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Originally posted by mad scientist
Well the fact is as you like to point out, Iran is an OPEC ( Oil Producing EXPORTING Countries ) member. Obviously they have more than enough oil to meet their own needs as they are a major oil exporter. Their economy could double in size and they'd still hvae enough oil for themselves and enough to export.
AS has been said previously, nuclear power for Iran is more expensive than using their own oil.
[edit on 30-4-2006 by mad scientist]
Originally posted by mad scientist
You cannot compare the US consumption of energy to Iran's it is completely irrelevant. The US needs nuclear power otherwise they wouldn't be able to meet their power needs, oil alone just ins't enough.
As for Iran and it's nuclear program, it is far cheaper for them to use their own oil and gas in conventioanl power stations rather than build nuclear power.
Erm it has nothing to do with Israel, they already have nuclear weapons. The Iranians on the other hand say they don't want nuclear weapons therefore, they have no need to have fuel enrichment technology. As stated before Russia said they'd be happy to do it. - why doesn't Iran take up that offer ?
Originally posted by tsensel
Meanwhile, 80% of their GDP comes from those 2.5 million barrels a day of export. It seems to me that they're running out of resources.
Now, Knowing that 80% of Iran's GDP comes from their 2.5 million/day export. How are they going to supplement their income?
Especially knowing that in 25 years of 7% growth they will have a deficate of 1.7 million bpd. Which they will have to make up.
This is a classic case of exponential growth against a finite resource.
Originally posted by tsensel
Yes. You forgot India and about a half dozen ex-soviet countries.
Remember. India and Pakistan almost nuked each other off the face of the map. But nothing was said or done about it because it was "US Sanctioned". We said they're allowed to have nukes. So it's ok if they kill each other.
Originally posted by mad scientist
Iran is not expereincing exponential growth.
That is incorrect about 80% of IRans export dollars come from oil not the GDP. GDP component from oil is around 40%.
Originally posted by the_sentinal
i've watched your post's on other boards pieman and you are anti israel and that's ok if that is how you feel... i'm not anti - islam just anti terrorist so where is the dividing line ?? that is the subject of another debate, suffice to say that terrorism has found a home within islam. and people have a hard time diccussing the topics without being a little biased one way or the other. i've put my 2 cents in on other threads and gotten called out for being biased. it happens , but i didnt attack the person who disagreed with me!!
Originally posted by ThePieMaN
I am not Anti-muslim, I am not anti-arab, and I am not anti-Israeli...there are wackos on all sides of the spectrum here. I am PRO-HUMAN.
Originally posted by tsensel
Remember. India and Pakistan almost nuked each other off the face of the map. But nothing was said or done about it because it was "US Sanctioned". We said they're allowed to have nukes. So it's ok if they kill each other.
[edit on 30-4-2006 by tsensel]
Originally posted by tsensel
Yes. You forgot India and about a half dozen ex-soviet countries.
Remember. India and Pakistan almost nuked each other off the face of the map. But nothing was said or done about it because it was "US Sanctioned". We said they're allowed to have nukes. So it's ok if they kill each other.
[edit on 30-4-2006 by tsensel]
Originally posted by tsensel
Thankfully that big earthquake happened (i cant believe im saying this). The cooperation of the 2 nations following that incident greatly improved. My question is.. How long will it last?
Originally posted by police_officer339
Does anyone think that the world and it's technology is progressing to the point where everyone will have Nukes, or even worse weapons?
What will happen then? The end of all we know?
Yeah right!!!
Reality check!! Nobody 'allowed' India and/or Pakistan to have nukes..
Originally posted by ThePieMaN
Originally posted by the_sentinal
i've watched your post's on other boards pieman and you are anti israel and that's ok if that is how you feel... i'm not anti - islam just anti terrorist so where is the dividing line ?? that is the subject of another debate, suffice to say that terrorism has found a home within islam. and people have a hard time diccussing the topics without being a little biased one way or the other. i've put my 2 cents in on other threads and gotten called out for being biased. it happens , but i didnt attack the person who disagreed with me!!
I am not Anti-muslim, I am not anti-arab, and I am not anti-Israeli...there are wackos on all sides of the spectrum here. I am PRO-HUMAN.
During the Iran-Iraq War, the Ayatollah Khomeini imported 500,000 small plastic keys from Taiwan. The trinkets were meant to be inspirational. After Iraq invaded in September 1980, it had quickly become clear that Iran's forces were no match for Saddam Hussein's professional, well-armed military. To compensate for their disadvantage, Khomeini sent Iranian children, some as young as twelve years old, to the front lines. There, they marched in formation across minefields toward the enemy, clearing a path with their bodies. Before every mission, one of the Taiwanese keys would be hung around each child's neck. It was supposed to open the gates to paradise for them.
Originally posted by tsensel
Yes, and america didn't allow saddam hussein to have chemical and biologicals
At one point, however, the earthly gore became a matter of concern. "In the past," wrote the semi-official Iranian daily Ettelaat as the war raged on, "we had child-volunteers: 14-, 15-, and 16-year-olds. They went into the minefields. Their eyes saw nothing. Their ears heard nothing. And then, a few moments later, one saw clouds of dust. When the dust had settled again, there was nothing more to be seen of them. Somewhere, widely scattered in the landscape, there lay scraps of burnt flesh and pieces of bone." Such scenes would henceforth be avoided, Ettelaat assured its readers. "Before entering the minefields, the children [now] wrap themselves in blankets and they roll on the ground, so that their body parts stay together after the explosion of the mines and one can carry them to the graves."
These children who rolled to their deaths were part of the Basiji, a mass movement created by Khomeini in 1979 and militarized after the war started in order to supplement his beleaguered army.The Basij Mostazafan--or "mobilization of the oppressed"--was essentially a volunteer militia, most of whose members were not yet 18. They went enthusiastically, and by the thousands, to their own destruction. "The young men cleared the mines with their own bodies," one veteran of the Iran-Iraq War recalled in 2002 to the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine. "It was sometimes like a race. Even without the commander's orders, everyone wanted to be first."
Originally posted by mad scientist
No it was the French and Germans who built Saddams chemical arsenal, not the US.
Originally posted by Dallas
May be the only reason they have not been attacked by a group of Arab States thus far.
Dallas