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To: thackney

I think you are missing a larger point. The conflict in the Middle East has evolved into a widening Shiite/Sunni rift. A pipeline from Iran to Syria via Iraq would represent a pipeline beyond the control of Sunni energy powers, and to the Shia that matter more than raw economics. Assad is a Shia Alawite and that minority rules Syria.


28 posted on 09/06/2013 9:38:29 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

All of the discussion has been a pipeline from Qatar, not Iran.

I don’t think we will see a pipeline from Iran going through Iraq in our lifetime.


34 posted on 09/06/2013 10:12:20 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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