Under the NDAA now is the time to seize and shut down Halliburton.Halliburton would now be in violation of the NDAA sanctions provisions, as wellas prior sanctions against Supporting and trading with the Terrorist Iranian Government."President Gerald Ford signed a directive in 1976 offering Tehran the chanceto buy and operate a U.S.-built reprocessing facility for extracting plutoniumfrom nuclear reactor fuel. The deal was for a complete 'nuclear fuelcycle'."[41] At the time, Richard Cheney was the White House Chief ofStaff, and Donald Rumsfeld was the Secretary of Defense. The Fordstrategy paper said the "introduction of nuclear power will both provide for thegrowing needs of Iran's economy and free remaining oil reserves for export orconversion to petrochemicals."