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 never implied that it was.
” I’ve never met an Iranian who wasn’t intelligent, educated, and very civilized.”
and UNtrustworthy in business.
Young Iranians are sick and tired of the Ayatollahs and exposure to the Great Satan will help them Westernize even more.
So so so many flaws in that statement above. First, it ignores what I was talking about, which was the narrow construct of US investment in Iran's oil fields and industry. Those jobs would be IN IRAN, period. Second, you lump Cuba in to this issue, which is so absurd it doesn't require a response. Third, you ignore the fact that if the economy of other countries was better, that fewer of them would want to come here. Fourth, you think every immigrant is taking a job that an American would otherwise have literally one to one - which is a liberal static view of economics - and fifth, your comments about the DC bought and paid for crowd is just not relevant at all to the point I was making. That's just off top of my head.....
I laid out precisely how it was a bad assumption ,and you ignored those points and launched into tangental issues.
I put Iran and Cuba in the same sentence because they’re both countries the administration wants to normalize relations with.
But the immigration danger from Cuba - 90 miles away - is not at all analagous to the immigration issue with Iran - across the world away. Geography matters.
I am not in favor of normalizing relations with Cuba, but I do not accept the premise that doing so would bring more Cubans here. In fact, I think the opposite might happen. EVen so, Cuban immigration is not even a rounding error on the whole stage of illegal immigration, or legal immigration either.
The Official policy of Iran doesn't fit with Apple on homosexual Polices
You “laid out precisely” the details of a “bad assumption” that nobody made but yourself?
Didn’t some communist once say that a capitalist will sell the rope to people who will then use it to hang that very same capitalist?
You don’t follow logic particularly well...you are off on an emotional rant, with non sequitrs and irrelevancies....I did indeed destroy your assumptions.
If you say so.
That’s a lot of liberal bluster there, incidentally.
1979. I had distant family leave with the clothes on their back and kids, abandoning a large house and all their possessions after living their for years as oil ex-pats.
I guess these businessmen would more than happy to sell the iranians some more yellowcake, centrifuges, and missle components too.
This is like pointing out to the person who has a revolver pointed at your face that they have no rounds in their gun, and then offering to sell them some rounds for their revolver, while just standing there and letting them reload with the rounds you just sold them.
Yes, the quest for profits at all costs make people that stupid with greed.
“Capitalism is a wonderful thing - except when it isn’t.”
This isn’t Capitalism. It is Cronyism and Cronyism is a constant symptom that can be seen in all heavily centralized, iron fisted governing class!
>>>”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?”<<<
For your other post in this thread, I agree that Iranians largely are “intelligent and civilized”. But unlike Cubans coming to the USA, “Iranian workers” are not typical; It is the least of the worries.
Iranians, as a rule, are not known to be your typical workers outside Iran, e.g. ‘taxi-drivers’, or ‘waiters’.. Not saying there is none, but more exceptions in U.S. or Europe.
Average family or individual immigration from Iran to the USA significantly happened during the first decade after the Shah’s gov’t was overthrown - 1980s mostly, and early parts of 1990s. Most Iranian immigrants to, either USA or Europe from Iran. had enough cash capital outside Iran to be able to immigrate to invest or setup their own business. That actually worked to the advantage of the U.S. (bringing investment money into the country).
Those who immigrated with minimum cash capital because of having to suddenly leave much behind in Iran, due to the Mullahs’ regime, usually had/have initial support from their relatives outside Iran. In this case, these new immigrants can still get professional jobs because they were/are sufficiently educated.
Then again, the same applies to other countries like Australia. Noteworthy is that Australia has a Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. since 2005. It equally benefits Australian because the U.S. is a much bigger market provided entrants (individual, corporate or commercial) can compete.
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