Cheney After Seizure of Middle East Oil Wealth

26 October 2007

Tehran-People lobbying for US unilateral approach including Vice-President Dick Cheney, are after seizure of the Middle East oil wealth adding that another escalation will skyrocket oil to dlrs 200 per barrel.

According to IRNA Political Desk, the former commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi made the comment at a press conference after his speech at Jamaran Hosseinieh -- late Imam Khomeini's public audience site -- for a group of university students.

Rahim-Safavi added, "Over 65% of the world's oil reserves are concentrated in the Middle East and one of the major objectives of the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan was to seize this region's oil wealth which will skyrocket to dlrs 200 a barrel by another escalation."

Giving an analysis about the current status of the United States, Rahim Safavi said that the US lacks the potentials to attack Iran.

He said that US has militarized the region to prepare the ground for huge arms sales, adding, "As it was made public in recent news editions, the US has signed arms deals with regional countries, including Saudi Arabian Kuwait, and the UAE worth sixty billion dollars."

"In addition to the political objectives that the Americans are pursuing -- among which their defeated Greater Middle East Plan -- arms sales that provide the greatest income for US industries, is a strategic objective for the United States."

A reporter asked Ramin-Safavi about the fate of Ali Hassan Majid, Saddam's Ali Chemical. He replied, "More important than that is surveying who provided the former Iraqi regime with those fatal weapons."

Safavi reiterated, "The Europeans, including the German and French companies along with Britain provided the Iraqi dictator with technology and the raw materials, such as mustard gas.

The former chief of IRGC added, "Only one of the destructive aftermaths of the Western powers action was 5,000 civilian victims of chemical weapons in Iraqi Kurdistan's Halabja on March 14-17, 1988." Referring to Iran's 300,000 war veterans, he said that part of he war veterans are chemical weapons' victims, one of whom dies each week after having suffered tremendously for many years."

Rahim-Safavi reiterated, "The Europeans provided Saddam with those weapons, and the Americans, too, never condemned Iraq's numerous chemical attacks against Iran."

Referring to the humiliating fate of Saddam, his sons, other members of his Baath Party and his Chemical Ali, he said, "Today the world is witness to the grandeur and prosperity of Iranian nation, emerging as an effective and strong regional power, and an influential country in international community."

Note:
In Iraq for example, the Iraqi resistance was accused during this war to have blown up certain oilfields; when in truth it was actually the American’s that did the explosions.

Many have felt it was to cause the cost of oil to rise and the consumer to pay the heavy cost at the pumps.