Iran Revolutionary Guard Commander Becomes New President of OPEC
- Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:15am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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If you were worried about foreign oil before and production gouging by OPEC before, just wait until you hear who‘s the organization’s new president.
The Guardian is reporting that Rostam Ghasemi, who on Wednesday became Iran’s oil minister, is now the new head of OPEC. But not only is he from the U.S.-hating Iran, he’s also been sanctioned by the U.S., the E.U. and Australia and has his assets blacklisted.
The Revolutionary Guard and Iran couldn’t be happier.
“The clever and decisive vote of Iranian MPs for engineer Ghasemi to become the oil minister is a meaningful and crucial response to the attacks against the guards from the west’s media empire,” Ramedan Sharif, the head of the revolutionary guards public relations’ unit, said, according to Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency.
Still, there are some in Iran who are worried, including Ali Motahari, a prominent conservative MP who has previously threatened to impeach Ahmadinejad.
“The integration of the guard, as a military force, in political and economic power is not in the interests of the system,” Motahari told the parliament. “In neighboring countries, military officials are distancing themselves from politics and power, while it’s the opposite in Iran.”
Because Iran took over the leadership of OPEC last October, whoever becomes Iran’s oil minister automatically becomes the president of the oil cartel.
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Comments (188)
13th Imam
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:43amHe is the Van Jones of I-Slam.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:13amOh this should turn out well….
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:51amHow is it that the Arabs let this happen. Aren‘t the Saudi’s scared of Iran?
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:22amNo, we shouldn’t be drilling for our own oil. Better we should continue financing people who want to kill us.
Ronko
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 11:28amEven more reason why the US needs to lift all bans on drilling oil, I’ll repeat that “All Bans on drilling for oil”. The planet dies in 5 billion years regardless of what we do, if we don’t want to be enslaved to a dictatorship in the future then this is the route that we need to take.
Report Post »muhamadhater
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:26pmthis should be good for us right? Just one question…Isnt putting this guy in charge of opec…kinda like putting a child molester incharge of a daycare center for children?
Report Post »People this country just keeps screwing itself 2 no end..God please HELP us!!
Uncurable wound
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 1:08pmNow theres a Happy go lucky fella.
Report Post »At least his momma loves him..LOL
ILUVJESUS
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 1:36pmDrill! Drill offshore! Drill in Canada, drill in Mexico!
Report Post »B.A.D.me
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 4:56pmAll of this goes to show that we really need to go after our own oil. Sure it will take a decade or so to be pumping out enough to put a dent in our need for foreign oil. However, just the knowledge that we are going after it could dramatically effect oil prices based on projections. I recall when Bush symbolically lifted the offshore drilling ban on the Atlantic, prices went down that same day. It is difficult to believe that Liberals have this country’s interests at heart with their agenda. They ask what is best for the world (in what their twisted view of the world should be) rather than what is best for our nation. Sure we want to take the world into consideration, but we shouldn’t destroy ourselves in the process.
Report Post »thinkhard64
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:39amTo all who play chess this globe thing is starting to look like lines of pawns on all the levels that make this planet go?????????
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 2:50pmTHINKHARD64
Report Post »I only take issue with the word “starting’.
notsofast
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:39amWow, looks like my stock in oil is going up! Wondering however, where I can enjoy the fruits of my investment…maybe Finland?
I remember a Palestine student I went to college with, sitting there saying to me “you Americans are so silly, you educate us for free, you try to instill in us -through your education system- your beliefs and laws, and you think you understand us, what you don’t understand is that we will use your benevolence, good will and laws to defeat you and drive you from our lands and take over yours too.” He was a nice guy, smart too. Oh did I mention, he was on a full scholarship.
Report Post »El Pistoffo
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:27amThis is going to be part of our downfall, aiding the enemy. We need to cut this this crap and get serious but that’s impossible with this a$$ clown POTUS and his administration. This country is facilitating it’s own demise.
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 11:05amI had a similar experience with a Lebanese girl in university… But the difference she was saying 9/11 was justified. It was just poor downtrodden freedom fighting people fighting against more powerful imperialistic and totalitarian US government… So they were the Underdogs, and freedom fighters fighting against the Man!
She also believed that Palistinians were justified at attacking Israel, because Israel had all the wealth, power, and nukes. So they were fighting for equal rights. Basically her view was its ok for the ‘downtrodden people’ to uprise and use violence to defeat people who control more power, or could retaliate with more power…
Believe me I wanted to throttle her…
Then there was that other guy a turk, who believed the only way for the world to have peace, would be if there was a caliphate (ruling out of Turkey, where Mohammad’s clothing and other artifacts are kept). He was trying to tell me that caliphate was like the “your Pope”. I tried to explain to him, that I’m not Catholic, and neither do I want the Catholic church to dictate my religious views, just as much as I wouldn’t want some Caliph dictating my religious views either… I was thinking what he was suggesting was creepy… Since it basically sounded like the Pope and the Caliph should be ruling the world together!
This was several months before Glenn started talking about a caliphate…
Report Post »neveragainadem
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:09amI remember the I ran host age crisis back in Carter‘s time and couldn’t understand why we educate these for eigners so they can use the knowledge against us. Same with all the weap ons we provide and now the military training. The freedoms we have grown up with brings with it much naivety.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:38am5 dollar gas soon & if there‘s a war in the middle east we’ll have to walk everywhere.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:36amthe greenies will be so happy.
Report Post »ALISSTER
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:37amNow you libs can start chanting “No War For Oil”!
You were only about 10 years early.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:09pmWhen the libs have to walk every where they go cause we just don’t have any gas, the chant will be “Drill Baby Drill”
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:34amWhen will someone have to courage to prosecute our president for treason, for destroying America in every way possible. UN Agenda 21, no drilling, financial collapse, etc. How long will our senators and respresentitives sit on their hands and do nothing. Our only hope is the military and if he continues to transform our military, they will be left impotent. Where do we go from here?
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:41amI am unsure where we go from here. We are running out of options and time.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:44amNov 2012
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:46am@let us prey. we could start our on beet for fuel program, if that don’t work out, we could just use them to throw at the enemy .
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:59amAlso – Ken Salazar as the Sec to The Department of Interior – was force to admit in a congressional hearing that he had altered the report from obama’s own panel of experts – by claiming he “only modified it”.
Salazar was also forced to admit – “on-record” – that the report that he “modified” was used by the president to halt all oil drilling.
A federal racketeering lawsuit – involving RICO statutes – with a legal determination – of a CRIME against The US Constitution – could be then used to remove Obama from office.
POTUS has no constitutional authority to halt oil drilling, had US Government employee (Salazar) participate in a criminal conspiracy to falsify report = US government records – as a COVER-UP to what he was actually doing – HOSTILE GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER of another US industry.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 11:14amFINA, who has the courage to bring suit against them? Why are so many sitting back and letting this happen? Are they all complicit in this take over of America? What do We The People do now?
Report Post »muhamadhater
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:35pmwhere do we go from here? we go down as a country…and we have nothin but the polititions 2 blame for it..past, present and unfortunatly future. Unless we can take our government back from the polititions that have ran this country into the ground, we screwed…what this country needs right now is a rock solid business person that can get this huge company ( that the polititions have built out of OUR country) under control, 2 things we dont need in this country is another commity or another politition to keep running it into the ground…The thing is these polititions got us right where they want us and need us 2 be….DEVIDED!!
Report Post »ringo20001
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 5:15pmMembers of congress have not guts, most are just there getting rich or to get rich from contacts with big money at cocktail parties. They don’t care who is in the White House as long as it does not affect their financial status. Most are lying cowards, and have their own agenda and are legends in their own minds. They only like to grandstand at press conferences. The honest good ones are few, new and powerless. So there will never be an impeachment for OBONGO. When the continuous treason becomes more blatant, the military generals may be the ones to save the country. Arrest the current traitors in the in current admin and their collaborators in congress. Start all over again clean.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:34amwe will be screwed ,glued and tattooed, this is crazy, and no one in our government sees a problem with this, this will lead to even higher oil and gas prices, the world get crazier and crazier every minute, i wonder who here know this guy was up for the position and why they did nothing to stop it, where was the media on so a huge story. o that’s right,geoerge soros is telling them what they can cover ,he don’t want his interest to be exposed, also they had to cover their chosen ones birthday party, now that is important news.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:43amcommon
Report Post »We cannot run our cars off of beets.
commonsenseguy
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:49amare you sure, they are made of sugar, but they taste like crap.
Report Post »romadave
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 12:25pmactually, Beets are one of the alternatives to corn for making ethanol. They are high in natural sugars and when beet juice is fermented into alcohol it does just as good a job as corn.
they are an alternative to corn because a ‘bumper’ crop (ha ha) wouldn’t threaten the worldwide supply or price of corn, and it wouldn’t appear that we are burning up our food in our cars.
another option is a type of switchgrass or another grass that grows quickly and the pulp can be fermented. Brazil uses a tall grass for their ethanol blend. In Europe they use this tall grass directly as fuel by burning it. It has a high energy content and the carbon output is a little less than coal.
can’t beet it.
Report Post »TexasStu
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:33amThis will turn out well!!! And here we are about 5 to 8 years away from having any kind of oil production on our soil to help us out of this mess and with a commander and moron that pushes the EPA to ban, block, and stop all oil production in the US. Add to this the DOT pushing to control all farm equipment with stiff regulation and where do you think this country is headed? The EPA just put the emissions levels so low that even Yellow Stone Nation Park does not comply and it is expected to raise gas prices by a dollar in the next few months. Food, gas, regulations, spending and a Congress held hostage by the Dems…..war anybody?
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:41amWell said. We are being destroyed in every essential area. Impeachment someone and soon!
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:31amNot 100% certain why yet but I don’t think this is a good thing
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:30amI think I’d better go fill up all my vehicles and spare 5 gallon cans……………
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:19am.
Report Post »5gal can how bout 55gal drums…………
cloudsofwar
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:30amgood choice opec. maybe someday we will elect someone who will tell the EPA were to go and we will drill. ron paul 2012.
Report Post »GUT_CHECK
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:09amI SECOND YOUR MOTION….
RonPaul2012
big brother vs. constitution
Report Post »the choice is clear… RP2012
thinkinghuman
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 11:09amSounds like a plausible outcome to me
Report Post »Dan
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:29amWe should send him a well-built American electric shaver, maybe then he’ll like us. Oh wait, we don’t probably make shavers anymore.
Report Post »clingingtogodandguns
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:29amI bet he already has an invite to the white house.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:29amTrue. in that picture i think he is saying something about Killing Jews.
Report Post »mwhaley
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:28amHappy birthday to our brother Obama from Iran. Together we can bring the great satan down.
Report Post »wampanoag
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:27amTime for a US leader to break up OPEC-by force if necessary. The OPEC nations have been in economic war with the West and its time to eliminate the cartel. Cartels are illegal in the industrial world, so should be the OPEC cartel.
Report Post »trv1
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:51amThat is a little off, cartels are illegal in the united states. You sound like the characters from Team America: World Police.
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:26amGet out of OPEC and drill our own damned oil.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:33amDrill baby, drill! It’s coming in 2013 to a town near you.
Report Post »saranda
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:08amWe are not in OPEC and in fact have never been in OPEC. We need to cut deals with Canada soon to ensure their oil does not all head to China. And find a way to use our vast Nat Gas shale reserves.
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:26amUh oh, time to start drillin’. Crap, I forgot. Obammy won’t let us.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:39amUnder my plan, energy prices will neccessarily sky rocket.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:48amhey, you are not suppose to remember that !!! what gives, they think we can’t remember past last night.for some maybe,
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:37pmWell if we all just keep our tires properly inflated as Obama ordered then we should be ok. Right? :)
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:26amPretty creepy all the way around; that dude is scary lookin’!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:27am.
Report Post »Same face my wife makes when I fart in front of her……………..
Terri
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 11:26amTo Spankdamonkey – After reading your post, I looked at the picture and cracked up laughing. Thanks for the laugh, that was funny. I needed that! Things are so out of hand with Obama in office, I can’t wait until we have our country back come Nov 2012. Unfortunately, we have 16 months to wait, and who knows how much MORE damage he will do. :o(
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 5:58pm.
Report Post »Terri glad I could put a smile on your beautiful face…….
jedi.kep
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:26amWow. That’s brilliant. Obama will have thrills up his leg over this one.Now he can push his worthless green energy stuff on people and all the rest of us can pay $10 bucks a gallon or more at the pump. Brilliant!
Report Post »hightide
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:25amYet our president will not allow Americans to drill for oil. How odd…
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:43pmI know. You would think that he was trying to ruin this country if you didn‘t know better wouldn’t you?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:23amGet ready for the tap from OPEC lands to be reduced or cut off in flowing to America; and when set with the utter insanity of the administrations energy transformation of the land — especially the no new drilling going on, we are sunk — MEGA SUNK!!!
Once again, we can see the simple reality of the President gone insane with his progressive ideals and movements; and the windows opened for our enemies to put the pressure even more upon us and help the admin cave everything in.
If an embargo comes, in some form or another; look for a prompt emergency executive order to be released near instantly federalizing oil and energy, and then it will be strictly rationed.
Obama has declared before “of course your electrical bills will by of necessity skyrocket”, and here we are at the time.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:22amI can’t wait for that big bright flash over Iran, or Aryian, or Persia, whatever you sandrats are calling yourselves today. Go Israel
PS the photo looks like Bob Beckel, go figure
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:26amIndeed I wonder how long now it shall be in coming; and one thing too, there are reports that some of the smaller nations in the Gulf, especially the UAE and Oman may be uniting in a massive joint strike plan as well. Check out some of the Gulf States national websights, and put the peices togeather.
I can see how the OPEC meetings will go:
“Okay on the agenda is…Praise Allah 100 times…Declare the death to America….declare the Death to Israel…Declare the Death to (insert next nation in the list)….”
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:27amI’d better buy some new sun glasses ;)
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:35amSnow
Report Post »Good Day. After they do Israel, Then the US, it will be as always , the lesser muslim. We need a muslim dominance chart to figure out who is the muslimest of all.
cloudsofwar
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:39amthat big flash will be the start of ww3. the question is will BO strick back? i think not.he will gladly rule our new third world nation. then the red chinese will move in with all of those male troops who will be looking for wives. the nations bread basket will be untoched because they will need the grain to export. welcome to the new America with BO and the Red Chicoms.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:54amRumor has it that Idaho is thinking of giving the Red Chinese a 50 square mile Chinese owned Economic Zone. Michigan is in the running also.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:39amyour right he does look like Bob. an all nighter of wine, women and song. you know Bob loves the ladies.
Report Post »bandi9
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:21amdo we need any more reason to drill, baby drill???
Report Post »rabblechat
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 9:32amOnly problem is even if we went “full bore” we couldn’t produce enough oil domestically to meet our needs. We currently use about 21M BPD. We produce about 5M BPD and the highest we had ever produced domestically was just under 10M BPD. According to the IEA the U.S. has about 22 Billion barrels worth of proven reserves, that equals less than 3 years supply assuming me maintain our current rate of consumption. Its not just a matter of drilling more wells; the quantity of oil we need simply isn’t there.
Report Post »We will never be energy independent until we get away from oil powered vehicles and machinery.
louise
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:19amJust lovely. And what a kind face.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:27amAgree, a very evil, scary face. I’d have to say between Obama and this guy, we are screwed.
Report Post »Florida_Freedom_Fighter
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:17amHoly Red-Eye !
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