14/02/2012 13:14
Beirut, February 14 (AKnews) - Publish site "Stratfor" the U.S. report reveals that Iran is years ago the process of looting continued for Iraqi oil, and on a regular basis, from the area of southern Iraq, and help these robberies the huge Iranian government to withstand sanctions, which aims to stifle its oil exports. The report said that "Tehran has built a network of smuggling oil complex allow them to collect significant revenues from oil production in southern Iraq, and allow the proceeds to Iran, a revenue worth about $ 20 million a day, to maintain its influence in the region, as they prepare to defend itself against severe sanctions against oil exports. " It said that "nearly 10 per cent of the oil produced in the region of Basra in southern Iraq, smuggled, and ends up in Iran in order to export, and contain Basra, two thirds of oil reserves in Iraq." . and moves the location analysts as saying that "Iran increasingly feel the impact of the sanctions regime Ktvtha United Nations because Tehran refuses to abandon its controversial nuclear, and stressed the United States and the European Union sanctions on the export of Iran's vital that make up about 80 percent of state revenues ". "It has been Iran to try to take advantage of the Iraqi oil fields, which has reserves of known estimated at 115 billion barrels, while officials say that the fields untapped can contain a large amount is also similar. During the 1980-1988 war, captured by Iranian forces on the Majnoon field large along the eastern border of Iraq. " and revealed the site that it was "through a network of alliances which includes Iraqi politicians, unions and trade oil and militias, Iran is already well-positioned to collect the proceeds of oil in southern Iraq through informal channels, which allow Iran to take advantage of a large amount of resources to maintain its regional influence, "adding that the ambition of Iran's geopolitical make southern Iraq, an extension of her, allowing Iran to a large extent, albeit indirectly, to increase its stake in the global energy market. He concluded the report by saying "Iran wants to see southern Iraq, action-oriented one country with a Shiite majority, in the context of federalism in Iraq makes the south of Iraq is going on in Iran's orbit, and when it comes to making political decisions critical to being called the destiny of Finance in the event the United States launched a military campaign against Iran, in the latter the power of abundant financial of oil revenues that derive from the smuggling of Iraqi oil to influence the minds of the Iraqi decision-makers. " from: Khalil Khalil, the Open: Fadi Zeidan
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