How John Bolton has helped Iran's fanatic Seyyeds

John Bolton is making sense | FP Passport

Over the past two or three years, we have been treated to one sensational threat after another about the likelihood of imminent war with Iran. All of these alarms and predictions have one thing in common: they never happened. Perhaps it is time for us to join Bolton in looking at the real indicators. When Bolton quits writing his jeremiads or when he begins to express satisfaction with the direction of U.S. policy, that is when we should start to get worried.

So are we seriously seening a shift in US policy, or is it that the US knows, that the Seyyeds are never going to change. We know that this flavour of Seyyeds, namely the IRGC, is very bitter, compared to the ones who run the foreign ministry. Ironically these Seyyed neocons are not too different from their US counterparts. But it took the likes of Bolton and of Cheney, to get the poodles of Jannati and Mesbah-Yazdi to come to power. Once these titans of the Seyyed Empire were in, and failed to move from their policy enrichment for the sake of their Mahdi cause, then the Seyyeds reform minded foreign ministry, gave up any form of sweeteners to the US. The die-hards had won the battle, and spear-headed a huge propaganda campaign to move towards China and Russia even more, as the US and UN sanctions forced EU corporations to quit. Just look at how the Russian Gasprom is so eager to pick up where Total of France leaves behind. So it is becoming quite clear, that the Seyyeds are going to be labelled as Chinese/Russian poodles. So it is up to the new US administration to deal with the Chinese and Russians with the appropriate threats to sort out the Seyyeds.

How crazy can the Israeli media get?

We only get one strike | Op-Ed Contributors | Jerusalem Post

Iran has the same virus inherent in every totalitarian power - to gain imperial dominion. Totalitarian Iran wants to recreate its empire east of the Mediterranean. The leaders of modern Iran, long before the present Islamic regime, toyed with the idea of reviving the empire of Cyrus and Darius.

You sometimes think these Israelis are mad. After all if it was not for Cyrus, where would they be now?

Oil vultures over Iran

Arab Monitor - Sito di informazione dal mondo arabo:

"The Iranian-Russian joint venture, if implemented, would help Gazprom to boost its supplies in order to meet its delivery obligations, whereas it would effectively undermine Western powers' and Israel's concerted efforts to isolate Iran. Therefore, Kommersant reports, analysts are still cautious about the prospects of cooperating with Iran. On the other hand, Kommersant argues, if Russia renounces cooperation with Iran alligning itself with Western powers and Israel, it will cede the rich Iranian oil and gas market to Japan, India and China."

Like vultures swirling over a rotten corpse, the industrialised countries (the West and Japan), are bickering over what is under the land of Iran, with the up and coming nations (India, Russia, China). They don't give a damn about the people of Iran, who are trying to make a living on the land of Iran.

Iran's Seyyeds seek closer ties with China, support for nuclear programme

Iran seeks closer ties with China, support for nuclear programme:

"Tehran expects China, as well as all its friendly countries, to express support for the country's nuclear programme and its close cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, Hosseini said."

This guy is basically begging the Chinese not to switch sides. Now it is up to the US and EU to sort out China and to a lesser extent Russia. Chinese should be brought to the UN security council for its ambivalence towards any regime's human rights. It is not just in Iran, it is in Sudan, Zimbabwe, Venezuela; which are all the trouble spots. Fact is that Wal-Mart is big in China and no one asks Wal-Mart "what are you doing there, using cheap labour, and energy that is actually from Iran. Maybe the Saudis could threaten to cut off the energy supplies, to get the Chinese away from the Seyyeds.

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False Jitters Over Iran, and Israel

Jim Hoagland - Jitters Over Iran - washingtonpost.com:

"So you might want to consider battening down the hatches and getting the bomb shelters ready, just in case."

Actually Jim, look around this week-end, and you will notice that it is really quiet. No warmongering at all.

Why? Well they got the price of oil back up. So none of the Seyyed or Republican Peak Oil advocates is worried. But wait, once the price drops again, and their war of words will begin. We will have the Israelis firing missiles over the Mediterranean, and the Seyyed's IRGC firing more across the Straits of Hormuz, for target practice.

That will get the Arabs to go ape shit and start buying the futures contracts, and hey presto the price of oil will be well and truly near $200.

Congressman wants to stop US exports to Iran's madmen

Lawmaker wants review of US exports to Iran - Yahoo! News:

"Rep. David Scott, vice chairman of the House subcommittee on terrorism, nonproliferation and trade, said Friday that he will press for a congressional review of sanctions enforcement following an Associated Press investigation that found U.S. exports to Iran rose from about $8 million in 2001, Bush's first year in office, to nearly $150 million last year."

Well, it is about time, wakey wakey US.

No war with Iran's Seyyeds during Olympics?

Newshoggers.com: More Iranian Rumors:

"Once the six week negotiation period passes, and the real negotiations begin, the clock is ticking. This time period is not an accident, there is a reason why the six week time period was insisted upon by several nations of the six party talks, including China. The six week period insures that war will not break out during the Olympics, and with this condition established heads of state will be in attendance..."

That's the power of China, and Japan. But I think that would be the best time to raise the temperature. At that point the Chinese will push their Seyyed proxies to forget their dogmatic attitude.

Iran's Seyyed isolation grows leads to become China's proxy in Middle East

Iran isolation grows as France's Total cancels $10bn South Pars gas field project - Times Online:

"Efforts to isolate Tehran have scored a political and economic hit with a decision by France's Total group, the last big western energy company in Iran, to halt plans to develop huge natural gas reserves in the Gulf."

Does this mean that the Chinese are going to do this project as well. Why doesn't someone say something to the Chinese?

But Norway is still dealing with Iran's Seyyeds

Bloomberg.com: Europe: Total Postpones Plan to Invest in Iranian Gas Project:

"StatoilHydro ASA, Norway's biggest oil and gas producer, said today it will remain in Iran and complete a project to develop phases six to eight of South Pars."

Why? What's with the Scandinavians? They were all for banning the cartoons, and now this. What is the relationship between the Seyyeds and Norway? I know, Dynamite. Seyyeds love bombs. Where was it invented?