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Iran Tries to Choke Israel with Free Oil Offer to Jordan

Iran is trying to close surround Israel on three sides with its “axis of evil” by offering free oil to Jordan.

Iran and Syria, through its Hizbullah ally, threatens Israel on the northern border, and the Hamas-Muslim Brotherhood alliance south of the border allowed massive rocket and missile attacks on Israel until the ceasefire last week after Operation Pillar of Defense.

Festering economic problems, a growing Palestinian Arab population and paralleled opposition to the Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty have made the kingdom ripe for Iran to step in, which it did last week.  

“My country is ready to supply the kingdom with free oil and energy for the next 30 years, in return for trade deals and agreements regarding religious tourism between the two countries,” Iranian Ambassador to Jordan Mustafa Zadeh said.

“We have one common enemy and everybody knows that,” the senior Iranian official added, which was a clear reference to the United States and Israel, according to an Al Hayat article translated and published by Al Monitor.

Jordan is burdened with a $21 billion deficit, but the temptation of free oil was termed a “big risk” by several Jordanian sources.

Spokesman for the Jordanian government Minister Samih al-Maaytah told Al-Hayat that “Jordan will study any proposal it receives as it deals positively with all nations,” but high-level sources n Amman expressed doubts.

“Tehran is seeking things beyond trade deals and religious tourism. However, Jordan will not abandon its historic alliances, especially with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries,” the sources said.


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Original piece is http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/162471#.ULG10YfktWA


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Yep, good old Persian Imperialism Xerxes and the invasion of Greece stuff - just don;t expect the Spartans to come help this time

Posted by Ymr on 2012-11-26 02:27:46 GMT


Iran's project under the ayatollahs is to displace Sunni Islam as the dominant strand of mohammedanism and to regain the imperial glory of Cyrus the Great. The theocratic leadership has no concern for the Iranian people; it put gaining of rockets and nukes ahead of national development and continues to do so even with the hardships caused by the (partial) sanctions. The Persina Shi'i leadership cares for the Sunni Arab "Palestinians" only insofar as it aids their ambitions. Iran does not care about Sunni Arab Jordan, it only wants to bribe that kingdom into allowing its territory to become Israel's western front. If Abdullah is silly enough to sip that poison challice, he will discover that there is no state that will give the successor of the sheriff of Mecca a new kingdom, in the way the Brits handed a part of their mandate to his grandfather when the Saudis kicked them out of Arabia.

Posted by paul2 on 2012-11-26 02:21:46 GMT