Reply #57: Iran's biggest friends are the Russians and the Chinese. By...

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...posturing, Iran is taunting the thinly-stretched army of a fast-fading superpower. Should that superpower or its ally Israel attack it, it will give justification for cutting off the oil sales to those and possibly other countries. Oil is a resource which China and the Russians need control of more than we do. If the Iranians are selling exclusively or almost-exclusively to the Russians and Chinese then A) The Russians and the Chinese get the oil they want and also know that the stock they are drawing from will not be as quickly sold to competitive nations and B) the Iranians, for their end of the deal, will continue to receive or possibly receive at an accelerated rate* weapons and technology from those two countries.


* I beleive that it would not be a stretch to assume that Russia and China have made it clear that if they (Iran) can cut the U.S. out of line at the oil trough that they will make sure Iran not only does not lose on the deal economically but gains extra advantages from it by way of Russia/China.

PB