Iran’s Natural Gas Riches: US Knife to the Heart of World Future Energy

Iran’s Natural Gas Riches: US Knife to the Heart of World Future Energy

by Finian Cunningham / March 20th, 2010 (1)

The scheduled start of drilling this month by China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) in Iran’s South Pars gas field could be both a harbinger and explanation of much wider geopolitical developments.

First of all, the $5 billion project – signed last year after years of foot dragging by western energy giants Total and Shell under the shadow of US-led sanctions – reveals the main arterial system for future world energy supply and demand.

Critics have long suspected that the real reason for US and other western military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan is to control the Central Asian energy corridor. So far, …
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