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Quote by: tinybear The more pertinent question is: does Iran have any oil?  |
Does Iran have oil? Let's see:
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...Iran sits atop some of the world's largest tapped and untapped reservoirs of oil and natural gas. This country's oil
reserves are the second largest in the world after Saudi Arabia's. And its natural gas reserves are the second largest in the world after Russia's.
Two, Iran sits a stone's throw - make that a day's drive or sail - from other countries that
together possess over one-half of the world's oil reserves and an irreplaceable portion of its daily production.
Three, Iran sits astride the Persian Gulf, with a coastline longer than that of any other country along this body of water through which about one-half of the world's traded oil moves. Those tankers, too, are only a stone's throw away from Iran.
And fourth, to the north, Iran sits conveniently between billions of barrels and trillions of cubic feet of Azeri, Kazakh and Turkemen oil and natural gas on the one hand, and the sea lanes of the Persian Gulf and access to the outside world on the other.
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I think I got a chill down my spine as I read that document. It certainly put a lot of perspective on our present situation.