Iran's Powerful Hardline Cleric Threatens To “Instantly” Create $400 Oil By Seizing Tankers

Stock Talk JournalD ^ | 11-4-2018

[MAGAthon]

Updated 4 Nov: UK Mirror: Couple are TRICKED into helping Iran’s nuclear programme from their terrace home
EXCLUSIVE: All that pensioners Paul Attwater and Iris wanted was some extra cash to pay for a Crawley Town FC season ticket and a few holidays in the sun
By Dan Warburton
But shocked Paul, 65, and Iris, 66, were hauled into court after being accused of helping a rogue state develop weapons of mass destruction...
A judge spared them jail this week after saying they were “very, very naive” and had been deceived by the businessman...

The couple were duped by businessman Alexander George, 76, and were unaware he was using a complex network of companies in the Far East and a Dutch shipping firm to send the parts on to Iran.
Iris said: “We were friends with Alex. He would always be overly friendly and tell us we were like family.”...

George, of Bristol, was found guilty of being knowingly ­concerned in the supply or delivery of controlled goods to an embargoed destination. He will be sentenced next month.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/retirees-tricked-supplying-parts-irans-13529000

[grey_whiskers]

Hey Iran,
Bring it.

[grey_whiskers]

Oh,goodie! Those bearded 9th Century pig fornicators in Tehran are giving us a perfect excuse to bomb them back to the stone age.

Heavens to Murgatroyd, did you just call them figgy-puckers?

[grey_whiskers]

“Ayatollah Ahmad Alamogordo”

*cough* *hack* *choke* CHORTLE *choke* *hack* *cough*

[BipolarBob]

"9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. "
"16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; "
"22and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone."
This sounds like death from above as in missiles and airplanes.

[Vendome]

They are trying to drive up prices with their hollow rhetoric

Besides, they mere batting practice for us

[BipolarBob]

Since we’re the largest producer of oil, that would make us rich.

It actually depends on the cost of production. In Saudi Arabia, it's very cheap.

[vette6387]

“Iran population outnumbers that of Saudi Arabia by a ratio of 5:2. “

That doesn’t really matter when you are talking weaponry. The Mullahs need a Tomahawk enema.

[Ancesthntr]

So, apparently, the Iranians are also interested in having their entire military destroyed in about 5 days.

You guys should he’d what Jim Mattis said, which is that it would be better for you to deal with our State Department than with him.

[luvbach1]

Iranians fought to a stalemate against Saddam. A war against the US and President Trump will not be a stalemate.

[Jmouse007]

Go ahead punk, make my day.

[Billthedrill]

I have to wonder if the Ayatollah has thought this thing through. $400 oil would inconvenience the American public for a time and make the country rich shortly after. But it places Iran in the position of infuriating the Chinese, one of their most valuable customers, or delivering $50 oil to them under contract in a $400 market and hoping they don’t get blamed for what will happen to Chinese manufacturing anyway. I wouldn’t think that a very intelligent thing to do, but what the hell do I know?

[vikingd00d]

>>Iran population outnumbers that of Saudi Arabia by a ratio of 5:2.

That just means that the Saudis would each have to fire 3 rounds and call it a day.

[cpdiii]

Just ahead of U.S. sanctions on Iran set to snap back on Monday targeting primarily the energy, shipbuilding, shipping, and banking sectors, Iran’s most prominent conservative cleric has announced that if oil exports are halted, Saudi tankers will be confiscated and Gulf countries attacked.

This is most amusing.

Virtualy all the oil out of Iran goes out the Persian Gulf via Kharg Island. The Oil is pumped to Kharg Island from many Oilfields in Iran. In one bombing raid Kharg Island would be an inferno. Go to Google Maps and look at all the storage tanks there. The oil pipelines are dependent on pumping stations in the interior of Iran. These are easily taken out. Iran could be made to cease to be an exporter nation in one day. THEY WOULD COLLAPSE ECONOMICALLY and internal revolution would soon follow.

Any tanker docking at an Iranian port would be a legitimate target. No tankers would dock.

Just think about this briefing to pilots. "You will get to attack targets that burn when you hit them. Good hunting boys and do not bring any bombs back."

ps
I lived in Iran as a young boy. There are many good people living there under the yoke of the Mullahs. They are angry and frightened but desperate. This is the recipe for revolution.

[Sequoyah101]

Oh please, please, please do it. I have my popcorn ready and I hate to waste anything.

[Paal Gulli]

They've tried this crap before. It did not end well for the Iranians.

Operation Prime Chance

And now both 160th SOAR and our SpecWarriors are much, much more experienced than in 1987.

[LegendHasIt]

It is SO COOL that Trump has control over large meteors!!!!

(That photo is of Meteor (Barringer) Crater in Arizona. It is not from a Nuke.)

[reg45]

Iran has three times the population of Saudi Arabia. S A could not defeat Iran without help.

[lurk]

The Persians might be able to waylay a couple of tankers, but then there would be a substantial response. The Gulf isn’t the only place to get energy anymore; the Israelis just found a few trillion cubic feet of gas just offshore.

[reg45]

One of the first targets in Iran would be its main only oil refinery.