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| Iran will resort to 'oil as weapon if needed' |
| 2007-06-19 |
 Tehran: Iran will not rule out using oil as a weapon if the United States resorts to military action against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programmme, anIranian oil official said in remarks published on Tuesday. "When the Americans say that military action in regard to the nuclear issue has not been put aside, Iran can also say that it will not put aside oil as a tool," Iran's OPEC governor, Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, told Sharq newspaper. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #13 I heard a stat yesterday on talk radio that Iran imports approx 40% of the oil it uses. Maybe that 12th imam dude has some big-ass oil reserve down that well we just don't know about. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-06-19 21:16 |
| #12 Ain't much of a weapon when it's burning. Ima likin the way yer thimkin, ed. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-06-19 17:41 |
| #11 Don't you folks remember? These are the guys with the Greatest-Military-in-the-Known-Universe a.k.a. - The Mighty Mad Mullah Mighty Military Machine™. Why would they need oil as a weapon? The Mullahs get sillier, while Carter gets stupider. Yeah, I know Mighty is in there twice. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-06-19 16:59 |
| #10 Oh, the tribology! |
| Posted by: eLarson 2007-06-19 15:44 |
| #9 Iran can take another country's oil off the market almost as easily as they can take their own off. Look at the map. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-06-19 14:28 |
| #8 They must be starting to sweat if they're talking like this. Number one, if they have to make threats like this it is an indication they think we really might attack. Number two, if they have to threaten to use oil as a weapon it means they don't have a helluva lot of faith in any of their other weapons. It sucks to be Iranian. I think once they've been attacked and blockaded for a while they'll be begging to sell their oil. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-06-19 13:10 |
| #7 That's ok Iran. We will resort to scouring your infrastructure to bedrock if needed. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-06-19 12:10 |
| #6 This is where even a broke-dick geezer like me can contribute to winning the War on Terror. Electric vehicles are just around the corner. I'm gonna get me one of the first Phoenix SUVs that roll out the door next year. http://www.phoenixmotorcars.com/models/consumer.html |
| Posted by: Penguin 2007-06-19 12:01 |
| #5 Ain't much of a weapon when it's burning. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-06-19 09:07 |
| #4 Iran's economy seems to be completely funded by oil to me. How could they stop selling oil, even for a month? I don't think they could. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-06-19 08:30 |
| #3 they've already been wielding the weapons of mass lubrication...against their own gov't officials... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-06-19 08:10 |
| #2 Isn't Iran that country that imports most of it's PETROL? I'd have thought Bush would be thinking "Make my Millenium" at pathetic threats like these. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-06-19 07:37 |
| #1 The oil weapon works both ways. Oil is a fungible commodity, so the only way it is a 'weapon' is if Iran holds it off the market altogether (withholding from one customer only to sell to a different one simply means oil which would have been purchased by the second customer from a different seller is available to be purchased by the embargoed one.) I don't believe Iran can afford to stop selling oil. In fact, in a war I suspect one of the first things we'd do is close down their ability to sell oil - can't buy new bullets without cash, and oil's their main source of cash. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-06-19 07:24 |