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Title: Iran &=20 Syria Building "Strategic Oil Pipeline in Cooperation With = Government"=20 of US-occupied Iraq
Source: = aljazeera.com/BlackJade = analysis
URL Source: http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.p= hp?Cat=3D&Board=3Dnews_news&Number=3D294479587&page=3D&vi= ew=3D&sb=3D&o=3D&vc=3D1&t=3D-1#Post294479587Published: Mar = 7,=20 2006
Author: aljazeera.com/BlackJade = analysis
Post Date: 2006-03-12=20 04:25:47 by valis
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Keywords: Cooperation,=20 Government", US-occupied
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Syria=20 and Iran are discussing the establishment of an Iranian = strategic oil=20 pipeline across Iraq

Syria and Iran are = discussing the=20 establishment of an Iranian strategic oil pipeline across = Iraq, an=20 official Syrian newspaper reported on Tuesday.

A=20 Syrian-Iranian Joint Committee discussed ways to improve work = on=20 building a strategic oil pipeline in cooperation with the = Iraqi=20 government, Al-Thawra newspaper said, adding that three = countries=20 will benefit from the project.

According to the = report, the=20 pipeline will run across Iraq, Syria to the Mediterranean Sea. =

The deal is part of a Memo of Understanding signed = between=20 Syria and Iran on the improvement of oil, gas and = petrochemicals=20 projects in an attempt to continue and improve cooperation in = this=20 field.

The joint committee also discussed the = possibility=20 of building a strategic gas line across Iraq and Syria to link = it to=20 the Arab Gas Line which is under construction to transport the = Egyptian gas through Syria and Jordan.

Syria and = Iran=20 boosted their trade ties recently. Both countries signed = preferential=20 trade agreements and several accords on finance, industry, = power,=20 textile, oil, environment, and culture during last month=91s = visit by=20 Tehran=92s First Vice-President Parviz Davoudi to Damascus. =

BlackJade=20 writes: ""Syria and Iran are discussing the = establishment of=20 an Iranian strategic oil pipeline across Iraq"? And "A=20 Syrian-Iranian Joint Committee discussed ways to improve work = on=20 building a strategic oil pipeline in cooperation with the = Iraqi=20 government"? The last time I looked, Iraq was under US = military=20 occupation. The US media seems to be too absorbed in the Bush=20 administration's saber rattling toward Iran & Syria to = notice what=20 is really happened in Iraq. That seems to be the PR strategy = of the=20 administration, in order to avoid a major Iran-gate scandal. = As Robert=20 Dreyfuss put it: "SCIRI [Supreme Council for the = Islamic=20 Revolution in Iraq], which was created by Iran and has strong = backing=20 from Teheran, is the most powerful force in the new Iraq....At = present, our 160,000 troops are propping up a pro-Iranian, = fanatical=20 power center in Baghdad. This is one of the major scandals of = the Iraq=20 war." A US attack on Iran would mean that the US would be = fighting=20 a war with the Baghdad regime, which US troops are defending. = During=20 this US-led "regime change" operation in the 1990's, Ahmed = Chalabi was=20 the go-between for the US, Iran, & the SCIRI. Sadda= m's=20 opponents seek US backing for coup - December 20, 1998
"Dr Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National=20 Congress which represents the widest assortment of Iraqi = opposition=20 elements, has also told Washington he has the support of = Iran and=20 Tehran-backed muslim guerilla leaders ready to start an = insurgency=20 in three key cities of southern Iraq, Amara, Nasriyah and = Basra.=20
Chalabai visited the Iranian capital late last month to = meet=20 senior government officials and Ayatollah Bakr Mohammed, = head of the=20 Supreme Council for Islamic Resistance in Iraq=20 (SCIRI).
Popular resistance to Saddam's government = has=20 already begun in Amara, and the Thawra section of Baghdad = where=20 scores of armed protesters were shot at by Saddam's = Republican Guard=20 last Friday night.
The reports of insurrection are = backed by=20 the Tehran-supported SCIRI and independent sources in=20 Iran.
American planes have been dropping thousands of = Arabic=20 leaflets over southern Iraq, explaining that Operation = Desert Fox is=20 directed only against Saddam and not against soldiers and = ordinary=20 people.......
The success of the INC plan, which has = been=20 submitted to Pentagon officials, depends crucially on = whether the US=20 and Britain are prepared to enforce a "no drive" military = exclusion=20 zone in the south. This would stretch west of the Euphrates = and=20 south of the 32nd parallel. It would be policed from the air = in much=20 the same way as the Kurdish safe haven in the North....=20
Richard Perle, an Assistant Secretary of State to = Presidents=20 Reagan and Bush, is one of the Washington experts lobbying = for the=20 INC plan....."

When Chalabi's = connections with=20 Iranian intelligence hit the US "mainstream" press, the Bush=20 administration quickly put out the story that they had = "disowned"=20 Chalabi. After a brief "time out," Chalabi was back in the = game as the=20 liaison for Tehran & Washington. During=20 Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi's visit to Iran, = President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "insisted on expediting work = to set=20 up an oil pipeline between Iran's port city of Abadan and = Basra,=20 Iraq's second largest city. Ahmadinejad also called for = completing a=20 railway project connecting both countries." After his = visit to=20 Iran, Chalabi went to Washington. According to UPI,=20 November 14, 2005, Chalabi said that "A major factor in = Syrian-Iraqi relations is oil...and opening a pipeline from = Iraq to=20 the Mediterranean Sea through Syria would be of 'enormous = benefit' to=20 Syria and could be used to negotiate help in the war on=20 terrorism." This was evidently a reference to the=20 Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline arriving at the Syrian port of=20 Ladicia

"According to the report, the pipeline = will run=20 across Iraq, Syria to the Mediterranean Sea"? This isn't = exactly a=20 novel idea. I posted this article in June 2005: Mediterranean=20 pipeline deal signed with Syria: "Iran and Syria will = construct=20 an oil pipeline which will traverse Iraq and Syria and extend = to the=20 Mediterranean coast." This is "part of a package which = also=20 includes the establishment of a railroad passing through the = three=20 countries as well as creating an East-West Corridor stretching = from=20 Central Asia to Europe."

There's no doubt about = Iran's role=20 in the US-led "regime change" operation to get rid of Saddam = Hussein's=20 regime. There also are a lot of unanswered questions about = Syria's and=20 Hezbullah's role this operation. In US-occupied Iraq, Prime=20 Minister Ibrahim Jafari is the leader of the Dawa Party.=20 "Radical clerics from Al Da'wa founded Lebanon's Hizbullah=20 organization." It isn't much of a secret that Syria & = Iran=20 have been Hizbullah's chief sponsors for years, and that Syria = was=20 Iran's ally in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980's. In this May = 2003=20 interview, SCIRI's representative in the UK Dr. Hamid = al-Bayati said "We used to have camps in Syria and were = trained=20 by the Syrian authorities."

"The joint committee = also=20 discussed the possibility of building a strategic gas line = across Iraq=20 and Syria to link it to the Arab Gas Line which is under = construction=20 to transport the Egyptian gas through Syria and Jordan"? = In September=20 2004, Iraq "joined the Arab Mashreq Gas transport = project which=20 so far includes Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Jordan." The = "Syrian=20 minister of oil Ibrahim Haddad said that the Arab line in = Syria will=20 feed the transportation of gas to Iraq from Homs = district." "=20 (1 image)
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#1.=20 To: Zipporah, christine (#0)
The real Iraq conspiracy
"Debunking 'Caveman' conspiracy = theories since=20 2002"
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valis=20 posted on 2006-03-12 05:27:57 ET = Repl= y=20 Trace=20 Private=20 Reply
#2.=20 To: valis (#1)
Haven't completed reviewing = blackjade's=20 compilation.. as always excellent work.. but at a quick glance = I didn=20 see any mention of this:=20
http://www.ips= news.net/interna.asp?idnews=3D23083=20
After I have had time to peruse this...I'll be back!! :P =

Zipporah= =20 posted on 2006-03-12 07:25:40 ET = R= eply=20 Trace=20 Private=20 Reply
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