Yea, well.. Its amazing the believe that iranians have to sell their products in USD, picture MSFT being asked to sell their products on iranian or nigerian currency. Ridiculous, isn't?
Uhh yeah, and Saddam refused to cooperate internationally on any and all issues unless it was black market oil money.. he fired on US planes in the no fly zone, he supported terrorism, refused to follow UN sanctions, royally messed with the inspectors continually, etc... oh, and he created 2 million widows in his own country.. God wanted him out of there.. the international community wanted him out of there, and he is out of there. I doubt it had a whole lot to do with pricing oil in Euros...
The only people who wanted Sadam "out of there" and Iraq converted from a first world nation into a third world cesspit were the Jewish Supremacist neo-kahns who control the U.S. Government and the Bush administration.
Are you referring to the Iran-Iraq war during the 1980's in which the United States government supported Sadam Hussein with intelligence and weapons sales? LOL
Exactly. Nowadays even if you are a redneck in the middle of nowhere in America, you conduct your life in USD you can still convert most(or the whole) of your wealth into any fucking currency you wish by clicking of the mouse. It's cheap(no ridiculous spread) fast and easy. Somehow, they think Americans have so much power to make anybody to accept $$$$. People,businesses etc. accept as much US currency as much it makes economic sense for them to do so. âThere is also another key issue that you are seeing, not just in Iran, but in other oil producers, especially Gulf oil producers, is given the depreciation of the dollar, it is better to hold their reserves at least in euros, it is a better store of wealth. Some of the other Gulf producers will accept payment in euros. They wonât price their oil in euros or yen, and even if they are receiving payments in dollars, most likely they are converting a substantial share of that every month into other currency,â Kirsch said.
The US Dollar is SAFE..... They can accept the currency fluctuations.... They KNOW they will get their money back..... NO other currency is 100% safe.....NONE... You guys gotta get out more....learn to read ......take some economic courses......some history courses....LOL.. SteveD
I have just ran into this visualization of world: Who uses oil and who has it? http://www.blog.thesietch.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/map01_1024.jpg
Iran is naughty and will not submit to the elite bankers' economic domination. So, the US will be used to do it - your kids' lives and your tax dollars will be expended to control the iranian economy. US needs to keep the middle east destabilized so they can control it, they are the #1 threat to freedom in the middle east. ----------------------- Iran "perhaps single greatest" security risk to US: Rice AFP Wednesday, October 24, 2007 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice singled out Iran Wednesday as "perhaps the single greatest challenge" to US security but stressed that diplomacy was the preferred way to end its nuclear drive. President George W. Bush last week warned that a nuclear-armed Iran evoked the threat of "World War III," and Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday spoke of "serious consequences" unless the Islamic republic comes to heel. Their bellicose tone revived speculation that US hardliners are pressing for a military conflict with Iran, which also stands accused of fueling attacks on US troops in Iraq by Shiite extremists. In testimony to Congress, Rice said "serious consequences" would include a third round of sanctions from the United Nations Security Council to punish Iran's refusal to renounce uranium enrichment. "We are of course very concerned that the policies of Iran constitute perhaps the single greatest challenge for American security interests in the Middle East and possibly around the world," she said. "The combination of Iranian terrorism, Iranian repression at home and the pursuit of nuclear weapons technology... is a very dangerous mix." But Rice was also adamant that while "the president does not take any options off his table, he's committed to a diplomatic course with Iran." "We are, with our international partners, continuing to pursue a two-track approach on the nuclear issue," she told the House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee, giving testimony about US policy on the Middle East. Rice noted that along with talks steered by European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, Washington and its EU partners were working on tougher sanctions at the UN. After talks involving Solana in Rome on Wednesday, Iran's former nuclear pointman Ali Larijani said at a news conference that "new and constructive ideas" had emerged on the crisis without going into detail. Saeed Jalili, an ally of Iran's hardline president who was appointed to replace Larijani as the chief nuclear negotiator on Sunday, did not speak at the news conference. The United States is also pressing its allies to help cut Iran off from the international financial system, and so prevent what Rice called its "ill-gotten gains" being recycled through respectable banks. Beyond the diplomacy, she said, the United States would do its utmost to prevent Iranian interference in Iraq. "We are determined to cut off Iran's malignant activities in Iraq by apprehending and eliminating Quds Force members and other actors who endanger human life and overall national stability," she said in prepared remarks. "We will defend ourselves and we will defend Iraqis against Tehran's meddling." The Quds Force is the covert operations arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and is accused by US commanders of helping Shiite militias involved in Iraq's bloody sectarian conflict. The US Senate last month resolved to label the Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organization -- a step that some Democrats said had set the United States on a path to war with Iran. Commenting on the recent declarations of Bush and Cheney, Democratic Representative Eni Faleomavaega said he was reminded of their aggressive language in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. "It seems to me that this is the same rhetoric that led us to war with Saddam Hussein," he told Rice, arguing that the US military was already "struggling" to cope with the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the secretary of state denied there was any gap between her diplomatic push and Cheney's hawkish stand. "I sit with the vice president. He believes in pursuing this diplomatic course," she said. "When one speaks of serious consequences, there also have to be serious consequences in diplomacy," Rice said, stressing the push for tougher UN sanctions against Iran. However, frustrating the United States, Security Council members Russia and China want to give more time for contacts between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency