“Interaction between Iran and Russia in all spheres and especially in the energy sphere is very wide. We expect to further broaden this cooperation in the future,” Hossein Noghrehkar Shirazi said.

Shirazi said a series of discussions would precede the signing of the cooperation memorandum.

Iran ranks fourth in terms of crude reserves after Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait, as well as fourth in terms of oil production after Saudi Arabia, the United States and Russia. Iran’s proven gas reserves total more than 28 trillion cubic meters.

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=173140

If I were planning, I’d go for surgical strikes for the nuclear facilities that are gettable-to, even if they are in the middle of a city, and I’d also be aiming for Ahmadinnerjacket and the first tier or three of mullah’s. Then I’d use the burrowing down bunker-buster bombs as a back-up, hoping to get lucky on the remaining nuclear facilities buried underground.

Note that technically, these probably wouldn’t be nuclear bombs as we understand them from Hiroshima, but would be newer-developed with more precise aims that I’m thinking aren’t necessarily radioactive.

Can’t they see why we need energy and how the world beyond the Beltway is going? Their explanations are so vacuous. Anyone read Markey’s (D-MA) latest? And he’s chairman of the House Energy Committee I understand.

They seem stuck in this fantasy land about solar and wind – that’s like buying a banana split just for the cherry.

Iran is incurring difficulties moving that fungible commodity, that is what is important about Total Elf’s withdraw from the consortium. There is no need to attack Iran’s oil infrastructure, nor to seize tankers bound for China,(although a thorough inspection on the return trip might be in order) replacement of the NG is available in the Stans, and it appears that a ready supply is available for market under the sands of Al Anbar. As a fungible commodity the folks in Iraq should be able to trade interest in oil stocks between them as a means of funding the development of that field, while increasing the flow of current production through the existing port facilities at Basra.

I do not see a strike on Iranian Nuclear facilities affecting the price of anything, and perhaps it might lower the “terrorism tax” the speculators are making a fortune off of. UN resolutions and agreements made in good faith by Iran with the world community are enough reason to take out their capability. We are not about to suffer the demolition of numerous cities, nor wait for the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians just to mollify your conscience. That would be inexcusable beside being just plain dumb. We don’t need and we don’t want another war, we just need for certain actors to change their lines and stop acting as though it were a soliloquy.

Free after years in Iranian prisons, a well-known dissident provides a rare window on Iran under its ruling clerics.

Video: From Iran to the U.S.

As has been pointed out before, oil is a fungible commodity with very little slack between supply and demand. If you attack Iranian oil infrastructure without cause, besides incurring the wrath of the world community, you raise prices dramatically for everybody. If you seize tankers on the high seas bound for China, you’ve just picked a fight with them as surely as the oil embargo against Japan led to Pearl Harbor. There better be a damn good reason to get into another war, like an Iranian chemical attack on Tel Aviv. Sending Condi Rice to the UN to wave around some pictures of WMDs ain’t going to work this time, on the principle of Fool Me Once, Shame On You, Fool Me Twice, Shame On Me.