The Iran Bourse Roller Coaster

[serryjw]

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- Iran is still insisting on opening a Persian Gulf oil bourse with the southern Iranian island Kish as its base, state-television reported Saturday.
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http://news.monstersandcritics.com/business/article_1151695.php/Iran_still_insisting_on_Persian_Gulf_oil_bourse

[Skink]

1. There gonna get occupied

[thefool_wa]

2. I think you are right.

But its like they are baiting us into invasion and that scares the crap out of me.

They thumb their nose at the UN and the IAEC, they insist on setting up an oil market that not only essentially bars the US (largest oil consumer in the world) from doing business there but also threatens the integrity of our currency potentially de-valuing it out of global existence.

They have to get CNN in Iran. They have to have seen what we did to Iraq. There is not a country in that area of the world that we can't bomb back to the stone age, even with our troops spread like the last pat of butter across the region. So why provoke us?

I only have two possible answers: 1) They are stark freakin crazy and want to bring the wrath of the US war machine into their country or 2) They are sitting on a trump card we aren't aware of.

However, the trump card may be a bluff. I can't help but think their sudden interest in nuclear armament (regardless of what they say publicly) is intrinsically tied to this Bourse. I would bet that they are hoping to be able to string the UN along long enough to get a couple of weapons they can use to defend themselves against us once the Bourse is up and running.

I know this is speculative, how far off the mark do you think I am?