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2007-06-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran will resort to 'oil as weapon if needed'

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-06-19 06:31|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 The oil weapon works both ways. Oil is a fungible commodity, so the only way it is a 'weapon' is if Iran holds it off the market altogether (withholding from one customer only to sell to a different one simply means oil which would have been purchased by the second customer from a different seller is available to be purchased by the embargoed one.) I don't believe Iran can afford to stop selling oil. In fact, in a war I suspect one of the first things we'd do is close down their ability to sell oil - can't buy new bullets without cash, and oil's their main source of cash.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-19 07:24|| 2007-06-19 07:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Isn't Iran that country that imports most of it's PETROL?

I'd have thought Bush would be thinking "Make my Millenium" at pathetic threats like these.

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-06-19 07:37|| 2007-06-19 07:37|| Front Page Top

#3 they've already been wielding the weapons of mass lubrication...against their own gov't officials...

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-06-19 08:10|| 2007-06-19 08:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Iran's economy seems to be completely funded by oil to me. How could they stop selling oil, even for a month? I don't think they could.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-06-19 08:30|| 2007-06-19 08:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Ain't much of a weapon when it's burning.

Posted by ed 2007-06-19 09:07|| 2007-06-19 09:07|| Front Page Top

#6 This is where even a broke-dick geezer like me can contribute to winning the War on Terror. Electric vehicles are just around the corner. I'm gonna get me one of the first Phoenix SUVs that roll out the door next year. http://www.phoenixmotorcars.com/models/consumer.html

Posted by Penguin 2007-06-19 12:01|| 2007-06-19 12:01|| Front Page Top

#7 That's ok Iran. We will resort to scouring your infrastructure to bedrock if needed.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-06-19 12:10|| 2007-06-19 12:10|| Front Page Top

#8 They must be starting to sweat if they're talking like this. Number one, if they have to make threats like this it is an indication they think we really might attack. Number two, if they have to threaten to use oil as a weapon it means they don't have a helluva lot of faith in any of their other weapons. It sucks to be Iranian. I think once they've been attacked and blockaded for a while they'll be begging to sell their oil.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-06-19 13:10|| 2007-06-19 13:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Iran can take another country's oil off the market almost as easily as they can take their own off. Look at the map.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-06-19 14:28|| 2007-06-19 14:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh, the tribology!

Posted by eLarson 2007-06-19 15:44|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-06-19 15:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Don't you folks remember? These are the guys with the Greatest-Military-in-the-Known-Universe a.k.a. - The Mighty Mad Mullah Mighty Military Machine™. Why would they need oil as a weapon?

The Mullahs get sillier, while Carter gets stupider.

Yeah, I know Mighty is in there twice.

Posted by Bobby 2007-06-19 16:59|| 2007-06-19 16:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Ain't much of a weapon when it's burning.

Ima likin the way yer thimkin, ed.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-19 17:41|| 2007-06-19 17:41|| Front Page Top

#13 I heard a stat yesterday on talk radio that Iran imports approx 40% of the oil it uses. Maybe that 12th imam dude has some big-ass oil reserve down that well we just don't know about.

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-06-19 21:16|| 2007-06-19 21:16|| Front Page Top

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