This is Both Good & Bad News
Just wait till these Ayatollah mofos get all nuked up. Then they'll really be able to say F U.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492279/posts
Yet another reason for India and the US to get closer. If I were Putin I would start rethinking any future deals with the Mullahs because they might not be around that much longer.
There's other countries in the Gulf to get methane from. Arab governments often negotiate quietly, and no way they want Iran to have the bomb. A possibility is they offered to replace Iran for support against Iran:
Example?
September 26-
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050926/3/27xm6.html
"India to import Qatari LNG for Dabhol power plant
NEW DELHI, Sept 26 (Reuters) - India plans to import one million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) a year from Qatar to restart the mothballed Dabhol power plant, an oil ministry official told Reuters on Monday.
"From the middle of 2006, we will import one million tonnes a year for Dabhol," said the official, who did not want to be named.
The plant, built by Enron Corp., has been shut since May 2001 after a billing dispute with its sole customer -- the state-run electricity board of the western state of Maharashtra.
Officials say they hope to restart the plant next year as all legal disputes have been resolved. "
India has no real need to be concerned. Long before 2009, the mullah's nuclear ambitions will have forced our hand, and there will be a new government running Iran. With any luck, enough of Irans infrastructure will have been rebuilt by then to resume this gas deal.
Well shouldn't they also punish those who also didn't take their side and cast abstentions? So much for taking a stand.