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Time to boycott Iran
Yedioth Internet ^ | 12-16-05 | Guy Bechor

Posted on 12/16/2005 1:51:35 AM PST by M. Espinola

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To: Joe Boucher
"YOu think you can get the E.U to agree to stop Iran from exporting oil? i don't think you get those jackels to agree the sun comes up in the east.\"

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 Iran’s 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 gas exports to China to start in 2009

Iran: Economic Backgrounder

21 posted on 12/16/2005 4:49:24 PM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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To: Publius6961
The price of oil in late 2003 fluctuated between $27 & $33ish a barrel. In less then two years the price of crude soared into the high $60's, actually briefly leaping over $70 a barrel during the hurricane Katrina disaster. The current price is $59.05, still double that of the fourth quarter of 2003.

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?

22 posted on 12/16/2005 8:29:42 PM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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