Violence in Iraq oil capitals continues … Iraq-Iran oil pipeline being built? … plus…
Violence is steady, and deadly, in Kirkuk and Basra, where combined more than 90 percent of Iraq’s reserves are located. The violence is less related to fighting terrorists than it is to finding a solution to the power struggle in Iraq. A pipeline from Iraq to Iran is being built, according to press reports. The […]A pipeline from Iraq to Iran is being built, according to press reports. The Ministry of Oil plans to increase exports and production through this and other pipelines, but this is the first groundbreaking we’re hearing. Also to watch: a proposed but separate, Oil Minister Shahristani told me, pipeline sending products refined from Iraqi oil, in Iranian refineries, back to Iraq.
As Juan Cole, Middle East expert at the University of Michigan puts it on his website, Informed Comment: "I mean, it is a Stephen King-style futuristic apocalypse for Iraq. Only it has just happened, during the past 4 1/2 years. And the American government is responsible for kicking it off. Every time I hear in the US media about how "well" Iraq is going now, I want to spit."
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