The
World Economic Forum 2012 hosted a Forum for Economic War. The target
is Iran. The race to control the global nuclear power industry uses the old formula, war and money backed with feeble excuses to attack
the opposition.
North
Korea and Pakistan are undeclared and unstable nuclear powers.
Israel is unpredictable. The world is still here. But there is an
obsession with Iran. Can that obsession be oil like it was for Iraq?
Or is there a desire to curb the spread of new attained nuclear
technology know-how. Economic elites and political leaders at Davos,
discuss and perhaps consider a war with Iran? Europe’s leaders
recently voted to embargo all Iranian oil imports and block business
with its central bank. In response Iran has told Europe it may shut
off all its oil supplies to the EU sooner, rather than wait for the
embargo to come into effect.
It
is the same age old combination of money, politics and conflict which
sends many people to an unnecessary death, in order to make financial
gain for the Bankers of War.
In
Europe, only Greece, Spain and Italy rely heavily on Iranian oil, at
present about 20% of its production. China and India will take up
that slack for Iran. Saudi Arabia has agreed to supply the short fall
to Europe. Is this about sanctions or positioning for conflict?
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| The Oil Wars, Russia, China, Pakistan have drawn the line to western advance at Iran. Rotterdam 2011 |
Iran
is not perturbed says its leader Ahmadinejad.
“The
West must be aware that the Iranian nation does not need them. You
impose embargo on Iran’s oil but do not see that the United States
has not bought oil from us for 30 years and nothing has happened. You
impose sanctions on our central bank. The value of our annual
foreign exchange transactions is 200 billion dollars of which only 24
billion is with Europe. Sanctions cannot affect Iran’s economy,”
Post
oil, the world is preparing to go nuclear. Who owns the technology
wins. Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar,
Kuwait, Yemen, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria,
Morocco, Sudan, Saudi
Arabia and at least 40 other developing nations are said to have
approached the UN with an eye to joining the nuclear club. But will
they buy Western capitalist or Islamic brotherhood knowledge to
attain nuclear power.
In
the case of Italy, 10 new reactors would provide 25% of their
electricity requirements. A new reactor currently costs about
2billion euro. Life span depends on new discoveries. Then there is
radioactive waste
management costs, decommissioning of old and obsolete reactors.
Present costs are tens of billions per country. Is this a business
worth going to war over?
Israeli
Defence Minister Ehud Barak speaking to business and political
leaders in Davos said, “Iran may be close to reaching a point where
its nuclear technology slips into a zone of immunity."
Minister Barak
called for an urgent culmination of sanctions. “Those who believe
that better a bomb than bombing' are totally wrong," he said.
"We are determined to prevent Iran from turning nuclear."
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