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Sunday Jul 19, 2009
Rosner's Domain: Iran's card against sanctions? ChinaPosted by SHMUEL ROSNER
Comments: 15      Follow Rosner's Domain on Twitter!!! Iran may have an ace in the hole as Western governments weigh sanctions
in response to the often violent crackdown on opposition demonstrators.
The card Tehran is likely to play? China. Time Magazine reports: Iran's ties with China, which have steadily grown over the past decade, have accelerated rapidly in the past 18 months. In December 2007, the Chinese oil giant Sinopec Group signed a $70 billion deal to begin drilling in Iran's Yadavaran field, which has estimated reserves of about 17 billion bbl. In January of this year, China's biggest energy producer, CNPC, agreed to develop a medium-size oil field called North Azadegan - a deal worth about $2 billion. And last month, while demonstrators were fighting pitched battles with paramilitaries on Tehran's streets, Iranian oil officials flew to Beijing to negotiate a $5 billion deal with CNPC for the newest phase of Iran's huge South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf. Pummeled by the drop in world oil prices from $147 per bbl. last July to about $64 per bbl. this week, "Iranians are feeling more and more of an acute need for capital," Downs says.
1 | GOLDEN NUGGET Australia, Sunday Jul 19, 2009
THE QUESTION IS ACADEMIC.....there will BE NO SACTIONS...because HUSSIEN O will win over IRAN with his irresistable charm......not to mention the sheer genius of BIDEN......not to mention the overwhelming allure of HILARY !! Just like in the Fairy Tale endings they will all live HAPPILY EVER
AFTER...Thats the stuff AMERICAN DREAMS are made of ...You Bet Your Sweet Bippy....Ask the
"American" posters here who idolise their Muslim President HussienO and believe in his artful
snake oil craft of WORKING MIRACLES...the answer will be a deafening YEA!! YEA!! YEA!!..Now
THATS PATRIOTISM....
2 | Terry - Eilat, Israel, Sunday Jul 19, 2009
Nonsense. Iran's trump card is Obama & the craven cowards of Europe. And, perhaps, Netanyahu should be included in the collection as well. While there are very public demonstrations of Israel preparing for a military strike, it is not persuading me that Netanyahu will pull the trigger. And, if it's not persuading me, it probably is not persuading the Iranians either. It is pointless, basically a cop-out, to place any blame on Russia or China. These are excuses. The real responsibility is with America or by default, Israel. Talking about sanctions is just plain stupid.
3 | Terry - Eilat, Israel, Sunday Jul 19, 2009
Anyway, who cares what Slime Magazine says? Or for that matter, News-speak, the other loser who just wrote the most idiotic dhimmi article on Islam I've seen in a long time. Listening to the mainstream media is a sure-fire way of getting the wrong understanding of what is really happening in the world. George Orwell is now in charge of all mainstream media. All the talk about sanctions are sheer BS - just a distraction from the real issue which is military action. Iran might be testing their first nuclear device within 6 months. They are preparing the test sight. What does that tell you?
4 | Mr. Smith Cyberspace, Sunday Jul 19, 2009
Military perspective the infrastructure that supports a State sponsor of terror, is consider to be not economic infrastructure but terror infrastructure. High priority bombing targets. The world should be aware there is no energy security to be found in Iran, it is a fluid environment. II personally do not care about the EU or the PRC's need or hunger for energy and or energy security. In fact it is preferable that sanctions are not passed and also Israel will not be doing the dirty work for the EU in relation to destruction of the nuclear program to allow Iran to be part of Nabucco.
End Game!
5 | TEXAS, Sunday Jul 19, 2009
not all Americans are drinking the koolaid.A lot of support Israel.I cant say what my govt will do, because it has been coopted by extemely left leaning socialist who do not have our, or Israels best intrest in mind.
6 | Mike Feldman, Canada, Sunday Jul 19, 2009
China's ties with Iran are a no-brainer. First of all China could care less about internal dissent in Iran. It would be hypocrtical if they did. China is hungry for oil, and Iran can supply it. It should be obvious that China will act in its own best interest. However, China places tremendous vallue on its business relationship with the U.S. The only way that the U.S. can gain co-operation from China, is by bringing that relationship into question if China continues to support Iran financially and aid in its development of missles to deliver nuclear warheads. Its not likely that this will happen.
7 | bannister , USA, Sunday Jul 19, 2009
$63dollar Oil
Is Three times what it was before we went to war in Iraq.
8 | Mike Feldman, Canada, Sunday Jul 19, 2009
I see bannister, you clever son of a gun. Oil is $63 a barrel because of the war in Iraq.. The energy needs of China and India are not relevant? Just remember if the international Jewish conspiracy hadn't ruined the world's ecomomies the price of oil would be a lot higher.
9 | American, Sunday Jul 19, 2009
Bottom line is the $$$. Look at China in Africa. If Iran cared about Muslim pain it would be denouncing what is happening in western China. We need to resume talks with Iran and not be sidetracked by Israel pressure which ends up in a no win expensive pre strike. It will be the U.S. that will end up paying for in lives and money -not to mention clean up operations and the dangers itself. We need to keep it to pure business with Iran and skip the olive branch. Iran is good at that. China is bankrolling America so I see limited pressure from that angle.
10 | Mike Feldman, Canada, Sunday Jul 19, 2009
#9 American. So Israel's right to exist is linked to the cost of oil? Time to develop wind power.
11 | bannister , USA, Monday Jul 20, 2009
8 Feldman Supply and demand. Reducing the Supply from Iraq and even demand makes for Higher prices.
What happened to China and India when it was $143 ? Now it's less than half that did half the Chinese die? Or stop driving?
12 | David W. Lincoln, Canada, Monday Jul 20, 2009
As long as the United Nations is hampered by the unwillingness of those who want to drag down those who deserved the glories of rescuing the world from Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo; we will see the nefarious continue to get away with every example of man's inhumanity to man.
It will stop. The question is: how. I surmise that it will be at least two things, in conjunction, to bring about this desired and needed result.
13 | Mike Feldman, Canada, Monday Jul 20, 2009
Bannister. Not surprisingly you're missing the point. When the price of oil was $143.00 a barrel, the world economy was booming, and China and India's oil needs contributed to the price of oil. Now there is a world wide recession and oil is at about $60 a barrel in spite of the demands of India and China. However, there is the greatest over supply of oil in inventories since 1990. Supply and demand. Oil is thought to be dropping to $20 a barrel by year's end. Using your logic, its a good time to not worry about Iran. If oil prices triple, they'll be $60 a barrel.
14 | GOLDEN NUGGET Ausralia, Tuesday Jul 21, 2009
#13 Mike Feldman...BANNISTER?...missing the point??...NAW.. the only thing BANNISTER is MISSING is
his BRAIN...as this Jew hater PIMP for the Muslim World continues to demonstrate on JPost....
15 | GOLDEN NUGGET Ausralia, Tuesday Jul 21, 2009
#13 Mike Feldman...BANNISTER?...missing the point??...NAW.. the only thing BANNISTER is MISSING is
his BRAIN...as this Jew hater PIMP for the Muslim World continues to demonstrate on JPost....
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