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Iran wants oil barrel to cost $80
Doron Peskin
Published: 21.04.09, 09:10
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1. The way Iran is going..low oil prices will be the least
(04.21.09)
problem... Ahmadnijihad will take his country down. By war or mismanagement - probably both.
2. someone is desperate. need more green.
ghostq   (04.21.09)
3. Thanks Achmedinejad: Iran is financially and morally broke.
robert renders ,   belgium   (04.21.09)
4. That is it! Iran will do everything to rise oil prices
Tayfun_Turkey ,   Istanbul   (04.21.09)
That is most important news recently posted, it is alreday know oil producing countries tendency to rise oil prices, Chaves, time to time loudly speake against USA, threaten to cut oil supplies to USA or pretend to have a war with USA all to rise oil prices, Chaves was a game partner to Bush, now Democrat Leader Obama do not fit their profile to go on oil rising game unless obama also assume role of bush in the game Ahmedinejat also try to rise oil prices from S-300 missles to nuclear announcement, in fact Ahmedinejat each time try to get a reply from Israel about striking, because each time Israel mentions strike oil prices rise! Israeli is also actor and take part rise oil price game, collect its share from US oil speculators in governmental aids and also US zionists are oily! That is the reality, all else is just a game to play to rob rest of the world including my country Turkey We paid 20 billion USD extra watching this game last year!!! Most expencive theater of the world!
5. to #4 you blam Israel
gsea   (04.21.09)
for what the owners r doing to you??? knowing Israel don't have oil? what kind of logic is that? you invented the term zionist's oil knowing it don't exist, alot of oil r by the hand of muslem nations, y don't you blam them directly for playing with you it's their oil you took Israel as scapegoat. and since larg reservoirs of gaz were found during cast lead in Israel, the economic dependence will be old news, and as for trading, Israel sells turkey among other things weapons, your theory is completely unbased.
6. Quotas are problematic to free market principles
Ypip ,   Canada   (04.21.09)
That's why we never even considered joining OPEC. Our energy production is based on the principles of a free market, not quotas. We're always looking for new markets around the world. There's a very large market right beside us. I'm quite sure that any new markets we pursue are based on free market principles.
7. Of course they want $80. They're in deficit otherwise.
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, DC USA   (04.21.09)
Iran's current economy is more dependent on high oil prices than others in the Gulf. If it's much less than $80 they can't afford the myriad subsidies and military/nuclear projects. So right now their national budget is running major deficits. Were the US to open up on- and off-shore regions to exploration that would put additional downward pressure on prices. Now is the time to squeeze them further. If the West tightens its bank and trade sanctions - including gas imports - the country will crack.
8. Iran drills oil but does not refine it...
(04.21.09)
Did you know that Iran, the second largest oil producing country in the Mid-east imports their fuel? It was not economically feasible to do it locally so they subbed it out. Now they are suffering even more.
9. Please Iran, try selling it for $80 in today's oil market
Genuine Tosefta ,   Tveria   (04.22.09)
and you will not sell any oil at all
10. iranian foolish hopes
Shiabuster   (04.22.09)
I hope the barrel of oil will divide per two, so the iranian people would have to beg for aliving. These cockroaches deserves not less
11. Mouthfull idiots
Barnaby ,   UK   (04.22.09)
Economically and morally the shiite entity is a tainted nation.
12. I'd like iran oil to be $500 a barrel, they could drink it
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (04.22.09)
instead of selling it to us. They want $80 a barrel. There is an old saying, "Want in one hand and poop in the other and see which one gets gets full first."
13. The Tragedy of Islamiya for Tayfun the Buffoon
Genuine Tosefta ,   Tveria   (04.23.09)
Oil has become a curse rather than a blessing for the Muslim world. Unlike Japan, Taiwan, Israel, Singapore and many other countries who recognized early on that their scarce resources required them to turn their lack of material resources into technological strengths in order to become competitive in the world economy, the Muslims relied exclusively on the great sea of oil beneath their deserts as a substitute for intellect, creativity and entrepreneurship. It has now cost them their future and saddled the world with a parasitic and pathologically suicidal movement that has proven its capacity to destroy and its incapacity to create anything of substance to human civilization. For all the oil revenues that have flowed into the wealthier Muslim countries, the overall state of the Muslim world is appalling. It does not produce one single manufactured product of sufficient quality to sell on world markets. Muslim productivity is the lowest in the world. Nowhere in the Muslim world is there a single world-class university. Science has degenerated into a few research programs in the fields of chemical, biological and nuclear warfare. There is not one true democracy in the Muslim world. No Muslim State genuinely respects human rights. No Muslim state hosts a responsible media. No Muslim society fully respects the rights of women or minorities, and no Muslim government has ever accepted public responsibility for its own shortcomings. The Muslim Middle East as the world's first entirely parasitic culture because it imitates poorly, consumes voraciously, spits hatred, exports death, and creates nothing. Blame has become the opium of the Muslims , and the greatest blame for their failures is that directed at the United States and, of course, Israel. It is their power, not its uses, that enrages the Muslims who are trapped in their own self-made weakness.
14. Current Iranian budget places oil at $37.50/barrel
Cynthia ,   USA   (04.23.09)
The Regime obviously anticipates the price of crude oil to go down, not up.
15. Iranian Oil Minister, you think you have problems?
Mongo ,   Paris   (04.23.09)
"According to Iranian Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari, this ongoing trend may badly damage the local oil industry." Just wait what the IAF has in store for you. You´ll be crying for Allah´s help!
16. SO DO I (MY SHARES ARE IN THE DOLDRUMS)
ROLAND SEENER ,   LONDON ENGLAND   (04.23.09)
17. I hope Iran's economy crumbles
zorro ,   nyc   (04.24.09)
and Iranians go hungry. They deserve nothing less.
18. When Ahmadinejad gets real hungry then he won't bark so loud
Adher ,   US   (04.27.09)
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