS D'UNE PERSPECTIVE EUROPÉENNE   אמפתיה כבוד כבוד ניתוח, מידע עם פרספקטיבה אירופית    طلاعات تجزیه و تحلیل از یک چشم انداز اروپایی عزت احترام به همدلی یکپارچه سازی تجزیه و تحلیل ، اطلاعات از یک چشم انداز اروپایی  EMPATÍA RESPETO DIGNIDAD ANÁLISIS, INFORMACIONES CON PERSPECTIVA DE EUROPA  EMPATHIE RESPECTEER WAARDIGHEID ANALYSE, INFORMATIE VANUIT EEN EUROPEES PERSPECTIEF    СОБСТВЕННОСТЬ УВАЖЕНИЕ ДОСТОИНСТВА  АНАЛИЗ ИНФОРМАЦИИ С ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ ИЗ ЕВРОПЫ   誠信尊重尊嚴 分析，來自歐洲的信息    Welcome  Herzlich willkommen! Bienvenido! добро пожаловать! ברוך הבא  ようこそ!  Bienvenue!  歡迎   أهلا بك    The Grand European Plain stretches from the Pyrenees Mountains and the French coast of the Bay of Biscay in the West to the Russian Ural Mountains in the East.   EUROPE CLICK EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLAY THE EUROPEAN UNION ANTHEM The European Union: 445 Million CLICK EFTA LOGO FOR VIDEO The European Free Trade Association EFTA: 13.6 Million FRANCE 67.3 Million   GERMANY 83.2 Million   CLICK FLAG FOR BREXIT VIDEO The United Kingdom: 66.6  Million    THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION West of Ural 101 Million    PETROFILM.COM EUROPE     EUROPA EUROPE Helmut Kohl CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY'S UNITY AND THE EURO   Click picture Play video Helmut Kohl was the Chancellor who voted for the Euro, created dialogue and common ground with Russa and united Germany together with Mikhail Gorbachev. Kohl was a German statesman who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and as the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1973 to 1998. From 1969 to 1976, Kohl was minister president of the state Rhineland-Palatinate. Kohl chaired the Group of Seven in 1985 and again in 1992.    ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION FROM A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE PETROFILM.COM Institute for Empathic Dialogue Creation and Conflict Resolution     A Petrofilm Europe Exclusive IRAN-US RELATIONS    Seal of the Foreign Ministry   From the Foreign Ministry Tehran Hossein Adeli PhD Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs از وزارت امور خارجه تهران دکتری حسین عادلی معاون وزیر امور خارجه در امور اقتصادی ایران  Seal of the Central Bank  The Central Bank Governor   Ambassador to England, Canada, and Japan Secretary General of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum Founder Ravand Institute for Economic and International Studies   THE COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED INTERVIEW  مصاحبه کامل و خلاصه نشده  Petrofilm Europe arrives for the meeting with Hossein Adeli in the Foreign Ministry Tehran.   Working card for the Editor-in-chief   THE SUCCESS OF THE UNITED STATES IN AFGHANISTAN   ALSO COMES AS THE ACTIVE SUPPORT FROM IRAN Revolutionary icon Khomeini, Leader Khamenei  A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY For Washington to better its relations with Tehran Went out of the Window!    CLICK PICTURE PLAY VIDEO INTERVIEWED APRIL 2002 IN THE FOREIGN MINISTRY  Dr. Adeli: "Great disappointment!"  INTRODUCTION The interview was held in Dr. Hossein Adeli's office in the Foreign Ministry in Tehran. It was the first of two meetings that Harald Dahle-Sladek had with Dr. Adeli. The first took place on May 6, 2002 and the second meeting was held in May 2003, also in the Foreign Ministry. May 2003 was also the month when Norway met Iran on Minister level in the Headquarter of the National Iranian Oil Company NIOC; the last such meeting between the two sides before the Statoil corruption case broke, and made it impossible for the medium-sized Norwegian oil company Statoil to continue its operations in the country.   MOHAMMAD HOSSEIN ADELI PhD At the end of his term in 1999, Adeli was nominated as Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs and the Chairman of the Coordinating Council for Foreign Economic Relations until 2004. During these years, Adeli initiated two special committees for Reconstruction of Afghanistan and Reconstruction of Iraq through a series of multilateral arrangements, and filled the role of Secretary General for both committees.   Obama, Karzai 'reaffirm' Afghan-led peace process with Taliban: White House               USA: President Obama                         Afghanistan: President Karzai    HOW THE DIALOG INTERVIEWS STARTED Harald Dahle worked six years in Iran from January 1998 till May 2003, first in the capacity of documenting and creating dialog in the PC2000 Seismic Survey between Iran, Norway and P.R.China, and later creating dialog in Tehran. He has twenty four years study on Iran and parts of his works are donated to the Nobel Institute Library in Oslo.   Ambassador Noghrehkar Shirazi - Ambassador to Austria, two terms (1992-2000) and to Norway, one term (2000-2004) took the initiative to open up the high-level dialog talks for Harald Dahle in the Islamic republic of Iran to help him complete his Interview project VISION OF IRAN - Creating Dialog and Common Ground with the Islamic Republic. Harald Dahle: -I am of the opinion that sitting down with the people of Iran and creating dialog is a far better thing to do than go to war. Empathy, respect and dignity is what we need, and kindness is the bridge that leads to the heart of the other side. Photo: The Iranian Embassy Oslo. From left Harald Dahle. His Excellency Ambassador to France Ali Ahani and His Excellency Ambassador to Norway Noghrekar Shirazi, who had once been the Governor of Shiraz. Photo by Deputy Head of Mission Mr. Rezvani.   IRANS PEACE INITATIVE REJECTED It soon became evident that the rejection of the United States to appreciate what Iran had contributed with to the United States engagement in Afghanistan did not sit well with the leaders of the Islamic Republic. Tehran's generous intent would have been a Golden opportunity for Washington to better its relations with Tehran, but in wain! It seemed that the Americans was not yet ready to hand their Iranian contributors a firm and lasting handshake.His Excellency Dr. Hossein Adeli had been the Central Bank Governor, Ambassador to England, Canada and Japan.   Dr. Adeli was interviewed by Harald Dahle in the Foreign Department May 6, 2002. Dr. Adeli was visibly annoyed during the Iran-US part of the interview.    THE IRAN-US RELATIONS Dahle: -Tehran has sent an invitation to Washington for a meeting and better the relations between the two sides. I understand that the United States has rejected this initiative. How do you view the current relations with Washington after this disappointment?   Adeli: -Well, actually our relations with the West  in general has improved a lot during the last, may be four, five years.   Dahle: -Yes.   Adeli: -Specially with the policies that have been followed by President Khatami, Dialogue among Civilization, the Rule of Law, the Principles of Civil Society, the elimination of tension between Iran or other countries, or elimination of misunderstanding. All of these policies have been seriously followed by Iran in its foreign policy and has contributed to the relations with all countries of the world except the United States. And with the West in general we have been able also to exchange delegations on the level of Foreign Minister and head of Governments.   US MILITARY SUCCESS US Air Mobility Command   Adeli - But with the United States, it is unfortunately to see, that even developments in Afghanistan, which owes a lot to understanding and effective assistance from Iran, has not, I believe been able to penetrate into the hearts or the minds of decision makers in the United States. Dahle: -Without the help from Iran in Afghanistan, you say that the United States would not have been where they are now?   Adeli: -I think that there is no doubt, even in the American eyes, that what the situation that we see now in Afghanistan owes a lot to Iranian assistance, Iranian understanding. The military success of the United States owes a lot to understanding and appreci-ation from Iran. And also,  the political process in Afghanistan owes the same thing. And may be that was a very unique opportunity for the United States to reciprocate these kinds of understanding, and to seize and stop the kind of policies that are pursued by them, in the past, may be, couple of decades. But apparently there is not still a strong sign from that side!   Dahle: -Iran has friendly relations with many countries in the world, so why not also with the United States?   Adeli: -Off course, the general policy of Iran is to have friendly relations with every country in the world including the United States, provided that this kind of relationship would be based on an equal footing, on a mutually satisfactory, mutually beneficial sort of relationship. So, this is why I think that, as the policies of the United States, which are normally a unilateral policy, we hope that one time they would join the other countries of the West, the other developing countries, join that kind of understanding of Iran. That the developments in the region and developments in Iran would open their eyes, and that they would adopt a new policy toward our country!   THE IRAN-IRAQ RELATION President Khamenei visits an Iran-Iraq war battle field 1988   Dahle: Dr. Adeli can you please outline Iran’s policy on Iraq for our readers.    Adeli: Yes, we believe in the policy of President Khatami of Dialogue among Civilization and Coalition for Peace, so these are the policies that we are following. So, if we are against that kind of attack on Iraq is not because we lose opportunity or, I mean we may have our own differences with Iraq, but this is out of a principal position that differences should be settled in an amicable way. Or in a non-hostile way, or a non-armed conflict.   THE TALIBAN AND 9-11 Dahle: So that Iran prioritize to follow the United Nations to solve conflicts. What about the Taliban attack on nine-eleven? Should that have been solved in the UN as well?    Adeli: That attack on the United States is not like the hostility that erupted between Taliban and the United States, these are two different cases. In Taliban case, where Americans were hit directly, America could justify for the world to fire back.  But in terms of other kind of differences we have created the United Nations in order to settle differences in other ways; to take a gun and start shooting is a bad idea.   We don’t say that the differences that exist between the United States and the international behavior of Iraq is justified, we don’t say that. May be there is lots of wrong behavior on the part of Iraq. However, the way to deal with it is not to take the gun and shoot, because if that would become and exemplary way and be followed by the others, then there is lots of differences between many countries in the world. And one cannot say that whoever is stronger should take the gun and shoot! Therefore, we are having strong reservations against these kinds of actions, and we don’t want to see them happen.     GOVERNMENT OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN THE CENTRAL BANK IRAN The Central Bank of Iran, also known as Bank Markazi, officially the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran is the central bank of Iran. Established under the Iranian Banking and Monetary Act in 1960, it serves as the banker to the Iranian government and has the exclusive right of issuing banknote and coinage.      THE CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR Dahle: -Your Excellency, you were the Central Bank Governor from ninety eighty-nine till ninety ninety-four. I anticipate that it was a time of great importance taking into consideration the situation after the war. Looking back, could you please give your thoughts on this period, thank you. The Central Bank Headquarter Tehran   Adeli: -Well, off course I served under President Rafsanjani as the Central Bank Governor and off course  as my President, now and then on different occasions like Nowruz or the New Year I go and see him. And I would facilitate him on the different occasions and so from time to time I go and see him as I go and see the other very high-level dignitaries with whom I had relationship before. President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani   Dahle: -When Khomeini came to power on February first nineteen seventy-nine a new chapter started for Iran. How do you view that time in retrospect? Could you please give your thoughts on this, thank you.   Adeli: -Frankly speaking, in my personal opinion, what is taking place is the continuation of an evolutionary process which has really started from beginning of revolution. I mean, nobody can deny that what is seen today can not be analyzed in isolation. What started twenty-three years ago? We started free elections, and we have been able to conduct twenty-two free elections. And the people got used to these kinds of elections. Off course now our elections, our general elections are more participated dynamically.   Dahle: -Yes.   Adeli: -But if we hadn’t had the previous elections we would not have been able to these lively, dynamic elections. Because to participate in the general election is a culture, it’s not the kind of mechanical order coming from Government to the other, therefore we started the principles and elements of free society twenty-three years ago.   Dahle: -Dr. Adeli, when you sat as the Central Bank Governor did you then make yourself some thoughts, a vision how you would like the economy to go?   Adeli: -Well actually, not only did we have our own vision, but we also expressed it repeatedly on television and in the media. At that time, we created a program for the reforming of the economy, and we were informing the people on the various measures that we were creating. We wanted to create an economy that was competitive and in which the people ore the private sector would be the dominant sector of the economy and would be able to compete and seize the opportunity in a competitive environment. Therefore, we started in our own financial sector.   Dahle: -In what area did you first start to refurbish the economy, Dr. Adeli?   Adeli: -We applied the reform for the reducing of the multiplicity of the exchange rate, for unifying the exchange frate. We had lots of rates and wanted to unify them. We had a very administered, monetary policy. We took measures to liberalizing the monetary policy so that monetary policy would be determined by the rates and by the appropriate measures of monetary policy, instead of bureaucratic and administrative decisions. We revived the Stock Exchange as a capital market in order to assist the money market.   At that time, we did not have an active money market, it was a dead Stock Exchange created in Iran thirty years ago. It was inactive and we activated it after the war with the very rules of the market. We also applied the creation of private sector financial institutions. At that time, off course, we were not successful in getting the legislation approved for establishing the private banks, but we were able and successful non-bank financial institutions by the private sector.   Dahle: -Such as the Bonyad?   Adeli: -No, no, no! Financial institutions which could do most of the bank transactions, but they are limited in being full-fledged commercial bank; they were short of just one, two transactions. They were banks – I mean non-bank financial institutions are defined as banks without the permission to do one or two banking transactions, so you don’t call them banks, but they are full-fledged commercial banks.   Dahle: -They lack one or two banking transactions but are still full-fledged banks, I understand, thank you for clearing this up.   Adeli: -We also introduced new instruments such as the bonds, which we introduced un an Islamic way. And for the first time we introduced the notion of having real interest rate. We introduced the notion of independent Central Bank for which I really fought for, and I was relatively successful; that was for the first time in the Islamic economic literature that a notion of an independent Central Bank was introduced.   Therefore, we created an environment where the prices are determined by the market forces not by the administrative decisions. We wanted an environment where subsidies are targeted and are conveyed and given to the consumers in a very transparent way rather than in an indirect way; an environment were trade would be liberalized to the extent that would create a competitive environment and would not damage the industrial power or capability of the country.   To have an active and dynamic international relationship with the other capital markets, with the other money markets, with the other countries. Therefore, the economy we were thinking of and we envisioned at that time would be dynamic, emerging and developing, one which would have the participation of the people themselves, and to have them as the dominant power of the economy.   Dahle: -So, alongside the political revolution you have had an economic revolution?   Adeli: -Well I think that was a prerequisite that was applied and took place to certain extent; off course, in some policies we were not hundred percent successful, but in general and in average we were successful. After the war we started the application of economic reforms,  very bold and ambitious economic reforms. I must say, that were targeting the free economy, or open economy, or whatever you want to call it. So, we started revising the subsidies, stimulating the economy, deregulating, targeting downsizing of the Government, targeting the zero-deficit budget and unification of the exchange rate.   All of these reforms started just after the war. These sorts of economic dynamics were partly successful and partly failure, but all of them contributed to the creation of environment in which the people could start thinking of other needs, of other requirements which are political requirements, which are of a higher nature, of free expressions in the papers, in the media and the other things.   This is why I can see that what has been taken place in Iran is not a new thing. It is the continuation of an evolutionary process. You may see some new phenomena – but these new phenomena are not an isolated phenomena just created from scratch today, because this is a social process, we are talking about a social process which has its roots in the developments that took place in the earlier decades. And this is why the stage in which we are now is a stage which we are proud of.   Developments that have been taking place the past six years after the Government of President Khatami, these are quit dramatic evolutionary phenomena which have boosted our country and that we are very much proud of.   Dahle: -Dramatic indeed!   Adeli: -From a social point of view one cannot say that this is separated from what took place before ore even what took place before that. I mean before President Khatami was President Rafsanjani, before President Rafsanjani we were not in a very good situation because we were fighting a war. But, even when we were at war we had quite a different way of participating in the public debate and in decision making than we used to have it before revolution. So, this is how I see all of these processes of social, political, economic, and evolutionary changes that are taking place, and I hope that these would continue to take place in the future because we are committed to this way and because the nature of this reform is reversable. And in the past twenty-three years we have seen that this has taken – in spite of ups and downs which you would see in the curves in the money market every day or at the stock exchange – we have had a rising curve, and an upward curve.   Dahle: Dr. Adeli what will you say to foreign investors who are thinking of coming her and investing?   Adeli: -We have one general message to all foreign investors that we have lots of opportunities in Iran in various sectors; in telecom sector, in automobile sector in auto sectors, in mining sector and withing IT. There are lots of sectors where we would welcome foreign investors, even in the very high-tech services. Therefor the opportunities are here, and the economy has been successfully sustaining twelve years of  consecutive growth, and this is very important! And this has been done and has been achieved despite oil price volatility in the past decade. We have had two sharp volatilities, one in ninety-three, the other in ninety-seven, ninety-eight where the oil prices fell down.   Despite of this, Iran was successfully sustaining the growth without any interruption in the past twelve years. The economy is quite dynamic and is generating lots of opportunities, especially with the developments that are taking place in the region, this is number one. Number two, in the general message, is the reforms that are taking place in Iran, and they are all aiming at providing a very receptive environment.   I will give you a couple of examples on this. On tax, Iran used to be one of the highest tax rates of the developing countries with fifty-five percent on corporate tax and ten percent on income tax amounting to sixty-four percent. We have reduced this flatly to twenty-five percent, which is quite compatible to other developing countries, especially in our region and makes us one of the tax friendly countries. Another development is the Foreign Investment law. We give production to foreign investors; we would support them by any kind of guarantees and also facilities that are provided by our ministries.   THE ENERGY HUB OF THE REGION And also, we have in the new – proceeding its final step – we are letting them to invest hundred percent in Iran. So, this is why the environment is quite mature and is quite ready for them to go ahead. And there are also some other reforms that are taking place which have more internal implications that would provide a very good supportive environment for investors, like the deregulation and privatization in the financial sector. I don’t want to go into details, but the special message for the oil and gas industry and investors is that Iran is becoming – like it or not - the hub for the region for energy distribution.   Iran is a gas rich country second to Russia, and there are lots of developments that are taking place and makes Iran as a major exporter of gas in various parts. We are now discussing the gas pipeline to India; we have already started the gas pipeline to Turkey; we are starting a gas pipeline to Armenia; we are discussing gas pipelines to some of the Persian Gulf countries that are going to be gas-deficit countries, and we are planning the gas pipeline to Europe. There are LNG facilities in the Persian Gulf and there are lots of activities and oil, upstream and downstream; it’s a very busy country in terms of oil and gas.   And the fact is that the world is going to demand more oil, more energy, more fossil energy in the future, and would also be more dependent on gas, what is called the fuel for the twenty-first century. Seen in this context, I guess that Iran is one of the most attractive countries with business opportunities in this sector.   DOMESTIC INFLATION Dahle: -Thank you Dr. Adeli. Can you say some words regarding inflation in Iran at the moment.   Adeli: -Fortunately inflation in the past few years, due to the management of fiscal policy, a very disciplined fiscal policy, and also a very conservative and prudent monetary policy, have come down. Historically, my be in the past fifteen years the inflation in Iran has been around seventeen to twenty percent, an average of the past twelve years. But in the past two years, due to the sort of these disciplined policies in the budget in the fiscal and the monetary the inflation has come down to eleven-point eight percent, less than twelve percent. This is due the fact that reforms that are taking place in Iran are aimed at down-sizing the government, therefore downsizing the expenses of the government, and therefore is facilitating the target of zero-deficit budget. So, in the past couple of years we have been able to achieve this very important target of zero-deficit budget of Iran. This har really contributed to the curbing and checking the inflation, so inflation now is below twelve and is relative satisfactory to our views.   THE FREE ZONES AND FREE ZONE ISLANDS Dahle: -I took part in a seminar in 2020 about Free Trade Zones and Islands held at the University of Kish, on the island of Kish. Hossein Nassiri, the president of Free Trade Zones was the main speaker. What is your impression of the so-called free-trade zones and islands?   Adeli: -Free zones are considered to be zones without any regulations, without any bureaucracy so that the foreigners can go there without visas, there are no taxes levied on anything and the regulations, the licenses are given to foreign investors and the foreign investor do not have any limitation. But at the same time, they are not seen as the main gate for facilitating the foreign investment. Actually, we are very much putting emphasis on the main land regulations to make it as easy as possible, as receptive as possible to attract foreign investors to Iran. Therefore, the free zones are seen as facilitators not just catalysts ; that is something that will going to be there in parallel with pursuing vigorously to make the internal and the main land environment as attractive as possible.   GAS-TO-LIQUID PROJECTS Dahle: -Gas-to-liquid projects are very in the wind nowadays. What is Iran’s position?   Adeli: -Well, GTL-projects and LNG-projects both are very important projects for Iran as a long term and long-standing gas exporter and gas supplier specially versus the distant markets like Japan and China. We have plans to jointly develop facilities and installations for GTL as well as for LNG for Japan and China and even for other parts of the world. I mean any sort of willingness on the part of countries who are willing to join us in developing these fields or developing the facilities, investing in the facilities, are much welcome.   Dahle: -And Norway?   Adeli: -Yes, Norway is very interested in investing in this sector is now seeking various kind of opportunities, and off course GTL and LNG are sectors that your companies can consider and study investing in.   THE IRAN-NORWAY RELATIONS            Dahle: -How do you Dr. Adeli see the Iran-Norway relation now?   Adeli: -In my view I guess that the two countries have found each other recently. The two countries have had off course relationship for a long period of time, but they have not had effective and adequate communication to understand each other’s potential and each other’s opportunities.   Dahle: -What do you mean by that, sir?   Adeli: -I think that in the recent years the contact between the two sides have increased and communication has made understanding more possible, and opportunity have been created by the exchange of delegations for exploring new areas and new businesses.   In my view the two countries should have joined forces may be twenty years ago, or fifteen years ago or ten years ago to have investment in upstream. But now we see that Statoil has come seriously, they have applied for and seeking (businesses). And off course it is very much welcomed, and it has been facilitated by our ministry of oil, and this is the beginning, I think, of a long road and a vast opportunity for both sides to get involved in the various sectors. Off course oil and gas is the priority and it’s your expertise, and your expertise is not confined and limited to oil and gas, you have other expertise; this is the beginning of marriage and there are lots of other activities to be followed by this very happy sort of joint effort in oil and gas.   IRANS TRADING PARTNERS Dahle: -Who are your first trading partner nowadays?   Adeli: -Our first trading partner is the European Union, and our second trading partner is Japan. We have an excellent relationship with Japan. And in terms of economic cooperation off course, Japan is quite involved in the various sectors of Iran, and we are  happy to have this cooperation with them in trade, in economic cooperation, in oil and gas; in the various sectors we have welcomed them, and they have been a very committed partner of Iran in various kinds.   THE IRAN-JAPAN RELATIONS   Adeli: -And we also have a very good understan-ding with them, and we know off course the limitations of Japan’s foreign policy. And at the same time there is a very high-level and unique under-standing of each other, Iran, and Japan, so that it created the opportunity for the Iranian President Khatami to visit Japan – so we have relation with them on the highest level in political terms, and on the highest level in economic terms. We do not have any  impediment or any obstacle in expanding and deepening and exploring even more opportunities of business relationship with each other.   Ambassador Adeli has received Japan's highest order  the Order of the Rising Sun by Japans Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the highest Order given to any Iranian National for his important role in the Iran–Japan Relation.   Japanese Emperor Order awarded to Iranian diplomat Japanese Emperor Order of 'Rising Sun, Golden and Silver Star' was awarded by Japanese Prime Minister to Iranian diplomat Mohammad Hossein Adeli.   In a ceremony in the Japanese Emperor palace in Tokyo on Friday May 9, 2014, in the presence of Japanese statesmen and four other foreign diplomats who received the award, the Order of 'Rising Sun, Golden and Silver Star' was awarded to Mohammad Hossein Adeli by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Japanese Emperor, in a speech, felicitated the recipients of the award for their accomplishments and wished success and health for them and appreciated the recipients of the Order for their efforts in direction of improving relations and understanding of their respective country with Japan. Already, Shinzo Abe in a letter had invited Adeli to attend the ceremony to receive Japanese Emperor Order. Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun   Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida also in a letter had felicitated the occasion to Adeli on April 29, 2014. In a statement by Japan's Emperor Court, it was said that Dr. Adeli, during his tenure as ambassador in Japan in late 1980's, made a big effort to develop bilateral relations. When he was governor of Iran's Central Bank, Adeli wrote a book on Japan development after World War II and delivered speeches about Japan growth pattern. He was among organizers of Iran-Japan Friendship Society and still is head of the society.   After Tsunami in Japan, Adeli, in an article expressed sympathy with Japanese people and invited Iranians to express sympathy with Japanese nation. The Order of ' Rising Sun, Golden and Silver Star' is the highest Japanese Emperor Order awarded to an Iranian official. In 2002, Adeli received High Order of Swiss Kranz Montana Economic Forum, which was awarded by Prince Albert of Monaco.  Dahle: -And with this superb answer I would like to thank you Dr. Adeli for this interview.   Adeli: -After you have finished talking with everybody here in the Foreign Ministry, the National Iranian Oil Company and all the other places in Tehran you have to give each of them marks from top to bottom, right?   Dahle: -Well, I think that you range as number one Dr. Adeli, no doubt about that!   Adeli: -Oh, thank you so much, thank you very much! (laughing happily).

Main Story of the Month

INTRODUCTION

In 2000 Norway finally entered the Islamic Republic of Iran. Then, the Foreign Ministry in Tehran had waited for thirty years and longer wondering why Norway with its specialized deep-water technologies had not come and helped Iran to develop the South Pars project, as well as other on -and offshore  projects in the Islamic Republic.

Assaluyeh Pars Special Energy Economi Zone

Even before the plane with its Government officials and representa-tives of the petroleum-related industries had left the Norwegian air-space, Norway had in fact already lost its unique business opportunity in the Islamic republic of Iran. These fish eating latecomers had all arrived Teheran’s Mehrabad Airport from a country which, in a radical way, distances itself from piety and where spirituality does not have any important place in the daily lives of the people. And were the word "Islam" in their nordic consciousness often is associated with terrorism and threats. The stage was now set for a humongous clash between two contradictory civilizations!

THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

ENDGAME TEHERAN

If Justice shall have any meaning at all, it must include

the person responsible for the Crime.

 Harald Dahle-Sladek

The Editor-in-chief

From the very outset it was the twisted Norwegian mindset, the whole chain of command in Oslo and it's ill prepared bureaucracy that faulted. Right from the Parliament down through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Energy and Oil, INTSOK and the industry, and the medium sized oil company Statoil whose ethical bearing were out of course. Their factual relations to Iran were all seriously lagging behind and bribery and corruption were only two unpleasant sides of a larger and more complex picture. Welcome to Norway's worst diplomatic, ethical and industrial catastrophy in modern times.

Norwegians in Tehran were rapidly revealing a devastating lack of empathic feelings and an over emphasizing on cognitive thinking in general and diplomatic correctness in particular. Among Norwegian dignitaries in Oslo and Tehran the phrase "the People of Iran" was nowhere to be heard. However, from the Iranian side, having the People of Iran in focus was a prerequisite for doing business in the country. Thus, as we shall see, from the very outset Norway were on a collision course with the Islamic republic; Norway and Statoil did nothing for the People of Iran.



In the case of Norway and Statoil in Iran, the agreement between Department of Justice and Statoil did not include that person responsible for the crime. Thus, the US Department of Justice and Norway's Økokrim both failed their obligation, to indict and prosecute the head of Statoil Olav Fjell. It gives the wrongest signal possible, and that is very serious. That the medium sized Norwegian oil company Statoil can pay itself out of bribery is intollerable. And the US-based Law firm Sulliwan & Cromwell representing Statoil did a splendid job facilitating just that!



Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani

The decision to bribe Mehdi, the son of President Hashemi Rafsanjani was awfully bad for Norway! In the eyes of the international community it was the worst that could happen. And Norway had to pay a heavy price. The total disrespect for an ethical bearing, suddenly revealed a system that collapsed for the whole world to admire. It was really bad, and totally unnecessary.

THE NOBEL PEACE PRICE TO SHIRIN EBADIN

In the middle of the Norway bribery scandal with Iran in 2003 the Nobel Committee gave the Peace Prize to Iranian opposition lawyer Shirin Ebadin. It was not enough with one problem with Iran, Norway had to create  a second! It was also a slap in the face of President Khatami and his Dialog among Civilizations program.

A SUSTAINABLE DIALOGUE AND COMMON GROUND?

The Norwegian Nobel Committee abuses its power and use the Prize in a political context to push the agenda of the Norwegian Parliament, Stortinget. They did it with Iran in 2003 and with the Peoples Republic of China seven years later. Both instances prove that the Norwegian Parliament, the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and the Foreign Ministry in Oslo are seriously lacking in experience in their ability to create sustainable dialog and common ground in international relations. In this context it remains a mystery to us what Norway can contribute to in the UN Security Council for the common good of Mankind.



NORWAY IN THE SECURITY COUNCIL

  The return of the Emperor’s New Clothes! 

With the promises (read: bribes) of future gains for supporting a place

for itself in the UN Security Council, Norway finally got itself a hot seat.

The situation between Iran and Norway was a catastrophe, and with the Statoil bribery-case rapidly unfolding it took just another twelve months before Norway was kicked out of Iran. Shortly after in 2010, Norway detonated another diplomatic bomb, this time with China as result of naively giving Chinese opposition personality Wen Jiabao the Nobel Peace Prize. It took Norway ten years to establish a new diplomatic foothold in the Peoples Republic of China. Two of humanity’s oldest cultures, the Persian and the Chinese had in less than ten years both denied Norway access. An astonishing achieve-ment on the world diplomatic scene. 

Hans Christian Andersen

wrote The Emperors New Clothes

To compensate for this traumatic downfall, and to show the entire upper echelon of the ruling world-elite that Norway could be trusted, it set forth to conquer a chair in the Security Council. And won! The overstretched country with its microscopic population of 5.4 million fish eating Norwegians was now geared to show off its new clothes. Like the Emperor in the fairytale by H C Andersen.

Many applauded Norway, but the few who knew her better were embarrassed and lowered their sights as the Queen from the North strutted her feathers. They were not fooled. Neither are we! What Norway can contribute with in the Security Council is unclear to us, but should it be en par with her Iran and China operations, then God help us all.

 At last the Norwegian Government had decided to enter the Islamic Republic of Iran. But it's reputation and political standing were to be ruined by lack of experience in creating dialogue and common ground with the Embassy of Iran in Oslo, and a deeper understanding of doing business with Teheran. Any previous negative energy between the two sides was carefully being hidden behind a constructed façade of exuberant optimism. And then, in an instant, the scene-carpet came down.

Opening of the Parliament Stortinget, Oslo

 E mail to the Department of Justice

Department of Justice

Attention the Attorney General

From Harald Dahle-Sladek, Oslo Norway

haroldsworld@petrofilm.com

www.petrofilm.com

                                                                            Oslo, October 2nd, 2020

Dear Sir,

I am writing to you to inform you about an article that I have written on my web page www.petrofilm.com It is the main article of the month of October and bears the title “ENDGAME TEHRAN.” In it I analyze the Statoil-Iran-bribery Case. Although the Department of Justice made an agreement with Statoil (Norway), the then head of the company Olav Fjell was never indicted.

My article proves that Olav Fjell in fact was responsible for the downfall of Statoil. The information revealed in the article proves that the information given by Statoil to Department of Justice does not constitutes the whole truth and is a breach of the agreement between Statoil and the Department.

The case of Statoil in Iran did not happen as a sudden bang but came as a result of assumptions that had to be present over time. It was therefore imperative on the part of the Norwegian power apparatus to prevent access to any context in something that was of a far more serious nature than Statoil's role in isolation. The full and complete truth would have revealed the full and complete responsibility. And they were not interested in that from the Norwegian side.

Tehran’s Ambassador to Oslo His Excellency Noghrehkar Shirazi told me, “In a meeting at Statoil where Olav Fjell was present, I gave him the mobile phone number of our Minister of Oil Zanganeh. Mr. Zanganeh had said to me, that if Fjell had any question in any direction, he was free to call. But Fjell never called him, and Zanganeh thought that very strange!” And that became the end for Statoil in Iran.

I can refer to United States versus the car maker VW. Where top leaders were indicted. If Justice shall mean something it should include the person(s) responsible for the crime.

Best regards

Harald Dahle-Sladek



Norwegian Energy Partners NORWEP (INTSOK)

Owned by the Ministry of Oil, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

the Norwegian Government and the Industry

On 10 January 2005, a meeting was held at INTSOK, Norwegian Oil and Gas Partners, in Hoffsveien 1, entrance 1A 4th floor. Present at the meeting were Knut Gulbrand Wangen, CEO of INTSOK and Harald Dahle from his own company Petroconsult. The meeting was arranged at the request of Dahle and lasted from one o'clock to about a quarter past two and a half. At the end of the meeting Mr. Wangen was deeply affected by the content and seriousness of the conver-sation. He himself expressed a certain dismay at everything Dahle had told him. 

At the meeting with Wangen on January 10, 2005, I said that even though my work was not accepted by INTSOK and by all the others, it could be worthwhile to invite me onto the carpet to hear a different facet, a different nuance than the one usually heard about Iran. Mr Wangen looked at me as he understood what I was talking about but said that such an input was not interesting. I wondered and sat back with a feeling of exclusion and little value at the same time as I understood that it was precisely such input from the side that could have brought in new knowledge and understanding. But this was not the case. Only the drawn official line was acceptable.

Representative Mr. Werner Karlsson of the Norwegian Oil and Gas Partners INTSOK to the editor-in-chief Harald Dahle-Sladek: You are not worried about human rights in Iran, are you? They take the lives of people, stone them .."

The opening of the Norway-Iran conference by INTSOK at Hotel Azadi in Tehran was a toned down and poorly presented presentation from the Norwegian side. The Norwegian minister spoke low, indistinct and did not have a friendly and positive attitude. No joy, no warmth. And no enthusiasm at all. It was a sad affair with an awfully bad audio. Embarrassing to travel so far and spend so much money and time with such a poor result. Beautiful suits probably do a lot, but far from enough.

THIS MONTH'S STORY CONTINUED. . .

THE THREE TRACKS

                                            Iran                  Norway        Petrofilm Dialoge Films         

Who agreed with whom, and who did not?

 My interests and Iran's interests coincided namely, to create dialogue and common ground and focus on the "People of Iran". A factor that was totally absent from the Norwegian side.

My interests did not coincide with the interests and perceptions of the Norwegians. I was there to create dialogue and common ground. Norway was there to make money and did not emphasize with the "People of Iran" which was a pre-requisite from the Iranian side if one   wanted to succeed in creating sustainable business in the country. Norwegian industry coincided with Iran’s but did a weak job of presenting the breadth of what Norway could offer in terms of services.

I came in from the sideline through an industrial three-national seismic project and thought it would be wise to have a round of talks in Tehran. Tehran had not experienced such attention as I gave them, and they therefore opened up all their doors to me, to Oslo's great annoyance.

It was first my dialog creating work aimed at the Iranians who came from Teheran to Oslo in 1998/99 within the three-national Persian Carpet 2000 seismic project. From North of the Persian Gulf to the Oman Sea. Six ships, lots of equipment and about one thousand people.

Then it was my "Vison of Iran" filmed interview project in 2002 in Teheran to lift up the People of Iran. The phrase "the people of Iran" was repeated over and over to me from the Iranian side, in the Foreign Ministry in Teheran. 

Then it was the Iranian Ambassador to Oslo Noghrehkar Shirazi's year-long grudge against the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that was a separate project seen through his eyes and the Foreign Ministry in Teheran. These were two different projects, one within a seismic project, the other within diplomatic tensions between Iran and Norway.

The idea to create dialog and common ground was much the same for both tracks, but the information I received in Tehran and the usefulness and use of it were different for both. The information that Ambassador Ali Ahani gave me about the situation between Iran and Norway, for example, belonged only to the diplomatic project initiated by Ambassador to Oslo, Noghrehkar Shirazi, and myself.

The information I received from Mohammad Mohaddes in the National Iranian Oil Company NIOC about the latter announcing new exploration blocks, only belonged to the seismic project and was especially useful for Norwegian seismic company Global Geo Services in Oslo.

The Norwegian Storting, the Parliament, in principle coincided with Iran’s Parliament, Majlis. Top-level agreement.

The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs coincided with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran's view, but was charged with poor and late follow-up from Oslo over many years.

The views of the Ministers of Energy and Oil Mr. Olav Akselsen (2000) and Mr. Einar Steensnes (2003) in Oslo coincided in principle with the views of Minister of Oil Mr. Bijan Zanganeh in Teheran.

Statoil's management in Teheran, Mr. Harald Finnvik, coincided with the Ministry of Oil and NIOC, and at the same time it did not when Statoil ran its own under-the-table bribery race with Mehdi, the son of former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, who was Director for one of the NIOC companies.

My one hour talk on May 19, 2002 with Mr. Mehdi Mirmoezi, Deputy Minister of Petroleum and President of the National Iranian Oil Company NIOC, revealed that NIOC was in fact "very satisfied" with the works that Statoil's people had done so far in Iran.

A miserable presentation of Norway to the Iranian officials  in Tehran. Another miserable presentation by Deputy Minister of oil from Norway at the INTSOK opening at Azadi Hotel.

Norway probably meant it well, but presented itself amateurishly and did not mirror the Iranian culture and the greatness in the Iranian people. They not create thrust trough empathy and understood little or nothing at all. Lots of handshaking and bla-bla, but hardly any results to speak of. Talk about missing out on a huge opportunity!

  IRAN DAILY November 23, 2000

Left corner, Iran's powerful Minister of Oil Bijan Zanganeh, right corner

Minister for Energy and Oil, Norway Olav Akselsen in Teheran November 22nd 2000.

Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi

in April 2002, I visited my Iranian friend Mohammad Ali Abtahi in Tehran. Mohammad had been vice president to President Khatami, and he now headed the Institute for Dialog between the Religions. “The Christian God and the Islamic God is the same, one God,” Mohammad told me confidently with a smile.

Abtahi confirmed that both religions have many things in common, and that today the world needs dialog. The most important parts that are building civilizations are religions. But if every religion believes that it is the only and holy religion, we will not have dialog with other religions. Today dialog between the religions is taken very seriously and this is so because man feels that he must take special notice and care of what is common in the religions, because there is a common danger threatening the religions. The soul of the religions is spirituality, and it is being hurt in our time. This is a danger which threatens both Islam and Christianity. We have had many wars and unrest in the world, and this is also because of the lack of spirituality. Because of this the different religions need to collaborate.



The Minister

CLICK HERE PLAY ZANGANEH

Minister of Oil Mr. Bijan Zanganeh

"I gave Fjell (CEO of STATOIL)  my mobile phone number,

but he never called me back!"

A BETRAYAL FROM THE NORWEGIAN SIDE

 "Why put money under the table,

when it should have been transfered into a nice offer

laid on the table?"

                                                                       The Editor-in-Chief

How an error in Spirit

became a Catastrophic failure in Matter.

"Isolating the case as a purely financial matter would at the same time prevent insight into the other underlying causes. Therefore, it can be said that the media largely refrained from tackling these underlying causes, and in that way played along with the scapegoat Statoil as well as with the Norwegian power apparatus." 

 The CEO

CEO of Statoil Olav Fjell is interviewed by the Norwegian

state-owned TV Channel "NRK".

Olav Fjell: We all live in a yellow submarine

DEVASTATING: STATOIL CEO OLAV FJELL, THE ONE WHO KNEW!

Norway had set its course and moved majestically through the sea like a modern cruise liner. But the Iranian waters proved to unfamiliar to navigate in and the ship headed for a disaster. But nobody on the Bridge cared.



NORWAY: DARK CLOUDS GATHERING

    Norway’s entering into the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2000 became a prelude to the worst diplomatic and industrial disaster the country had ever experienced. Only overshadowed by its nightmarish relations to Peoples Republic of China, in 2010 after the Norwegian parliament-appointed Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Peace prize to  Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo. In both cases Norway used its check-book diplomacy to crawl back and normalize its relations. To make oneself unpopular with two of the oldest civilations on the planet in less than ten years is quite an achievement in itself!

FROM THE PARLIAMENT DOWN

    At last the Norwegian Government had decided to enter the Islamic Republic of Iran. But it's reputation and political standing were to be ruined by lack of experience in creating dialogue and common ground with the Embassy of Iran in Oslo, and a deeper understanding of doing business with Teheran. Any previous negative energy between the two sides was carefully being hidden behind a constructed façade of exuberant optimism. And then, in an instant, the scene-carpet came down.

ZANGANEH'S MOBILE PHONE NUMBER

    During a good-bye reception at the Iranian Embassy in March 2004, just months before ending his four-year period as Ambassador and leaving Oslo for Teheran, Ambassador Noghrehkar Shirazi revealed to the Editor-in-Chief Harald Dahle the following.

Shirazi:

"During a meeting that was held at the Statoil headquarter, I conveyed a message to Olav Fjell from our Minister of Oil Mr. Zanganeh. Zanganeh had instructed me to say that if Fjell had a question, ore problem, he could just phone him on his mobile phone. So, I gave Olav Fjell the mobile phone number Zanganeh had given me, but Fjell never called him back. The problems which Statoil had could easily have been cleaned out with Zanganeh over the phone, but there was no sign from Statoil and Zanganeh found this very odd!"

    It is worth commenting that at the time when Bijan Zanganeh instructed Ambassador Shirazi to give CEO Olav Fjell his private mobile phone number, he was already aware of Statoil's under-the-table operations with son of president Hashemi Rafsanjani. This is the impression that Harald Dahle got from Shirazi in March 2004.

STATOIL'S BETRAYAL AND DOUBLE-CROSSINGS

    In other words, if Statoil had a problem, any problem, - and as CEO of the company Olav Fjell would have known - he could easily have talked these matters over with Iran's powerful Minister of oil Mr. Bijan Zanganeh, but strangely enough he did not do that. The Ministry of Oil and the National Iranian Oil Company took this as a betrayal.

    Statoil had doubled crossed not only Tehran's powerful Minister of Oil Bijan Zanganeh, but also their own representative in Iran Mr. Harald Finnvik who knew nothing about the home offices bizarre under-the-table deals. And it quickly became the end for Statoil in Iran. The problems for Statoil in Iran only increased after that.

TEHERAN: STATOIL EMPLYEES ON THE OUTSIDE

    Said during the INTSOK Gardermoen Airport Conference Center gathering in February 2002 which Harald Dahle-Sladek attended:

Director Arne Eriksen, Statoil,

"As you can see, I am very frustrated. The Iranians are polite towards us (in Tehran), but we have a distinct impression of being kept on the "outside" of things...and it is a question for how long this can go on before we have to pull out altogether."

Harald Dahle-Sladek, Petrofilm,

"I suggested to Statoil's Arne Eriksen (who was in Tehran) on the phone that I was willing to negotiate with the Iranians for a better understanding between the two sides.

But, after consulting with his people Eriksen came back and said that it was of no interest to them.

I found their decision remarkably devoid of initiative and empathy; they simply did not fathom how to treat their Iranian counterpart." 

INTSOK - Norwegian Oil and Gas Partners, is a Norwegian organization owned jointly by the Ministry of Energy and Oil, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and about 100 of Norways largest, medium sized and small industrial companies for the purpose of helping and guiding these companies into foreign countries, under the umbrella of Norway's politics and regulations. Between 2000 and 2003 the Export Council of Norway was also involved.

RESPONSIBILITY WAS HEAVIEST AT THE TOP

    It was also incumbent of the Norwegian authorities to isolate the damage by acquitting the actual head of Statoil, Olav Fjell in order in this way, to quickly direct the responsibility downwards in the organi-zation and not upwards. The State acquitted itself, and the first to "be sanitized" was the Statoil CEO Olav Fjell himself.

    Norway's catastrophic involvement in the Islamic Republic of Iran between 2000 and 2003 is a good example of what I will describe as a vertical system collapse. The Oslo-Tehran-Statoil collapse did not spread in a horizontal direction, but was shaped like a wedge with the tip down. The relationship of responsibility was clearly heaviest at the top, which is the opposite conclusion that was drawn by the collective Norwegian  media elite at the time.

The Foreign Ministry

 NORWAY-IRAN FOREIGN POLITICS

"It was in fact the Norwegian foreign politics versus Iran in

the thirty odd years preceding 2000 that created the

groundwork for a future conflict between

the two sides, in 2003." The Editor-in-Cief

Teheran's Ambassador to Oslo Mr. Noghrehkar Shirazi

to the Editor-in-Chief Harald Dahle:

"The Norwegian Foreign Department and the others see that you run fast and reach high levels in Tehran, and it irritates them!

My be, many years ago they should have done the works

you have been doing now!"



Ministry of Foreign Affairs Oslo: Created the ground work for future conflict.



A SYSTEM COLLAPSE FROM THE PARLIAMENT AND DOWN

    The STATOIL bribery case with Iran was a System collapse from the Norwegian Parliament, down through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Oslo; INTSOK, the Export Council, and STATOIL. It was incumbent on the Norwegian State to isolate the damage by acquitting the actual head of Statoil, the person who knew everything, Olav Fjell in order in this way to quickly direct the responsibility downwards in the organizationand not upwards.



A FOREIGN POLITICS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET

     Statoil needed to expand its area of operations abroad  and were indeed welcomed by Iran's Minister of Oil Bijan Zanganeh. However, with regards to the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Foreign Ministry in Oslo had for thirty years and longer been walking on both sides of the street and cultivated contacts with opposition group like the Mujahed-din Kalk MEK - in the eyes of Tehran a Terrorist Organization - as well as with other enemies of Tehran.

    It was in fact the Norwegian foreign politics versus Iran in the thirty odd years preceding 2000 that created the ground-work for a future conflict between the two sides, in 2003. Read my interview from the Foreign Ministry Tehran with Ambassador Ali Ahani who confirms that this was the case: "Norway was lagging behind compared to other European countries."

TEHERAN: NORWAY DID NOT HAVE A GOOD STANDING

    But, unfortunately the situation between the two sides where such between 2000 (when Statoil entered Tehran) and in 2002 (when I spoke to Ambassador Ali Ahani and Ambassador Hossein Adeli in the Foreign Ministry in Tehran) that Norway in reality did not have a particularly good standing there.

    This somber reality  had made it somewhat problematic for Statoil. Therefore, it became tempting for Olav Fjell and his entourage to make a short-cut to the son of President Hashemi Rafsanjani and to use unconventional and criminal methods to try to secure work for Statoil at the National Iranian Oil Company NIOC. Statoil was now flying blind, and as we shall witness an implotion of dimentions was not far away in time.

THE CAPTAIN DERAILED THE PROJECT BEFORE START

    At the helm of Norways flagship stood Statoil's canonized Saint Olav Fjell, a man with semingly supernatural capability to survive in his position as CEO supported by an almost blindfolded Statoil-board. After having brought Statoils name down in the gutter and tainted Norway's flagship and reputation for the world to admire, this semingly untouchable man walked straight into  a new and high-paid job soon thereafter.

    It was his responsibility to implement Statoil's Iran strategy - his strategy - and to see it through. But, he did not understand that he had in fact already derailed the entire Statoil-goes-to-Iran operation. With no ethical and empathical bearings, CEO Olav Fjell continued the doomed and misguided plan like a drunk captain onboard a sinking ship. Where was his helpers? Ore my be they were all drunk?

OLAV FJELL: NOT A SINGLE WORD OF CRITICISM

Off course, Fjell should have known, because it was his duty to know and to understand. That is why he had a very high salary; but he didn't. In the meantime bribe-money was now flowing out of Statoil like water over the Niagara Falls! Mr. Saint Olav did not mind. After all it was not his money, but the taxpayers!

    In the following years not a word of criticism was raised against him. In the papers of Statoil's law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in Washington and New York not a single letter was mentioned regarding Olav Fjell. In fact, he was nowhere to be found.

    Statoil's new clearing boy Helge Lund signed the court paper for Statoil. And at that time Mr. Olav "untouchable" Fjell was far away over the shimmering horizon. However, the full and complete truth would have revealed the full and complete responsibility. But, they were not interested in the truth from the Norwegian side! Only to get off the hook of the US Justice Department and to close the case as quickly as possible so the dust could settle once and for all.   

    In the meantime, among the ruling elite of Norway, Mr Olav "untouchable" Fjell was regarded as a near folk hero and could chose any high-ranking position he wished for; all door were opened up to him. He had after all been pardoned by the State, sanitized as it were and made trustworthy again.

MULTIPLE HUMAN ERRORS AS SYSTEM COLLAPSES

    It is not one thing alone that triggers an accident, but the sum of many factors. This can be done with technical equipment as well as with a company or a state apparatus. System collapse is a good term when an electrical network - power grid - fails, but the term can just as well be used about Norway's entry into Iran where Norway's flagship Statoil was responsible for a failure of dimensions. The media isolated this incident as an economic affair - a corruption case.

 A DOWNWARD DEFLECTION AND A NEGATIVE TREND

    The truth is probably more that there were many other and different factors that were not of an economic nature that helped to trigger the catastrophe (downward deflection) These factors were such that a breakdown in the diplomatic relations between the two countries could only happen when these factors were present.

    Isolating the case as a purely financial matter will at the same time prevent insight into the other underlying causes. Therefore, it can be said that the media largely refrained from tackling these underlying causes, and in that way played along with the scapegoat Statoil, it's CEO Olav Fjell, as well as with the Norwegian Power Apparatus.

OBJECTIVE #1: TO PREVENT ACCESS TO THE TRUTH

    The case of Norway and Statoil in Iran did not happen as a sudden bang but came as a result of a bunch of assumptions that had to be present over time.

    It was therefore imperative on the part of the power apparatus (the State, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, INTSOK and industry) to prevent access to any context in something that was of a far more serious nature than Statoil's role in isolation.

OBJECTIVE #2: THREATS AND HARASSMENTS

    The full and complete truth would have revealed the full and complete responsibility. And they were not interested in that from the Norwegian side.  It therefore became imperative to isolate the Editor-in-Chief Mr. Harald Dahle-Sladek with ice cold harassment and threats. Access was undesirable, and pressure was applied on him from every angle over twenty years. The Norwegian power apparatus was a closed circuit. So, they believed! 

A comment from the Editor-in-Chief

Petrofilm.com located in Oslo has in its possession several hundred times more material on Norway-Iran relations than is documented here. This includes E mails, letters, and writings. Some of that material is in nature revealing and unpleasant.

WORKING FIVE YEARS IN TEHERAN

AND IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

Vision of Iran Dialogue Film by Harald Dahle-Sladek (short version)

 CLICK AND PLAY VIDEO

Working card in Iran for the Editor-in-Chief Harald Dahle-Sladek

SEAL OF THE FOREIGN MINISTRY

THE FOREIGN MINISTRY TEHERAN

NORWAY-IRAN RELATIONS REVEALED



 AMBASSADOR ALI AHANI

NORWAY WAS ONE OF THE LAST COUNTRIES IN EUROPE  TO ESTABLISH GOOD AND SUSTAINABLE TIES WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

     It so happened, that during my dialogue with Dr. Ahani, the tendon curtain between Norway and Iran suddenly went up. I did not ask for it to happen. Dr. Ahani freely and unrestrained opened up the entire relationship between the two countries, which to put it mildly, was a basket full of rotten eggs. Here is a short version of what Dr. Ahani told me in that meeting in the Foreign Ministry in Tehran on April 7, 2002.

    Ambassador to Europe and America, the present Ambassador to Paris, the sencond time, His Excellency Ali Ahani and Harald Dahle-Sladek in Dr. Ahani's office in the Foreign Ministry Tehran, April 2002. Dr. Ahani left, with Harald Dahle-Sladek, right in Ahani's office.

Picture below from the video during the interview. From Left, the translator, Ambassador Ali Ahani and Editor-in-Chief Harald Dahle-Sladek. (C)2002 Harald Dahle Oslo.

Too much, Too late, Too dumb!

In 2000 Norway finally entered the Islamic Republic of Iran. Then, the Foreign Ministry in Tehran had waited for thirty years and longer wondering why Norway with its specialized deep-water technologies had not come and helped Iran to build the South Pars project as well as other onshore and offshore  projects.

    When I arrived the Foreign Department in Tehran in April 2002 the mood was somber, to say the least. Ambassador Ali Ahani was irritated. The Norwegian Foreign Department had for thirty years played on "both sides of the street" cultivating contacts with opposition groups to Iran, like the Mujahidin Kalk MEK. The attitude from the Norwegians had been cordial, but stiff and had not reflected the greatness in the Iranian culture and its people. Tehran was very hurt.

Dahle: -With regards to Norway and Iran relations Ambassador Ahani, I notice some slight irritation on your part, why is that?

Ali-Ahani: -In fact, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Norway have many opportunities. In addition to the economic and industrial cooperation we have oil and gas. I would like to emphasize the importance for us to finalize the oil and gas projects in the South along the Persian Gulf, as well as in the Caspian Sea. Norway and Iran are two important oil producing countries and can cooperate and coordination in the world oil market and stabilize oil prices, which would be in the interest of both oil producers and oil consumers.

Dahle: -You mentioned that the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Pettersen's visit to Tehran was a kind of watershed. Could you please explain that?

Ali-Ahani: In fact, in the past years, our relations lacked the sufficient momentum to further expand our relations. And in fact, compared to other countries in Europe, our relations with Norway were lagging behind. The visit of your Foreign Minister to Tehran show the firm determination of your country for the expansion of the relations with Iran. And certainly, there is such a political will and enthusiasm on the part of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran!

Dahle: -Thank you Dr. Ahani.



 THE ROLE OF PETROFILM

IN THE PERSIAN GULF

CLICK PICTURE PLAY VIDEO

PC2000 shooting seismic at Hendijan North of the Persian Gulf

Kish Island

Kish Free Trade Island Iran. Iran's Economic Zone,  March 2000 Harald Dahle left with representatives of Iranian Industries at the University of Kish for  a large Exhibition.

HARALD DAHLE'S "VISION OF IRAN" DIALOGUE FILMS

    I created Dialogue and Common ground with the People of Iran over five years, and that became a huge problem for the official Norway. They saw it as an act of treason and started a war of harassment and badmouthing. However, looking at their results it was then that I learned the hard way how mediocre, narrow minded and unprofessional the Norwegians were.

    With regards to Iran I came in from the side through a three-national industrial project between Norway, the Islamic Republic of Iran and People's Republic of China. The objective was to map the entire coast of Iran from North of the Persian Gulf (at Hendijan) to the Oman Sea (near the border of Pakistan) with six seismic vessels over three years. The name of the project was Persian Carpet 2000, or PC2000 for short.

    I first had relations building with the eleven Iranians who came to Oslo for the project in November 1997, Later I documented the entire project from day one in January 1998 and sent reports back to Oslo from Iran and Dubai.

    In 2001 I suggested to the Norwegian company which had contracts with Iran, that it could be greatly beneficial to have a round of dialogue talks in Tehran and listen to what they had to say there. I was of the opinion that without doing that, the project would fly blind, because there were so many unknown factors that we did not know about at the time. This strategy proved to be very advantageous to both sides.

    I presented my idea to the Deputy Head of the Iranian Diplomatic Mission in Oslo, His Excellency Rezvani, who presented it to Ambassador Noghrehkar Shirazi. I wanted to make a round of filmed interviews with the leaders of Iran under the umbrella "Vision of Iran". Ten days later they OK'd the project and all doors in Iran was opened up to me.

    Actually, I started in Dubai to prepare myself for this job, and then moved to the Iranian Kish Island some forty minutes by Kish Air from Dubai. There I visited the French oil compnay TOTAL and attended two seminars and exhibitions at the University of Kish.

    All the time I worked on a platform of Empathy, Respect and Dignity.

I was not in the Diplomatic business but created Dialogue and Common ground  with respect for the People of Iran and their outstanding Culture. That was my platform from which I had talks in Tehran and elsewhere. On May 19 2002 I completed the Vision of Iran dialogue talks in Tehran and flew back to Dubai. I left Dubai for Oslo one month later. In May 2003 I returnet to Teheran for the last time.

    My simple and honest idea became a huge burden to the official Norway, in such a disasterous way that high-level Iranian dignitaries became uneasy and shook teir heads in dismay. 

    Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs Dr. Hossein Adeli in the Foreign Ministry in Teheran expressed gratitude for my work and told me, "When Harald Finnvik from Statoil Teheran visits me, I speak highly about the work that you do. Dr. Adeli was a great support to me in another vice tense situation.

STATOIL WAS READY TO THROW IN THE TOWEL AND GIVE IN

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Sullivan & Cromwell  LLP

1701 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Washington/125 Broad Street New York N.Y

         WIERSHOLM  AS              SULLIVAN & CROMWELL LLP

          Anders Chr. Ryssdal           Margaret K. Pfeiffer           Samuel W. Seymour



    On August 20, 2004 at noon, a meeting was held in Oslo at the distin-guished Law firm WIERSHOLM where Harald Dahle-Sladek was present. He was asked by Senior Partner Anders Ryssdal to attend because Dahle, according to Ryssdal "knew much about Iran." Dahle arrived in Iran early January 1998, eighteen months before Norway entered the country in early 2000.

    At the time of the Wiersholm meeting Harald Dahle had already worked seven years on Iran. The same year in 2004, Dahle gave his works on Iran to the Library of the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. Harald Dahle also had filmed interviews with the upper crust of the Iranian establishment, from the Presidents office to the Foreign Ministry and various organizations and companies.

    Through the filmed interviews that Harald Dahle had made in Tehran the lawyers Margaret K. Pfeiffer from the Washington Office and Samuel W. Seymour from the New York Office could both watch and hear directly from dignitaries in Tehran. To bring out high-level talks from Tehran which Dahle did was in itself unique.

Harald Dahle talks to Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi

Meeting at Law firm Wiersholm, Oslo

    During the meeting on August 20. 2004, Margareth K. Pfeiffer asked Harald Dahle to join Sulivan & Cromwell LLP for the STATOIL defence and get paid. He answered politely that he would have to think that proposal over. Both US lawyers were impressed by the material Harald Dahle had brought to the meeting.

     From law firm Wiersholm attended Anders Rysdal and Stefan Jervel. From STATOIL's Juridical Department came Odd Sollesnes; Head of Statoils Juridical Department Jacob S Middelton refrained. From Sullivan & Cromwel attended Margaret K Pfeiffer and Samuel W Seymour. Harald Dahle from Petrofilm attended.

The National Iranian Oil Company NIOC, May 27, 2003

FINAL METING ON MINISTER LEVEL IN TEHRAN 

Right side Iran, from right to left: Chief of Protocol, female speaker, Minister of Oil Zanganeh, Ambassador to Oslo Noghrehkar Shirazi with glasses. Left side Norway, number seven with glasses Minister of Energy and Oil Einar Steensnes. (C)2003 Harald Dahle-Sladek 

                                               Seal of the National Iranian Oil Company

The National Iranian Oil Company NIOC, Tehran

15th Executive Floor, May 19, 2002. Deputy Minister of Oil and President of the National Iranian Oil Company NIOC, His Excellency Mehdi Mirmoezi, right, with Editor-in-Chief Harald Dahle-Sladek from Oslo, left after a one hour filmed interview. Mirmoezi, "We are very satisfied with the works done by Statoil here in Iran." Statoil's betrayal of Ministry of Oil and NIOC did not happen from Tehran, but from Oslo and Stavanger. On July 19, 2006 at 8PM I called Director Arne Eriksen in Statoil from Oslo. He was in Tehran in a Statoil meeting and sounded worried. I said to him that I was willing to negotiate for Statoil. He was surprices, but interested. He admitted that the situation was very problematic. Later at a meeting in Oslo he said,

"As you can see, I am very frustrated. The Iranians are polite towards us (in Tehran), but we have a distinct impression of being kept on the "outside" of things...and it is a question for how long this can go on before we have to pull out altogether."

THE BEGINNING OF THE END

    Tehran May 2003: Minister for Energy and Oil His Excellency Einar Steensnes, Norway (left) and Minister of Oil, His Excellency Namdahr Zangeneh, Iran, on their way from the plenum meeting Norway-Iran towards a more private setting on the 15th Executive Floor at the Headquarter of the National Iranian Oil Company NIOC, Tehran. Behind Steensnes walks Zangenehs body guard Mr Amiri, and behind him Tehran's Ambassador to Oslo, His Excelleny Noghrehkar Shirazi. Photo by Harald Dahle.

Ambassador to Oslo, His Excellency Noghrehkar Shirazi is seen here leaving the National Iranian Oil Company NIOC Headquarter in Tehran on May 27, 2003, after the completion of the last meeting on Minister level between Norway and Iran. Photo: (C)2003 Harald Dahle-Sladek Petrofilm

  THE LAST SUPPER

Tehran May 2003 National Iranian Oil Company. The last meeting between Iran (left) and Norway (right) on Minister level, before Norway was kicked out. Photo (C) 2003 Harald Dahle-Sladek.

  Norway as a Non-Piety State

By the Editor-in-Chief

The decline of Spirituality in the West in general, the weakening and the right-out abolishment of the Christian faith in many places today, and the materialization and dehumanization process reflected in the general coldness between people, gives reason for great concern.       

Norway's King Haakon IV, "What happened to spirituality in Norway?"

In the Norwegian society of today, Man is undoubtedly being reduced to the weight of his own body. The newspapers write about losing and gaining weight every, single day. "It's all about meat, meat and more meat," says Harald Dahle, "and nothing about Man as a Spiritual being in God. In their educations Norwegians learn nothing about Spirituality, but every-thing about fiscal policies and fancy theories." He reflects on the Norwegian's Laissez-faire type mantra "to Enjoy.“ With the full blessing and encouragement of an authoritative and non-spiritual State, off course! You know, the Norwegians does not really have anything of spiritual value, and this is why they so desperately try the become what they are not and can never be, canonized.

The decline of Spirituality in the West in general, the weakening and the right out abolishment of the Christian faith in many places today, and the materialization and dehumanization process reflected in the general coldness between people, gives reason for great concern; in Norway, however, this is "business as usual", a stroke of death before the curtain fall. Before we as less civilized and empathic people criticize religion and spirituality in the Islamic Republic of Iran today one should first explain and understand the collapse of Christianity as a main factor in the western societies of today. In the Age of conspicuous consumption, oil and gas, sexual "freedom" and decline of conservative values the Norwegian society is identified with an overwhelming absence of piety in combination with a cold, disdained and superfluous inter-human relations almost devoid of human dignity. Just as it was in the last days before the fall of the decadent, Roman Empire!

On the streets of Oslo, the Norwegians bow their small and worried heads down towards their large, active-matrix organic light-emitting diode screens on their cell phones. And that they do all day! And it is the only time ever when the Norwegians bow their heads! On the walls of the houses in capital Oslo, there are not the minutest sign of spirituality. No, al-fresco paintings of the apostles, the Blessed Virgin Mary, a cross, some ornaments pointing towards a cultural connection with continental Europe. Nothing! The capital is chemically, organically, and spiritually devoid of any sign of a higher and dignified purpose in life. Alongside country roads leading through walleyes and over plains, through small towns and barren fields there is not a single cross, no memory built for an ancient, Christian pilgrim who shall have walked and died there. Not a signpost pointing towards a time when Norway was a country belonging together in spirit with the other Christian nations on the grand mainland of Europe.

THE SLIPPERY SLIDE TO HUMAN CATASTROPHE “In my work dealing with people and dialogue, “says Harald Dahle, “I have come to learn that many of us are not capable if viewing another human being right in front of ourselves with warmth, empathy and humanness. I believe this defect to be one of several primary causes for disharmony, conflict and war!" This phenomena bears special relevance to the people of Norway who actually live on an "island" - with the North Sea on one side and the forest and mountains bordering to Sweden and Russia on the other - and can do as they damn well please without having to take into account the more aristocratic and refined continental European culture further south. "I was in Munich already in 1956 and was raised in Sissach in Canton Basel Land in Switzerland," says Dahle whose father became a Swiss citizen. Harald Dahle, it sets the Norwegian cold and minimalistic Lutheran Church, controlled by the Department of Church -and Culture, in a certain perspective!

"The German philosopher, sociologist and composer Teodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno, left picture, has also had opinions about the "coldness between people phenomena: “Without the chilly and disdained behavior between people, the extermination of the Jews would not have taken place in Germany” he warned. Adorno was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has come to be associated with thinkers such as Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse , for whom the works of Freud, Marx and Hegel were essential to a critique of modern society. He is widely regarded as one of the 20th century's foremost thinkers on aesthetics and philosophy, as well as one of its pre-eminent essayists. As a critic of both fascism and what he called the cultural industry, his writings - such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), Minima Moralia (1951) and Negative Dialectic (1966) - strongly influenced the European New Left.

 «Упадок духовности на Западе в целом, ослабление и полное упразднение христианской веры сегодня во многих местах, а также процесс материализации и дегуманизации, отраженный во всеобщей неприязни между людьми, дают повод для серьезного беспокойства».

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Норвегия как нерелигиозное государство

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В современном норвежском обществе человек, несомненно, сводится к весу своего собственного тела. В газетах каждый день пишут о том, как похудеть и набрать вес. «Все дело в мясе, мясе и еще большем количестве мяса, - говорит Харальд Дале, - а не в Человеке как духовном существе в Боге. В процессе своего образования норвежцы не узнают ничего о духовности, но все о финансовой политике и фантастических теориях». Он размышляет о норвежской мантре типа Laissez-faire «наслаждаться». Конечно, при полном благословении и поддержке авторитетного и недуховного государства! Вы знаете, норвежцы на самом деле не имеют ничего духовного, и это почему они так отчаянно пытаются стать тем, кем они не являются и никогда не могут быть канонизированы.

Упадок духовности на Западе в целом, ослабление и полное упразднение христианской веры сегодня во многих местах, а также процесс материализации и дегуманизации, отражающийся во всеобщей неприязни между людьми, дают повод для серьезного беспокойства; в Норвегии, однако, это «обычный бизнес», смертельный удар перед падением занавеса. Прежде чем мы, как менее цивилизованные и эмпатические люди, будем критиковать религию и духовность в Исламской Республике Иран сегодня, нужно сначала объяснить и понять крах христианства как главный фактор в сегодняшних западных обществах. В эпоху демонстративного потребления, нефти и газа, сексуальной «свободы» и упадка консервативных ценностей норвежское общество отождествляется с подавляющим отсутствием благочестия в сочетании с холодными, пренебрежительными и излишними межчеловеческими отношениями, почти лишенными человеческого достоинства. Как это было в последние дни перед падением упадочной Римской Империи!

На улицах Осло норвежцы склоняют свои маленькие обеспокоенные головы к своим большим экранам на органических светодиодах с активной матрицей на своих сотовых телефонах. И этим они занимаются весь день! И это единственный раз, когда норвежцы склоняют головы! На стенах домов в столице Осло нет ни малейших признаков духовности. Нет, картины на открытом воздухе с изображением апостолов, Пресвятой Девы Марии, креста, некоторых орнаментов, указывающих на культурную связь с континентальной Европой. Ничего! Столица химически, органически и духовно лишена каких-либо признаков высшей и достойной цели в жизни. Рядом с проселочными дорогами, ведущими через долины и равнины, через маленькие городки и бесплодные поля, нет ни единого креста, ни памяти, построенной для древнего христианского паломника, который шел и умер там. Это не указатель, указывающий на то время, когда Норвегия была страной, объединенной духом с другими христианскими народами на большом материковом континенте Европы.

СКОЛЬКО СЛАЙД К ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСКОЙ КАТАСТРОФЕ «В моей работе, посвященной людям и диалогу, - говорит Харальд Дале, - я пришел к выводу, что многие из нас не способны смотреть на другого человека прямо перед собой с теплотой, сочувствием и человечностью. . Я считаю, что этот дефект является одной из нескольких основных причин дисгармонии, конфликтов и войн! »Этот феномен имеет особое значение для людей Норвегии, которые фактически живут на« острове »- с Северным морем с одной стороны и лесом и горами. граничит со Швецией и Россией, с другой стороны, и может делать все, что им угодно, без необходимости принимать во внимание более аристократическую и утонченную континентальную европейскую культуру южнее. «Я был в Мюнхене уже в 1956 году и вырос в Сиссахе в кантоне Базель. Земля в Швейцарии », - говорит Дале, чей отец стал гражданином Швейцарии. Харальд Дале, это ставит норвежскую холодную и минималистичную лютеранскую церковь, контролируемую Департаментом церкви и культуры, в определенную перспективу!» Немецкий философ, социолог и композитор Теодор Людвиг Визенгрунд Адорно, фото слева, также высказал свое мнение о «феномене холода между людьми»: «Без холодного и презрительного поведения между людьми, истребление евреев. не произошло бы в Германии », - предупредил он. Адорно был одним из ведущих представителей Франкфуртской школы критической теории, чьи работы стали ассоциироваться с такими мыслителями, как Эрнст Блох, Вальтер Беньямин, Макс Хоркхаймер и Герберт Маркузе, для которых работы Фрейда, Маркса и Гегеля были важны для жизни. критика современного общества. Он широко известен как один из выдающихся мыслителей 20-го века в области эстетики и философии, а также как один из выдающихся эссеистов. Как критик как фашизма, так и того, что он называл культурной индустрией, его произведения, такие как «Диалектика просвещения» (1947), «Минимальная мораль» (1951)

«Негативная диалектика» (1966), оказали сильное влияние на европейских новых левых.

“總體而言，西方精神主義的衰落，當今許多地方基督教信仰的弱化和正當消滅，以及人們之間普遍冷漠所反映的物化和非人化過程，引起了人們的極大關注。”

                                                                                                        達勒·斯萊德克

挪威為非宗教國家

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在當今的挪威社會中，人類無疑正在減輕自己的體重。報紙上寫著每天減肥和增重。哈拉爾德·達勒（Harald Dahle）說：“這全都與肉，肉和更多的肉有關，而與人類在神中的精神存在無關。在他們的教育中，挪威人對靈性一無所知，而對財政政策和奇特的理論則一無所知。”他反思了挪威人自由放任的口頭禪“享受”。當然，在權威和非精神國家的全力支持和鼓勵下，挪威當然並沒有什麼精神上的價值，這就是為什麼他們如此拼命地嘗試成為他們不是，永遠不可能成為的經典。

總體而言，西方精神主義的衰落，當今許多地方基督教信仰的弱化和正當消亡，以及人們之間普遍冷漠所反映的物化和非人化過程，引起了人們的極大關注；然而，在挪威，這是“一切照舊”，在大幕降臨之前就death折了。在今天我們不那麼文明和有同情心的人們批評伊朗伊斯蘭共和國的宗教和靈性之前，首先應該解釋和理解基督教的崩潰是當今西方社會的一個主要因素。在顯著的消費，石油和天然氣，性“自由”和保守價值觀下降的時代，挪威社會被認為缺乏虔誠，加上幾乎沒有人類尊嚴的冷淡，卑鄙和多餘的人與人之間的關係。就像在衰敗之前的最後幾天，羅馬帝國一樣！

在奧斯陸的街道上，挪威人低頭而憂慮的頭朝手機上的大型有源矩陣有機發光二極管屏幕鞠躬。而且他們整天都在做！這是有史以​​來唯一的一次挪威人低頭！在首都奧斯陸的房屋牆壁上，沒有最小的靈性跡象。不，是使徒的壁畫，聖母瑪利亞，十字架，一些裝飾品指向與歐洲大陸的文化聯繫。沒有！首都在化學，有機和精神上都沒有任何更高崇高目的的跡象。沿著穿過大眼和平原的鄉間小路，穿過小鎮和貧瘠的土地，沒有一個十字架，也沒有為古老的基督教朝聖者建立的記憶，朝聖者將在那裡死去。這不是路標指向的時代，即挪威是一個精神上與歐洲大陸上其他基督教國家緊密團結的國家。

滑向人類災難的滑坡“在我與人和對話打交道的工作中，” Harald Dahle說道，“我了解到，如果我們以熱情，同情和人性的眼光看待另一個人正站在我們面前，那麼我們中的許多人將無能為力。 。我認為這一缺陷是造成不和諧，衝突和戰爭的幾個主要原因之一！”這種現象與實際上生活在一個“島嶼”上的挪威人民有著特殊的意義，因為挪威的一側是北海，而森林和山脈另一方面與瑞典和俄羅斯接壤-可以做得很好，而不必考慮更南方更貴族和更精緻的歐洲大陸文化。“我1956年就已經在慕尼黑，並在巴塞爾州西薩赫長大瑞士的土地，”達勒（Dahle的父親成為瑞士公民）說。哈拉爾德·達勒（Harald Dahle）在一定角度上設置了由教堂和文化部控制的挪威冷酷而簡約的路德教會！左圖Teodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno也對“人與人之間的現象冷漠”有看法：“沒有人與人之間的冷漠和卑鄙的行為，猶太人的滅絕他警告說。阿多諾（Adorno）是法蘭克福批判理論學院的領導成員，該學院的工作與恩斯特·布洛赫（Ernst Bloch），沃爾特·本傑明（Walter Benjamin），馬克斯·霍克海默（Max Horkheimer）和赫伯特·馬爾庫塞（Herbert Marcuse）等思想家相關，弗洛伊德，馬克思和黑格爾的著作對於對現代社會的批判。他被廣泛認為是20世紀美學和哲學方面最重要的思想家之一，也是其傑出的散文家之一。作為法西斯主義和他所謂的文化產業的批評家