The Israeli ambassador , Ron Proser , perhaps lets the cat out of the bag concerning the real reason for the apparent antipathy towards the present Iranian regime by the US and UK.
"Iran is a serious threat, not just to Israel, .....it's sitting on the strategic oil reserves of western democracies"
( in the final minute of the interview )
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Very revealing.
Also, just when the Obama administration starts to believe that, through diplomacy, it has a chance to move towards "business as usual" with the current Iranian regime, what happens?
The Iranian people take to the streets and demand that "justice is done" and the rigged election results are declared void.
How inconvenient for the US? Obama spokespersons haven't known where to put themselves other than to repeat how "concerned" they are about the developments in Iran.
So, after decades of US declarations about the tyranical, undemocratic, terror-sponsoring, police-state that is Iran will the US be rushing to the aid of the Iranian people out on the streets? The answer is two cowboys: Fat Chance and Slim Hope.
No. The US will sit by, use suitably vague diplomatic language, wait and see how the "situation develops" and then negotiate a "normalisation of relations" between the two states with whoever comes out tops.
All in the name of profit.
Iranian oil and the oil companies
As you say Jim , rel politic is the rule of the day
",,,When Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad came to power in 2005 oil executives quietly hoped the return of a hardliner would have a silver lining. They hoped his election would bring some order to Iran’s energy industry, allowing negotiations to progress after years of false starts during which energy technocrats and officials were constantly moved around, and few had the power or will to make substantial decisions.,,, International oil companies are playing nice with the Iranians, trying to stall having to pull the plug completely, while keeping clear of making the kinds of monetary investments that would set off alarm bells - and possibly sanctions - in Washington and Iran is threatening to take the international oil companies’ projects away and hand them to less technically, but more politically able national oil companies.
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http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2009/06/16/foreign-oil-executives-watch-irans-protests-and-wonder/
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