Iran threat: Attack by West risks all 'Middle East oil'

Via Drudge ^ | 2/3/05

[CT CONSERVATIVE]

In the first such threat, a leading Iranian official raised the prospect of Iranian retaliation against Middle East oil exports. The official said such Gulf Cooperation Council oil states as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia could be threatened.

"An attack on Iran will be tantamount to endangering Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and – in a word – the entire Middle East oil," Iranian Expediency Council secretary Mohsen Rezai said on Tuesday.

[Run Silent Run Deep]

Iran itself will be an oil spot on the globe if they don't shut up.

[trebb]

In other words, the whole Middle East has reason to rein Iran in and to help trash its capabilities if conflict does become inevitable.

[Cyclopean Squid]

They've finally found an argument that doesn't immediately induce derisive laughter (for such statments, search "burning hell," "nightmare," or "crushing response within one second." I wonder if the spike in oil prices isn't due to the harding stance on Iran.

[Slump Tester]

Gas is $2.09 today in Columbus. Why don't we just kick their ass and TAKE it?

[CT CONSERVATIVE]

Normally I'd agree but the young in Iran aren't going to let some old bitter mullahs keep them from harvesting all that oil and loading up on Ipods, Brittany Spears dvds and whatever else turns them on that kind of corruption will win out.

[CaptRon]

I personally have never had any problem with a war for oil. These pigs would not only hurt America but the entire world. When their Volvos stop running I'd imagine even the leftists might jump on board.

[theFIRMbss]

>I personally have never had any problem with a war for oil

The West developed
the fields and built all the wells.
The Arabs then stole

(oops -- nationalized)
everything! The petro-bucks
were the fountainhead

of the radical
Muslim teachings we're fighting
around the globe now.

We might as well just
take back what is ours and deal
with the nuts for good.

[JeffersonRepublic.com]

" Iranian forces are deployed at the head of the channel. Oman and the United Arab Emirates are located on the other side.

Teheran could easily block the Straits of Hormuz and use its missiles to strike tankers and GCC oil facilities"

Blahahahaaha!

If they line up their troops along a channel, it would be a duck shoot. We would have them mopped up fast then Saddam's Red Army (MOAB).

Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com

[Happy2BMe]

MIDDLE EAST OIL PING.

[M. Espinola]

'Strategic bottleneck About 40 percent of the world's crude oil shipments pass through the two-mile wide channel of the Persian Gulf's strategic Straits of Hormuz, at right. Kuwait and Iraq are to the Northwest, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean to the Southeast.'

In addition to energy flow shortfalls caused by 'problems in or near the geostrategic Straits of Hormuz, the other main potential threat from Iran's fanatical mullahs would be if they begin launching missiles in the direction of Saudi Arabia's main oil field .

If the Iranian terrorist enemy were to be successful in setting ablaze some of Arabia's oil well installations, the resulting panic in the energy & stock markets would brutal.

Talk about trader panic, crude oil prices would most likely rocket well past $100 a barrel, depending on the damage and projections on resorting production. The leading stock indexes would suffer on the bearish side in a pandemonium driven sell, based on pure investor fear.

Let's hope the current Iranian dictatorship can be removed quickly, avoiding major destruction to either Iran's oil infrastructure, due to internal sabotage, as well as preventing Iran's Islamic military from targeting crude oil fields in other Gulf area oil producing states as a way to inflict economic harm to the West's interconnected, oil based, global economy.

[F14 Pilot]

bump!

[Happy2BMe]

The eyes of the world are on the center of the world - Israel.

The world cries out "Peace - Peace!" - but there is no peace.