Iran, taking economic control. Pissing off U.S.

Remember back in the 1990's when the U.S. (CentGas consortium) badly wanted to build pipelines through Afghanistan to supply Pakistan and India with natural gas and Oil? Remember that Osama bin Laden was in the way? That Afghanistan was too unstable and that it still is? Well, what if a certain country just went around Afghanistan? Iran can and is doing just that!


Who's crying now? (Bush and his oil bully cronies)


Who's gonna be Iran's BIG new cool friends now? Pakistan? India? China?


Pakistan have invited India to join them in talks, set for April & May of 2005, with the Iranian government to construct a natural gas pipeline from Iran. India is Asia's third-largest energy user and has long awaited such an invitation to join the $4.2 billion, 2,775 KM pipeline project, said India's Oil Minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice responded that the project would strengthen Iran and thus negatively affects the United States economically. The so-called "peace pipeline" would bypass unstable Afghanistan entirely. The pipeline would originate near the Iranian South Pars fields by the Persian Gulf. It travels to Pakistan through Khuzdar, with one section of it going on to Karachi on the Arabian Sea coast, and the main section traveling on to Multan, Pakistan. From Multan, the pipeline travels to India's Delhi, where it terminates.


Sources:


Bloomberg, 3/28/2005

Agence France Presse (AFP) 3/28/2005
Al Jazeera, 3/18/2005
Deutsche Welle 3/11/05
TED Iran to India Case Study