$100b Iran-China energy deal ready to be signed: Chinese ambassador

[sabra]

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=318875

$100b Iran-China energy deal ready to be signed: Chinese ambassador

TEHRAN, April 29 (MNA) – Chinese Ambassador to Tehran Lio G. Tan has said that the oil and gas deal between Iran and China has been thoroughly studied by experts and is ready to be signed.

The Chinese ambassador was clearly referring to an energy agreement between Tehran and Beijing which is worth over 100 billion dollars.

“No country can prevent the deal,” the ambassador told the Mehr News Agency correspondent in Tehran last week.

When asked whether China was under U.S. pressure not to sign the deal, Lio responded by asking, “Would the U.S. export oil to us if it didn’t let you (Iranians) give it to us?”

[madrchsod]

1. see that`s why bush ain`t going to do a dam thing

he`s a tough talk`n texan that can`t back up his shit. the chinese and who ever was at the gates party gates ain`t going to let him do nothing.

[cliss]

2. Well -- they're

having seizures in Washington, right about now. This should eliminate any doubt about who's the real boss.

= it's not Washington.

[The Wielding Truth]

3. The Fundies will be happy it's lookin' more like "end times."

[Disturbed]

4. Would The People's Republic of China allow the US

Govt. to bomb Iran?

Uh...NO!

[Steven_S]

5. In a Geo-Stratigic chess game......

China's energy deal with Iran for $100B would be check; as would a multi-billion nuclear deal with Russia.

A security pact between Iran & China and/or Iran & Russia would be check and mate.

[Poll_Blind]

6. For those curious about Iran's strong rhetoric AND their recent economic..

...moves, you might want to peruse some ideas in this thread from today.

PB

[toopers]

7. Actually, this explains China's support . . .

for Iran, and the threat they have made to the UN. I wonder what Russia is getting from Iran?

[Tempest]

10. Actually, this doesn't explain China's suport for Iran

China's support for Iran has more to do with Bush's geo-political designs for the Middle East, which is in China's backyard, than it does about gas and oil.

The same is true of Russia. Russia wants to curtail Bush's designs for the Middle East because of Bush's support for the former Soviet Baltic states.

[corporate_mike]

8. wow

A memorandum of understanding was signed in October 2004 between Iran and Sinopec, China's largest refiner, to buy 250 million tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) over 25 years.

In exchange for developing Yadavaran, one of Iran's largest onshore oil fields, China would agree to buy 10 million tons of liquefied natural gas a year for 25 years beginning in 2009.

[0007]

9. We're so screwed

[Tempest]

11. This deal could have been between Iran and the U.S.

After 9/11 Iran worked with the U.S. on anti-terrorism measures and wanted to set up unilateral talks with the U.S. on its nuclear program and normalizing relations with the U.S.

The talks were not held because Cheney and the neo-cons prevented them from happening.