Posted on 09/16/2019 11:27:36 AM PDT by Starman417
Recently, Saudi oilfields were struck by drones and set ablaze. The disruption of the oil supply is set to have an economic impact:
LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The oil market will rally by $5-10 per barrel when it opens on Monday and may spike to as high as $100 per barrel if Saudi Arabia fails to quickly resume oil supply lost after attacks over the weekend, traders and analysts said.Althought Iran accused the Yamani Hoiulthi rebels, all signs point to Iran as the perpetratorAttacks on two plants at the heart of the kingdom's oil industry on Saturday knocked out more than half of Saudi crude output, or 5% of global supply.
Industry sources have said it may take weeks to bring production fully online.
Below are quotes from market participants, traders and analysts.
First, the technical skill required to accurately hit these targets is significantly beyond the proven capability of the Houthis. And the Saudis — with advanced U.S. support — have a large number of advanced radar and ballistic missile tracking capabilities focused on missiles launched from Yemen. They would have detected at least some of these weapons in flight. But as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo noted on Sunday, there is "no evidence" of a Yemeni launch.How did Iran get this technology?Second, the U.S. and Saudi governments both confidently assess Iranian involvement. A top Saudi official on Monday noted that "all indications are that weapons used in both attacks came from Iran." He added that the Saudis were now investigating "from where they were fired." The United States has also released satellite photos of the damage. Even though the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency's corollary analytical assessment hasn't been released, the satellite photos are clearly compelling. One image from the Abqaiq facility, for example, shows impact strikes at the same specific point on four different silos. That exceptional precision indicates either a ground attack at the site, laser-guided strikes, or the use of drones. The two first options appear to have been ruled out and the Houthis do not have this advanced drone capability. Iran, however, does.
From Barack Obama, who donated the technology and then financed the reproduction.
Back in 2011, Iran captured a US RQ 170 drone.
Iran is pushing the propaganda advantage after showing it captured an intact US stealth drone on a spying mission 140 miles inside Iran.For some reason Obama never chose not to destroy the drone:Hours after Iran state TV displayed the cream-colored American bat-wing RQ-170 "Sentinel" drone – its undercarriage hidden by banners of a US flag, with stars replaced by skulls and marked with anti-US slogans – Iranian officials said the spy craft was proof of enduring US hostility toward Iran.
"Iran will target all US military bases around the world," in case of further violations, warned conservative lawmaker Mohammad Kossari today. Iran's response would be "terrifying."
US officials confirmed with "high confidence" that the drone displayed by Iran is almost certainly the one reported lost last by US forces in Afghanistan last week. It was on an intelligence mission to hunt evidence in Iran of nuclear weapons work.
Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney criticized Obama's decisions on the drone, saying that, after the aircraft went down, the president should have ordered an air strike within Iran: "The right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it. You can do that from the air ... and, in effect, make it impossible for them to benefit from having captured that drone." Instead, "he asked nicely for them to return it, and they aren't going to".[30]He "politely" asked for it back, and Iran laughed at him. Now they had the technology in hand thanks to Obama.
They reverse engineered the drone, smuggling drone part into Iran:
For years, Iran has been successful in smuggling drone parts in spite of international sanctions, and now its smuggling efforts have moved into counter-drone markets. These markets, inclusive of North America, Europe, the Asia-Pacific and Latin America, are expected to reach a value of USD 2.93 billion by 2025. Iran’s neighboring states are also looking to acquire counter-drone capabilities. Turkey has at least three known products on the market, and the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are looking to step in. Due to their geographical proximity to Iran, these countries unwantedly risk operating as transhipment hubs and staging grounds for Iranian front companies and smuggling networks seeking to get their hands-on Western counter-drone technology.This takes real money. Where would Iran get this kind of money?
From Barack Obama.
In early 2016 Obama sent $1.7 billion in cash to Iran and in between at least $29 billion and perhaps up to over $100 billion were freed up. Some of it has been traced directly to funding terrorism.
In 2018, Israel captured one of the drones and declared it a copy of the RQ 170:
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The founders were right to exclude the children of foreigners from being President.
Never forget that ObaMao’s main advisor was the nasty Shiite Marxist Valerie Jarrett.
Kamala Harris’ candidacy is supported by many HERE, so their own preferred ineligible candidates can “win”.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3749544/posts?page=30
And they’ve become haughtily condescending in their support for our domestic enemies.
Don’t waste your time going there. And Kavanaugh waved it in front of a woman.
I should have posted to all.
You don’t need me to tell you this stuff. :-)
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How about you click here instead:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3779117/posts
The fund raising bar is stalled at 94% !! [FReepathon]
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This may be the sparking event the globalists have orchestrated for their plan to void the 2020 US election. Consider how anti-law the democrats are now talking and acting and how the party has quite literally gone off the rails of political reason. Are they committing party suicide or do they know something we don’t? Maybe this sounds tin foilish but something is obviously up and something big may soon be coming our way. Just my observation.
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I agree with you. They have a brazen arrogance that comes from believing the fix is in.
Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney criticized Obama's decisions on the drone, saying that, after the aircraft went down, the president should have ordered an air strike within Iran: "The right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it. You can do that from the air ... and, in effect, make it impossible for them to benefit from having captured that drone." Instead, "he asked nicely for them to return it, and they aren't going to"
Thanks Starman417.
If this one attack by Iran on Saudi Arabia’s oil fields cost $1 billion then WTF?! I don’t think they’ve blown it all on this one act.
10 to 1 this was DGI drones with maybe a pound of C4.
The one part he omits is that the only way that Iran could have gotten ahold of the RQ-170 was will collusion with the Obama Administration. It had to be an inside job because certain specific details had to be known to the Iranians for them in advance to gain possession of the drone.
Only thing that makes any sense.
bfl
The fact that Obongo gave them the tech will not be reported period.
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