Thursday, March 20, 2008

State Department accused of shilling for Iran..

Via FP/Blog, here and World Politics Review, here
"....Symptomatically, the above-cited AFP and AP reports fail altogether to mention Iran. But as a Feb. 5 report in the Financial-Times-Deutschland points out, this putatively "U.S.-backed" model of "Nabucco without Iranian gas" makes "little sense," "since all the central Asian states taken together dispose of less than one-fourth of the natural gas reserves of Iran." Indeed, it was precisely the prospect of being able to tap into Iran's vast natural gas reserves that motivated the Nabucco project from the start...."

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