Iran Weighs Plan to Cause Oil Spill:

[Hayabusa Rider]

Iran probably has a few plans like these. The question is whether they are willing to execute them. It would be unfortunate if they did, especially for the Iranian people.

 

[EagleKeeper]

did you pull this out of thin air? care to provide a link?

Seeing how you are unable to use Google - visit LL post #25 or J8 at #14

 

[Fern]

I don't understand what spilling oil accomplishes besides making an environmental mess.

Why would shipping routes be closed? Because we don't want to get our boats dirty?

Sounds like one of the dumber plans I've ever heard of. Which way do the winds normally blow over there? What's to say the oil wouldn't just wash back up on Iran's shore?

Do I give a dam about tarballs on the bottom of the S.o.H? I'd prefer they not be there, but if Iran intentionally spills oil those countries over there can clean up the mess.

Fern

 

[EagleKeeper]

I don't understand what spilling oil accomplishes besides making an environmental mess.

Why would shipping routes be closed? Because we don't want to get our boats dirty?

Sounds like one of the dumber plans I've ever heard of. Which way do the winds normally blow over there? What's to say the oil wouldn't just wash back up on Iran's shore?

Do I give a dam about tarballs on the bottom of the S.o.H? I'd prefer they not be there, but if Iran intentionally spills oil those countries over there can clean up the mess.

Fern

Environmental damage - big concern among tree huggers and others.

The West will expend resources to clean up the mess and will not be concentrating on Irans drums.

And

the resulting environmental disaster would force Western countries to start a large-scale cleanup operation in cooperation with Iran, which could reduce the sanctions currently placed on the country.

Iran as a staging area for the recovery. Hard currency and materials coming in. some will get "misplaced"

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

And
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the resulting environmental disaster would force Western countries to start a large-scale cleanup operation in cooperation with Iran, which could reduce the sanctions currently placed on the country.
Iran as a staging area for the recovery. Hard currency and materials coming in. some will get "misplaced"

In that case we should help clean up. First to make sure, we'll have to turn off oil production to make sure this doesn't happen again. The Iranians can have their sanctions lifted and sell all the oil they won't be allowed to produce. Win/Win.

 

[Darwin333]

LOL.

Tell me, how are we just going to "lose" our Middle East oil supply? You figure OPEC will decide that they no longer want our money and will instead sell it to someone else?

Get real.

Well, we had Saddam invade Kuwait, the Iranians and Israel acting all froggy and the rest of the region isn't exactly "stable". Plus we have already had an instance of us losing our ME oil supply.

Contemplate this, how much easier would it be for Iran to significantly hinder oil flowing through the straight if we had no .mil presence there at all.

Or perhaps your right, we just like invading countries, rebuilding them, and then giving them back to their people instead of keeping it...

 

[K1052]

Environmental damage - big concern among tree huggers and others.

The West will expend resources to clean up the mess and will not be concentrating on Irans drums.

And


Iran as a staging area for the recovery. Hard currency and materials coming in. some will get "misplaced"

If Iran starts dumping I imagine the decision would be made to burn the oil terminals and blow up their pump stations on pipelines to the coast with cruise missiles pretty quickly.

 

[dmcowen674]

Iran Weighs Plan to Cause Oil Spill

Can't wait for this to be the latest excuse for oil prices going up.