Halliburton busts Iran Sanctions.

So, my understanding is that there are US sanctions in place to prevent companies investing and operating within Iran.

No matter - just set up an offshore subsiduary, and nominally conduct your Iran operations through that!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3908753.stm

Hurrah for Halliburton, throwing of the shackles of offical US policy through lawyerly sidestepping.

What I'd like to know is:

i) Were these contracts in place during Cheney's tenure?

ii) What has Cheney said about sanctions against Iran?

I think a juxtaposition of these two things could be interesting, especially now the Bush Admin are starting to heat up a little on Iran.