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    Iran Claims U.S. is Supporting Terrorists

    U.S. supports "terrorists," Iranian speaker says By Kamran Haider

    The United States is putting pressure on Iran by supporting anti-Iranian militants operating from the Pakistani border region, the speaker of Iran's parliament, Gholamali Haddadadel, said on Thursday.

    But Haddadadel, speaking to reporters after talks with Pakistani leaders, said Pakistan was not involved in helping the militants.

    "There is no doubt in our minds that the United States spares no effort to put pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran," Haddadadel said, speaking through an interpreter.

    "The best indication of United States' support to a particular terrorist group is that one of the leaders of this terrorist group was given the opportunity to speak on VoA after committing the crime," he said, referring to a Voice of America radio broadcast after an unspecified attack.

    The U.S. channel ABC News reported on Tuesday the United States had been secretly advising and encouraging a Pakistani militant group that had carried out a series of guerrilla raids inside Iran.

    ABC, citing U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources, said the raids had resulted in the deaths or capture of Iranian soldiers and officials.

    The group, called Jundullah and made up of members of the Baluchi ethnic group, who live in both Pakistan and Iran, operated from Pakistan's Baluchistan province on the border with Iran, ABC said.

    The group took responsibility for an attack in February that killed at least 11 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on a bus in the Iranian city of Zehedan, ABC said.

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    ABC cited Pakistani government sources as saying the secret campaign against Iran was on the agenda when U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney met Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in February.

    The Pakistani Foreign Ministry dismissed the report as "tendentious." It said the suggestion Pakistan was involved in a secret war against Iran was "an absurd and sinister insinuation."

    Haddadadel said Iran had to step up cooperation with Pakistan on the border.

    "Some of the militants, the rebel forces are active in our border areas and we should work with Pakistan in order to increase security cooperation," he said.

    "There is no news, no evidence, and we don't have any reason to believe that the military establishment in Pakistan is also supporting such militants groups," he said.

    Asked if he thought the United States would attack Iran over its nuclear program, he said: "I think it is highly unlikely. We do not see any reason for military action against Iran and we do not do anything to encourage military action."

    He also said he hoped work on a gas pipeline, from Iran, through Pakistan to energy-hungry India, would begin in July. The United States opposes the pipeline.

    "The pipeline has political messages that there is security in the region and the three countries - Iran, Pakistan and India - decide on their own without foreign, external influence."

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    It's about time Iran got a taste of it's own medicine.
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    Point is, Iran is going to wheel and deal and do whatever they can to make good relations in the whole of the middle East. The US needs to just keep it's eyes open and not get involved in any conflict with Iran for a few years....

    And here's why:

    http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artm...w.cgi/67/24721

    Iran's Oil Revenue Running Dry, Analysis Shows
    By Barry Schweid
    The Globe and Mail

    Monday 25 December 2006

    Washington - Iran is suffering a staggering decline in revenue from its oil exports, and if the trend continues income could virtually disappear by 2015, according to an analysis published Monday in a journal of the National Academy of Sciences.

    Iran's economic woes could make the country unstable and vulnerable, with its oil industry crippled, Roger Stern, an economic geographer at Johns Hopkins University, said in the report and in an interview.

    Iran earns about $50-billion (U.S.) a year in oil exports. The decline is estimated at 10 to 12 per cent annually. In less than five years exports could be halved and then disappear by 2015, Mr. Stern predicted.

    For two decades, far longer than its designation by U.S. President George W. Bush in January 2002 as part of the "axis of evil," the United States has deployed military forces in the region in a strategy to pre-empt emergence of a regional superpower.

    Iraq was stopped in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, but a hostile Iran remains a target of U.S. threats.

    The U.S. military exercises have not stopped Iran's drive. But the report said the country could be destabilized by declining oil exports, hostility to foreign investment to develop new oil resources and poor state planning, Mr. Stern said.

    Mr. Stern's analysis, which appears in this week's edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, supports U.S. and European suspicions that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons in violation of international understandings. But, Mr. Stern says, there could be merit to Iran's assertion that it needs nuclear power for civilian purposes "as badly as it claims."

    He said oil production is declining and both gas and oil are being sold domestically at highly subsidized rates. At the same time, Iran is neglecting to reinvest in its oil production.

    "With an explosive demand at home and poor management, the appeal of nuclear power, financed by Russia, could fill a real need for production of more electricity."

    Iran produces about 3.7 million barrels a day, about 300,000 barrels below the quota set for Iran by the oil cartel, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

    The shortfall represents a loss of about $5.5-billion a year, Mr. Stern said. In 2004, Iran's oil profits were 65 per cent of the government's revenues.

    "If we look at that shortfall, and failure to rectify leaks in their refineries, that adds up to a loss of about $10-billion to $11-billion a year," he said. "That is a picture of an industry in collapse."

    If the United States can "hold its breath" for a few years it may find Iran a much more conciliatory country, he said. And that, Mr. Stern said, is good reason to belay any instinct to take on Iran militarily.

    "What they are doing to themselves is much worse than anything we could do," he said.

    "The one thing that would unite the country right now is to bomb them," Mr. Stern said. "Here is one problem that might solve itself."

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