Re: @@ JEW tries to dismiss the Iranian oil exchange's threat to the U.S. @@


Arash wrote:
> Christian Science Monitor
> August 30, 2005


- while Iran presses to build a major pipeline through Pakistan to
> India. "Iran is definitely looking East, rather than West", says Jean-François
> Seznec, "and that will matter".
>

Is there a political divide between Iran and its neighbours?
Most of the Islamic neighbours of Iran to the west trade with west and
are more and more in the "western sphere of influence"???

Turkey is nato and eu wannabe.
Azerbaijani pipeline is routed through Turkey and not Iran.
Iraq houses US troops
Arab states in the Persian gulf also have US troops on their soil

I was told that although the culture in these countries is similar to
Irans they are not that friendly to the Iranian state.


> Yet even as remote as the Iranian threat may be, others note that past attempts to
> create new markets have not been greeted warmly. None other than Saddam decided to
> sell oil only in contracts dominated in euros - in the months before he was ousted by
> a U.S.-led military invasion.

>
> http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0830/p03s01-wome.html

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