Posted on 12/16/2005 1:51:35 AM PST by M. Espinola
When it comes to the E.U. crowd all we have to recall is Checkoslovakia & Poland, in terms of major European states uniting and confronting evil head on.
Considering that in mid-2003 Iran switched its oil payments from E.U. customers to the Euro, dumping the U.S. Dollar, the sooner the Mullah dictatorship is toppled the better.
Currently, America and Israel will be virtually alone in forcefully confronting the Iranian 'nuclear' menace, unless Iran is clearly implicated in an unthinkable act of terrorism on E.U. soil.
Below Iranian economic data via The Economist:
"Oil earnings dominate Irans external trade, generating some 80% of revenue, although non-oil exports have begun to rise. High oil prices during 2000-04 have allowed Iran to record substantial trade surpluses."
Major exports 2003/04
% of total | Major imports 2001/02 | % of total | |
Oil&gas | 80.0 | Machinery&transportation tools | 42.9 |
Petrochemicals | 4.1 | Chemical products | 13.5 |
Pistachios | 2.4 | Food&live animals | 11.9 |
Leading markets 2004 | % of total | Leading suppliers 2004 | % of total |
Japan | 18.5 | Germany | 12.3 |
China | 9.6 | France | 8.4 |
Italy | 6.0 | China | 7.5 |
Iran's Muslim tyrants are rolling in massive energy profits, shelling out bundles of cash for it's nuclear weapons programme, coupled with bankrolling & arming to the teeth every Shi'ite related Islamic terrorist group out there, such as Hamas & Hizballah.
What course of action would you suggest to initiate the downfall of the current Iranian jihad pushing régime, considering exportable energy products, crude oil & natural gas, are Tehran's only main source of extremely profitable national revenue, which in part is rolled over into jihadic terrorism in Iraq, (with cohort Damascus) and worldwide?
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