BP remains one of the most active major western oil companies engaged in joint-venture energy projects with the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum outside of Iran. In the last five years, BP has begun extracting around 4 million cubic meters per day of natural gas from a field in Britain’s North Sea in a 50-50 joint venture with Iran, worth $1 million a day at June 15, 2010 spot prices.
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June 14, 2010 08:02
A Period of Consequences
Our dangerous Iran policy. The passage last Wednesday of a fourth U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iran was the latest act in the tragicomedy that is U.S. policy toward Iran.
June 11, 2010 07:47
Charles Krauthammer: The Myth of Iran’s ‘Isolation’
“Isolation” may have failed to deflect Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but it does enjoy incessant repetition by the administration. Apart from the fact that isolation is hardly an end in itself and is pointless if Iran rushes headlong to become a nuclear power regardless, the very claim of Iran’s increasing isolation is increasingly implausible.
June 3, 2010 06:00
How wars begin – is Obama leading us to chaos?
In hindsight, it will probably be obvious that the missteps of the Obama administration vis a vis Israel were critical catalysts to a war that today seems ever more likely to engulf the Middle East, and perhaps the world more generally.
May 25, 2010 04:10
BP helps Iran as many companies still do
Despite the governments supposed attempt to get ‘sanctions’ against Iran, many western companies are actively trading with Iran.
May 24, 2010 05:07
Israel arms may not be enough to stop nukes
U.S. intelligence analysts have said Iran could build its first bomb by 2012.
May 20, 2010 17:48
Sweet Home Iran – the al-Qaeda refuge no one wants to talk about
The CIA had a highly-classified program in place “to study whether it could track and kill terrorists such as” members of Al Qaeda in Iran, but the Obama administration shut it down. Why did CIA director Leon Panetta close the program, codenamed Rigor?
May 9, 2010 21:04
Undercover in IRAN, CIA operative talks about Iran
The inevitable nuclear bomb that Iran produces can cause major damge in many ways to our allies and even to US.
May 7, 2010 16:15
Time to plan for war
So much for US President Barack Obama’s famed powers of persuasion. At the UN’s Nuclear Non-Poliferation Treaty review conference which opened this week, the Obama administration managed to lose control over the agenda before the conference even started.
May 7, 2010 05:20
Obama’s Ostrich Strategy
The community organizer thinks a collective head in the sand will make Us more likable and hence safer.
