Iran Nuclear Standoff

[gtalum]

True gtalum, but if we fold so do their debts... so they have an interest to keeping us around. And we buy sooo much of their stuff.

As China builds market share in Europe and as theyir own economy grows, they become less and less dependent on the revenue provided by exports to the US. It is a sad state, but I think we may have passed the point where we are much more trouble than they are if our relationship should end.

[cycloneye]

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast ... index.html


DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Syria on Thursday backed ally Iran in its confrontation with the West over its nuclear program, saying critics have provided no convincing argument to deny Tehran the technology.

Syria is with Iran in the Nuclear Standoff.But is of no surprise that the Syrians and Iranians are united

[cycloneye]

Bump.wxcrazytwo you can post here about the bombing at Israel and the blaming to Iran and Syria.We dont want repetitive threads about the same theme.

[wxcrazytwo]

Bump.wxcrazytwo you can post here about the bombing at Israel and the blaming to Iran and Syria.We dont want repetitive threads about the same theme.

No problem cycloneye.

I'm tellin ya, I am smelling war on the horizon. Are they going to start blaming every blast on Iran and Syria?

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[cycloneye]

Ok I will deleite the thread that you made.

[sunny]

Bump.wxcrazytwo you can post here about the bombing at Israel and the blaming to Iran and Syria.We dont want repetitive threads about the same theme.

No problem cycloneye.

I'm tellin ya, I am smelling war on the horizon. Are they going to start blaming every blast on Iran and Syria?

[/url]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182308,00.html

Are you PRO Iran and PRO Syria?

[wxcrazytwo]

Bump.wxcrazytwo you can post here about the bombing at Israel and the blaming to Iran and Syria.We dont want repetitive threads about the same theme.

No problem cycloneye.

I'm tellin ya, I am smelling war on the horizon. Are they going to start blaming every blast on Iran and Syria?

[/url]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182308,00.html

Are you PRO Iran and PRO Syria?

LOOL.

[cycloneye]

Oil surges on Iran nuke fears
Crude hits multi-month high as OPEC member transfers money out of Europe, expects embargo.
January 20, 2006: 4:01 PM EST


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices surged Friday to the highest level since September's hurricanes crippled oil output from the Gulf of Mexico, as tensions mounted over OPEC-member Iran's nuclear ambitions.

U.S. light crude for February delivery jumped $1.52 to settle at $68.35 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Crude hit a trading high of $68.80 earlier in the session - the highest level since Sept. 2.


Iran has the oil card that they can play with for a while.

Also the dow jones industrials plundged over 200 points and in part the Iran situation is to blame but earnings is the main concern of the stockholders

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

Some times I think so. Info out of Israel before I would trust our FBI OR CIA after they been gutted for the last 20 years. ITs sad buts its true.

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

What was it again after Katrina the record? So is this going to make the gas prices jump like they did after Katrina.

[cycloneye]

Tom Kloza, an analyst at Oil Price Information Service in Wall, N.J., said the retail price of gasoline will most surely rise higher in the weeks ahead and he predicted that $2.75 a gallon will be a reality for many U.S. motorists by May.

Above is what we will pay thanks to the crazy Iran president Nuke ambitions.

Matt if I remember Oil was at almost $70 a barrel during Katrina.

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

Where almost there. In Iran is going to push the knife in deeper then Katrina.

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

Ouch That is a big drop. In Iran has not even started to block the oil. This is going to go above 100 dollars a thing of oil. In this is going to drop below 7k.


U.S. stocks suffer biggest loss in nearly 3 years


U.S. stocks suffered their biggest loss in nearly three years on Friday, plummeting on disappointing earnings from blue chips Citigroup Inc. and General Electric Co. and a spike in oil caused by geopolitical tensions.

The Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 stock index posted their biggest declines since March 24, 2003, soon after the war in Iraq began. The Dow erased its gains for 2006.

Citigroup and GE joined a growing list of companies, including chip maker Intel Corp. and Internet media firm Yahoo Inc., whose quarterly results have disappointed investors.

A surge in oil prices above $68 also battered stocks. Crude climbed on concern about potential supply disruptions stemming from Iran's nuclear plans, the targeting of oil companies by militants in Nigeria and Osama bin Laden's threat of attacks against the United States.

"The market's been watching the earnings reports very closely. We got off on the wrong foot with Citibank and GE," said Evan Olsen, head of equity trading at Stephens Inc. "You've also had oil lifting higher with bin Laden acting up and Iran acting strange which is concerning going into a weekend, so people are taking profits."

The Dow Jones industrial average was down 213.32 points, or 1.96 percent, at 10,667.39. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 23.55 points, or 1.83 percent, at 1,261.49. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 54.11 points, or 2.35 percent, at 2,247.70.

The major stock indexes suffered their first weekly loss of the new year. For the week, the Dow shed 2.7 percent, the S&P lost 2.0 percent and Nasdaq ended 3 percent lower.

[cycloneye]

By VICTOR L. SIMPSON
Associated Press Writer


ROME


Iran's nuclear program is testing the resolve of the international community, and the world needs a unified approach to the escalating diplomatic standoff, Italy's foreign minister said Friday.

"The international community must have a defined, very precise, very united strategy," Gianfranco Fini told The Associated Press.



Iran is facing possible referral to the U.N. Security Council for its refusal to give up its uranium enrichment program. The council has the power to impose economic and political sanctions.

European powers have drafted a resolution that calls for referring Iran to the 15-nation council but stops short of asking for punitive measures against Iran. The International Atomic Energy, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, will meet Feb. 2 to discuss the draft.

The United States accuses Tehran of seeking to build nuclear weapons. Tehran maintains the program is for generating electricity.

Fini also warned that any pre-emptive strike by Israel on Iranian nuclear facilities would have potentially disastrous consequences for the Middle East and the world.

"The international community must absolutely do everything in its power to avert an even bigger conflict," he told the AP.

"With the same firmness with which I say that Iran represents a danger and therefore we need to be very firm and very decisive ... I tell Israel that you cannot and must not think of launching a pre-emptive attack because it would set the whole Middle East and the whole world on fire for who knows how many decades."

Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned earlier this week that Israel cannot allow countries with "hostile intentions" to acquire weapons of mass destruction, a clear reference to Iran.


The sentence below from Italy's Foreign Minister above is important to note.



Fini also warned that any pre-emptive strike by Israel on Iranian nuclear facilities would have potentially disastrous consequences for the Middle East and the world.

[cycloneye]

Iran President once again lashes his rethoric against Israel.

Iran's leader challenges Europe to take back Jews in Israel

By The Associated Press

DAMASCUS - In a new attack on the existence of Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has challenged Europe to take back the Jews who emigrated to Israel, adding that no Jews would remain in Israel if Europe were to open its doors.

Ahmadinejad delivered the challenge after arriving in Syria for a two-day visit on Thursday. Addressing Europe, he asked: "Would you open the doors of your own countries to these (Jewish) immigrants so that they could travel to any part of Europe they chose?"

"Would you offer the necessary guarantees that you would provide for their security when they came to your countries and not allow another anti-Semitic wave in Europe?" he added in an apparent reference to recent attacks on Jewish cemeteries and properties in European states.

Ahmadinejad provoked an international outcries last year when he said Israel should be "wiped out" and that the Nazi Holocaust against Jews in World War II was a "myth."

In his comments in the Syrian capital, which Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Friday, Ahmadinejad forecast that the West would not answer the questions he had posed but would instead accuse him of "talking against global peace."

He said Europe should welcome Jewish people to prove its sincerity in supporting people's freedoms.

He added he was confident that no Jews would remain in Israel if European countries allowed them to immigrate.



He is looking for big trouble with Israel as he continues to make these kind of statements against the existence of Israel.

[Skywatch_NC]

This is a very interesting topic concerning Iran from another wx site by a member named WindyCityWindChaser (Mike), also:

http://www.wxchat.com/board/index.php?showtopic=11637

To clarify...The link isn't for advertisement at all, just to read Windy's topic about Iran.

[sunny]

This is a very interesting topic concerning Iran from another wx site by a member named WindyCityWindChaser (Mike), also:

http://www.wxchat.com/board/index.php?showtopic=11637

To clarify...The link isn't for advertisement at all, just to read Windy's topic about Iran.

VERY good read. Windy always does his homework.

[wxcrazytwo]

I have read something similar before, but it is all rhetoric. This guy has been a thorn on the U.S'S backside for awhile, and I believe ever since the Iran Hostage ordeal back in the early 80's. This man reformed himself to be more of a conservative religious view, but with Islamic ways. Yes, he believes he can bring about the the 12th man of Iman. But, I have been saying this before, I think we are in the 7 years of tribulation and 1012 will only be the ending of all ends meaning cleansing of the evil will have been completed. His views are no different than other leaders around the world its just that he is more vocal about. There are a handful of countries that would love to see the US crushed. But only few will stand up and voice it. He is one of them. He may be a threat to Israel, but is little threat to the US. Now, as we all know we will stand by Israel, but will Israel make good on their committments in attacking Iran because of the threat of Nukes being manufactured. Shoot, Israel already has nukes, so there really isn't any real threat from Iran. Yes, this guy Mike did his reading, but it is nothing new from what I have been reading... We need to stop this guy, if his intentions are ill-willed because it will come from Iran that world destruction will commence.

[Skywatch_NC]

I have read something similar before, but it is all rhetoric. This guy has been a thorn on the U.S'S backside for awhile, and I believe ever since the Iran Hostage ordeal back in the early 80's. This man reformed himself to be more of a conservative religious view, but with Islamic ways. Yes, he believes he can bring about the the 12th man of Iman. But, I have been saying this before, I think we are in the 7 years of tribulation and 2012 will only be the ending of all ends meaning cleansing of the evil will have been completed. His views are no different than other leaders around the world its just that he is more vocal about. There are a handful of countries that would love to see the US crushed. But only few will stand up and voice it. He is one of them. He may be a threat to Israel, but is little threat to the US. Now, as we all know we will stand by Israel, but will Israel make good on their committments in attacking Iran because of the threat of Nukes being manufactured. Shoot, Israel already has nukes, so there really isn't any real threat from Iran. Yes, this guy Mike did his reading, but it is nothing new from what I have been reading... We need to stop this guy, if his intentions are ill-willed because it will come from Iran that world destruction will commence.

Well, okay...anyway, just thought I'd share Windy's topic with anyone interested.

[wxcrazytwo]

I have read something similar before, but it is all rhetoric. This guy has been a thorn on the U.S'S backside for awhile, and I believe ever since the Iran Hostage ordeal back in the early 80's. This man reformed himself to be more of a conservative religious view, but with Islamic ways. Yes, he believes he can bring about the the 12th man of Iman. But, I have been saying this before, I think we are in the 7 years of tribulation and 2012 will only be the ending of all ends meaning cleansing of the evil will have been completed. His views are no different than other leaders around the world its just that he is more vocal about. There are a handful of countries that would love to see the US crushed. But only few will stand up and voice it. He is one of them. He may be a threat to Israel, but is little threat to the US. Now, as we all know we will stand by Israel, but will Israel make good on their committments in attacking Iran because of the threat of Nukes being manufactured. Shoot, Israel already has nukes, so there really isn't any real threat from Iran. Yes, this guy Mike did his reading, but it is nothing new from what I have been reading... We need to stop this guy, if his intentions are ill-willed because it will come from Iran that world destruction will commence.

Well, okay...anyway, just thought I'd share Windy's topic with anyone interested.

Eric, it is a good read and I thank you for posting it because of it gives good insight and what other people think. I appreciate you sharing it with us.