Iran and Libya will not join Iraqi oil embargo: OPEC

AFP | 4/10/02

[kattracks]

VIENNA, April 10 (AFP) - Iran and Libya will not join Iraq in suspending oil exports for 30 days, an Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) source said here Wednesday.

OPEC Secretary General Ali Rodriguez will give a press conference at 1400 GMT here Wednesday, a spokesman added.

"Iran and Libya have said that they will join Iraq only if other Muslim or Arab countries would go along with the boycott decided by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein," the anonymous source said.

"And this is something that is not going to happen," he added.

[maquiladora]

Iran and Libya will not join Iraq in suspending oil exports for 30 days.

As I thought.

[arielb]

awww I thought they sympathized with the palestinian terrorists? of course if they really wanted to help them, they could each cut out a tiny portion of their own countries to give to the palestinians and that would solve the problem

[lavrenti]

They already do. Who do you think bankrolls Hamas?

[lavrenti]

Meant also to say they provide training camps for those yahoos. Equates that tiny bit of country you spoke of.

[cake_crumb]

"As I thought."

Me too. But they DID get a nice boost in the price of crude because of the threat.

[Mixer]

LOL @ Iran

[rdb3]

Oh, well. So much for that. Money talks. BS runs a marathon. So, see ya (Iraq)! And I wouldn't want to be ya!