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2006-09-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran would 'never' use oil as an economic weapon
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Posted by Fred 2006-09-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Just talking about IT is enough to give the market shivers...Iranian Prez is masterly at jawboning crude higher and higher...
Posted by borgboy 2006-09-14 00:06||   2006-09-14 00:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Who gives a rip? They use their oil profits as a terrorist weapon and that's enough to get them a free ride on the decap machine.
Posted by Zenster 2006-09-14 00:09||   2006-09-14 00:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Oil is 80% of their income anyone who really thought they were going to turn off the taps causing instant collapse of their economy risking revolution. All the while our gas prices go up what say 2bucks tops big deal so for a limited period of time we pay what the EU has been paying since time. All the while the US gets their cuasi belli.

It was a hollow bluff to begin with and now they are saving face Muslim style by coming out contradicting their previous statements while outright pretending the previous were just some exaggeration misunderstanding of the evil WEST.

The only way Iran would go with the oil weapon would be if the rest of OPEC played too then the pain on the West would be crippling.
Posted by C-Low 2006-09-14 00:44||   2006-09-14 00:44|| Front Page Top

#4 I think the Saudis would be plenty happy with oil at, say $120/B, and Iranian production and export shut down while the Mad Mullahs are being over thrown. They'll just never admit it.

Would be worth the economic dislocation to take Iran out of the market.
Posted by Classical_Liberal 2006-09-14 01:17||   2006-09-14 01:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Must be Coppertone sun tone, NOT "SUNBURN" missles
- D *** TREASONOUS FIFTH COLUMNIST SUN.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-09-14 02:26||   2006-09-14 02:26|| Front Page Top

#6 So, they were for it before they were against it? Sounds eerily familiar.
Posted by xbalanke 2006-09-14 11:51||   2006-09-14 11:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Oil is 80% of their income

This, coupled with the fact that the Iranians import most of their gas, sounds rather like a strategic vulnerability. Makes you think that one of the last things the mad mullahs really want is to close the Straits of Hormuz.

As an aside, I propose we rename the Straits of Hormuz to the Straits of Hormel. Goes nicely with the Gulf of Rumsfeld, don't you think?
Posted by SteveS 2006-09-14 14:15||   2006-09-14 14:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Iran can't do any more about the price of gas than Bush.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-09-14 14:33||   2006-09-14 14:33|| Front Page Top

#9 "Iran would 'never' use oil as an economic weapon"

Translation: "Please don't destroy what little refining capacity we have and cut off our gasoline imports, infidel."
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