Bomb, or no bomb, we'll get to Tehran. The Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan has been killed by a bomb connected to his car. He’s not the first. The hunting season for Iranian nuclear scientists started in 2007 when another two scientists were hit. One died and the other was seriously injured. Who will it have been? A mullah or western secret services? Or perhaps they bomb themselves? The silence of the West is more than embarassing. It’s a demonstration of guilt.
The winds of war arriving from the Persian Gulf are getting ever stronger. What’s happening is the economic strangling of Iran by means of the embargo. The United States have brought in sanctions for the financial institutions that trade in Iranian oil. A measure that should reduce exports by 250,000 barrels a day, particularly to East Asian countries. In January, Brussels will approve the EU’s embargo with the cutting of imports by half a million barrels a day. From February, Iran will no longer be able to export about 750,000 barrels of crude oil to the USA and its allies (or servants). The others remain. Turkey imports 51% of its needs from Tehran and is not even considering the embargo. China is the prime importer with 22% of Iranian oil, equal to 540,000 barrels a day.
China can happily absorb the unsold amount and intertwine its economic development to Iran’s destiny. All the signs indicate that it will do that. In that case the embargo will be shown to be an unloaded gun. It’ll be necessary to prevent the transit of Chinese oil tankers in the Gulf of Hormuz. Strangle China after Iran. Italy cannot follow the United States and NATO in this mad race towards war. The Italian economy depends on Iranian oil. After China we are the second largest importer with 13% and ENI has credits with Iran of two billion dollars. We need to start thinking about ourselves and our future. Washington is far away, further away than the moon, but it’s Obama who’s in charge at Palazzo Chigi.