Posted on 05/04/2015 7:54:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Capitalism is a wonderful thing - except when it isn't. Several US businessmen - oil execs for instance - are eagerly waiting for the day when "normalizing" relations with Iran would lead to exploiting the business opportunities offered by the mullahs.
Leaders from the United States’ oil industry are traveling to Iran this week to discuss potential investment opportunities, Iran’s government said.
The delegation of oil company leaders and investors are visiting Iran in anticipation of sanctions being loosened against Tehran, Iran’s state-owned Mehr News Agency reported Monday.
“It is forecast that by the visit of [the] American delegation this week and in the case of lifting sanctions on Iran's oil industry, we will witness involvement of major international American oil and gas companies in Iran in the future," deputy Oil Minister Abbas Sheri-Moghaddam told Mehr.
Mehr did not identify the executives who will be on the trip or the companies they will represent.
Current sanctions prevent any direct trading between the U.S. and Iranian oil industries.Leaders from the U.S. and five other countries reached a tentative deal a month ago with Iran to restrict nuclear work in Iran, which could lead to some sanctions being lifted on Iran.
Negotiators are aiming to reach a final deal on June 30. Congress is considering legislation that could allow lawmakers to review and vote to disapprove the deal.
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i”m not sure this is such a bad thing.....
After the ChiComs, what difference does it make?
That’s great! We all know corporations would never do anything detrimental to the Unite States. They’ll make a fortune up until the day this @#@#$ing charade ends and Iran either nukes us or more likely gives one to ISIS to detonate in the US.
I know it is not easy to transport and detonate a nuke. But the determination is there, believe me.
BTW, it was just learned again that inspectors are not getting near the access the nee in iran.
Of course not. Enriching our enemies always discourages war, doesn’t it?
“Iran’s state-owned Mehr News Agency reported Monday”
Let’s wait & find out if this is true
They are selling them the rope to hang us with.
There's really no excuse for aiding the enemies of mankind. Calling it capitalism doesn't make a difference.
They are good and infiltrated. Sad to say, Nixon made it way easier.— W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist, “Current Communist Goals”
- Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
“I know it is not easy to transport and detonate a nuke.”
Doesn’t matter it will fit on a cargo ship no matter how primitive.
Especially when it is not “capitalism”, and most especially when it’s not the free market (which the word “capitalism” is a pejorative for, popularized by Marx).
I’ve never met an Iranian who wasn’t intelligent, educated, and very civilized. A lot of them shouldn’t have much trouble taking jobs from skilled US workers.
Speaking of Hillary, it just goes to show you that money trumps everything. The country doesn’t matter as long as you can fatten your personal and your company’s bankrolls, and you can roll a wad of Benjamins into your money clips.
Whatever the case, money is not my god and capitalism is not my religion.
well you over reacted......I never said I was sure it was a good thing either.
BUT you made some really bad assumptions - that this would “enrich” our enemies (and thus more than ourselves). You also make an assumption that all Iranian businessmen are pro Iran and anti American. Also false. THEN you forget to factor in that as a fungible commodity, all energy is a good thing if US interests control it. Oh, let’s not forget, what we don’t do in biz with Iran, Russia will.
Maybe think a bit more deeply.
I don’t see this as having anything to do with current jobs in the US, or Iranian workers coming over here.
Are these the same guys that have been bribing the Clintons to eliminate the restrictions?
You don’t think that normalizing relations with Iran and Cuba will be a terrific source for qualified, intelligent, ambitious workers who will undermine the US worker? You must trust the DC bought and paid for crowd to care about US citizens.
How is that a bad assumption? It’s based on history and current events.
It is also a bad tactic to put words in my mouth/presume I assume anything about Iranian businessmen. But it would be safe to say, since you yourself broach the topic, that they would not be in business if they were not obeying the state’s goal of undermining the Great Satan.
Russia would do business with Iran no matter what we do. Such as missiles and other components of war. So long as we remain too weak in the arena of foreign policy to stop them. Canard.
Iran will take the money and technology then boot the Evil Nonbelievers out
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