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THE KERRY-ABDULLAH SECRET DEAL
Monday, November 3rd, 2014 | Posted by Editor
http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2014/11/03/511280the-kerry-abdullah-secret-deal/
The Secret Stupid Saudi-US Deal on Syria. Oil Gas Pipeline War
by F. William Engdahl
Global Research.ca
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks with Saudi Arabia's
King Abdullah, September 11, 2014.
The details are emerging of a new secret and quite stupid Saudi-US deal
on Syria and the so-called IS. It involves oil and gas control of the
entire region and the weakening of Russia and Iran by Saudi Arabian
flooding the world market with cheap oil. Details were concluded in
the September meeting by US Secretary of State John Kerry and the
Saudi King. The unintended consequence will be to push Russia even
faster to turn east to China and Eurasia.
One of the weirdest anomalies of the recent NATO bombing campaign,
allegedly against the ISIS or IS or ISIL or Daash, depending on
your preference, is the fact that with major war raging in the
world's richest oil region, the price of crude oil has been dropping,
dramatically so. Since June when ISIS suddenly captured the oil-rich
region of Iraq around Mosul and Kirkuk, the benchmark Brent price
of crude oil dropped some 20% from $112 to about $88. World daily
demand for oil has not dropped by 20% however. China oil demand has
not fallen 20% nor has US domestic shale oil stock risen by 21%.
What has happened is that the long-time US ally inside OPEC, the
kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has been flooding the market with deep
discounted oil, triggering a price war within OPEC, with Iran following
suit and panic selling short in oil futures markets. The Saudis are
targeting sales to Asia for the discounts and in particular, its major
Asian customer, China where it is reportedly offering its crude for
a mere $50 to $60 a barrel rather than the earlier price of around
$100. [1] That Saudi financial discounting operation in turn is by
all appearance being coordinated with a US Treasury financial warfare
operation, via its Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence,
in cooperation with a handful of inside players on Wall Street who
control oil derivatives trading. The result is a market panic that
is gaining momentum daily. China is quite happy to buy the cheap oil,
but her close allies, Russia and Iran, are being hit severely.
The deal
According to Rashid Abanmy, President of the Riyadh-based Saudi
Arabia Oil Policies and Strategic Expectations Center, the dramatic
price collapse is being deliberately caused by the Saudis, OPEC's
largest producer. The public reason claimed is to gain new markets
in a global market of weakening oil demand.
The real reason, according to Abanmy, is to put pressure on Iran
on her nuclear program, and on Russia to end her support for Bashar
al-Assad in Syria.[2]
When combined with the financial losses of Russian state natural
gas sales to Ukraine and prospects of a US-instigated cutoff of
the transit of Russian gas to the huge EU market this winter as EU
stockpiles become low, the pressure on oil prices hits Moscow doubly.
More than 50% of Russian state revenue comes from its export sales
of oil and gas.
The US-Saudi oil price manipulation is aimed at destabilizing several
strong opponents of US globalist policies. Targets include Iran and
Syria, both allies of Russia in opposing a US sole Superpower. The
principal target, however, is Putin's Russia, the single greatest
threat today to that Superpower hegemony. The strategy is similar
to what the US did with Saudi Arabia in 1986 when they flooded the
world with Saudi oil, collapsing the price to below $10 a barrel and
destroying the economy of then-Soviet ally, Saddam Hussein in Iraq
and, ultimately, of the Soviet economy, paving the way for the fall of
the Soviet Union. Today, the hope is that a collapse of Russian oil
revenues, combined with select pin-prick sanctions designed by the
US Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence will
dramatically weaken Putin's enormous domestic support and create
conditions for his ultimate overthrow. It is doomed to fail for
many reasons, not the least, because Putin's Russia has taken major
strategic steps together with China and other nations to lessen its
dependence on the West. In fact the oil weapon is accelerating recent
Russian moves to focus its economic power on national interests and
lessen dependence on the Dollar system. If the dollar ceases being the
currency of world trade, especially oil trade, the US Treasury faces
financial catastrophe. For this reason, I call the Kerry-Abdullah
oil war a very stupid tactic.
The Kerry-Abdullah secret deal
On September 11, US Secretary of State Kerry met Saudi King Abdullah
at his palace on the Red Sea. The King invited former head of Saudi
intelligence, Prince Bandar to attend. There a deal was hammered
out which saw Saudi support for the Syrian airstrikes against ISIS
on condition Washington backed the Saudis in toppling Assad, a firm
ally of Russia and de facto of Iran and an obstacle to Saudi and
UAE plans to control the emerging EU natural gas market and destroy
Russia's lucrative EU trade. A report in the Wall Street Journal noted
there had been "months of behind-the-scenes work by the US and Arab
leaders, who agreed on the need to cooperate against Islamic State,
but not how or when. The process gave the Saudis leverage to extract a
fresh US commitment to beef up training for rebels fighting Mr. Assad,
whose demise the Saudis still see as a top priority." [3]
For the Saudis the war is between two competing age-old vectors of
Islam. Saudi Arabia, home to the sacred cities of Mecca and Medina,
claims de facto supremacy in the Islamic world of Sunni Islam. The
Saudi Sunni form is ultra-conservative Wahhabism, named for an 18th
Century Bedouin Islamic fundamentalist or Salafist named Muhammad
ibn Abd al-Wahha. The Taliban derive from Wahhabism with the aid of
Saudi-financed religious instruction. The Gulf Emirates and Kuwait
also adhere to the Sunni Wahhabism of the Saudis, as does the Emir
of Qatar. Iran on the other hand historically is the heart of the
smaller branch of Islam, the Shi'ite. Iraq's population is some 61%
majority Shi'ite. Syria's President, Bashar al-Assad is a member
of a satellite of the Shi'ite branch known as Alawite. Some 23% of
Turkey is also Alawite Muslim. To complicate the picture more, across
a bridge from Saudi Arabia sits the tiny island country, Bahrain
where as many as 75% of the population is Shi'ite but the ruling
Al-Khalifa family is Sunni and firmly tied to Saudi Arabia. Moreover,
the richest Saudi oil region is dominated by Shi'ite Muslims who work
the oil installations of Ras Tanura.
An oil and gas pipeline war
These historic fault lines inside Islam which lay dormant, were
brought into a state of open warfare with the launching of the US
State Department and CIA's Islamic Holy War, otherwise known as the
Arab Spring. Washington neo-conservatives embedded inside the Obama
Administration in a form of "Deep State" secret network, and their
allied media such as the Washington Post, advocated US covert backing
of a pet CIA project known as the Muslim Brotherhood. As I detail in my
most recent book, Amerikas' Heiliger Krieg, the CIA had cultivated ties
to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood death cult since the early 1950's.
Now if we map the resources of known natural gas reserves in the
entire Persian Gulf region, the motives of the Saudi-led Qatar and
UAE in financing with billions of dollars the opposition to Assad,
including the Sunni ISIS, becomes clearer. Natural gas has become
the favored "clean energy" source for the 21st Century and the EU is
the world's largest growth market for gas, a major reason Washington
wants to break the Gazprom-EU supply dependency to weaken Russia and
keep control over the EU via loyal proxies like Qatar.
The world's largest known natural gas reservoir sits in the middle of
the Persian Gulf straddling part in the territorial waters of Qatar
and part in Iran. The Iranian part is called North Pars. In 2006
China's state-owned CNOOC signed an agreement with Iran to develop
North Pars and build LNG infrastructure to bring the gas to China.[4]
The Qatar side of the Persian Gulf, called North Field, contains
the world's third largest known natural gas reserves behind Russia
and Iran.
In July 2011, the governments of Syria, Iran and Iraq signed an
historic gas pipeline energy agreement which went largely unnoticed in
the midst of the NATO-Saudi-Qatari war to remove Assad. The pipeline,
envisioned to cost $10 billion and take three years to complete, would
run from the Iranian Port Assalouyeh near the South Pars gas field
in the Persian Gulf, to Damascus in Syria via Iraq territory. The
agreement would make Syria the center of assembly and production in
conjunction with the reserves of Lebanon. This is a geopolitically
strategic space that geographically opens for the first time,
extending from Iran to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.[5] As Asia Times
correspondent Pepe Escobar put it, "The Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline -
if it's ever built - would solidify a predominantly Shi'ite axis
through an economic, steel umbilical cord."[6]
Shortly after signing with Iran and Iraq, on August 16, 2011, Bashar
al-Assad's Syrian Ministry of Oil announced the discovery of a gas
well in the Area of Qarah in the Central Region of Syria near Homs.
Gazprom, with Assad in power, would be a major investor or operator
of the new gas fields in Syria. [7] Iran ultimately plans to extend
the pipeline from Damascus to Lebanon's Mediterranean port where it
would be delivered to the huge EU market. Syria would buy Iranian gas
along with a current Iraqi agreement to buy Iranian gas from Iran's
part of South Pars field.[8]
Qatar, today the world's largest exporter of LNG, largely to Asia,
wants the same EU market that Iran and Syria eye. For that, they
would build pipelines to the Mediterranean. Here is where getting
rid of the pro-Iran Assad is essential. In 2009 Qatar approached
Bashar al-Assad to propose construction of a gas pipeline from Qatar's
north Field through Syria on to Turkey and to the EU. Assad refused,
citing Syria's long friendly relations with Russia and Gazprom. That
refusal combined with the Iran-Iraq-Syria gas pipeline agreement
in 2011 ignited the full-scale Saudi and Qatari assault on Assad's
power, financing al Qaeda terrorists, recruits of Jihadist fanatics
willing to kill Alawite and Shi'ite "infidels" for $100 a month and a
Kalishnikov. The Washington neo-conservative warhawks in and around
the Obama White House, along with their allies in the right-wing
Netanyahu government, were cheering from the bleachers as Syria went
up in flames after spring 2011.
Today the US-backed wars in Ukraine and in Syria are but two fronts
in the same strategic war to cripple Russia and China and to rupture
any Eurasian counter-pole to a US-controlled New World Order. In
each, control of energy pipelines, this time primarily of natural gas
pipelines--from Russia to the EU via Ukraine and from Iran and Syria
to the EU via Syria--is the strategic goal. The true aim of the US and
Israel backed ISIS is to give the pretext for bombing Assad's vital
grain silos and oil refineries to cripple the economy in preparation
for a "Ghaddafi-"style elimination of Russia and China and Iran-ally
Bashar al-Assad.
In a narrow sense, as Washington neo-conservatives see it, who controls
Syria could control the Middle East. And from Syria, gateway to Asia,
he will hold the key to Russia House, as well as that of China via
the Silk Road.
Religious wars have historically been the most savage of all wars
and this one is no exception, especially when trillions of dollars in
oil and gas revenues are at stake. Why is the secret Kerry-Abdullah
deal on Syria reached on September 11 stupid? Because the brilliant
tacticians in Washington and Riyadh and Doha and to an extent in Ankara
are unable to look at the interconnectedness of all the dis-order and
destruction they foment, to look beyond their visions of control of
the oil and gas flows as the basis of their illegitimate power. They
are planting the seeds of their own destruction in the end.
William Engdahl is author of A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil
Politics in the New World Order. He is a contributing author at BFP and
may be contacted through his website at www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net
where this article was originally published.
Notes:
[1] M. Rochan, Crude Oil Drops Amid Global
Demand Concerns, IB Times, October 11, 2014
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/crude-oil-drops-amid-global-demand-concerns-1469524
[2] Nihan Cabbaroglu, Saudi Arabia to pressure Russia Iran
with price of oil, 10 October 2014, Turkish Anadolu Agency,
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/402343-saudi-arabia-to-pressure-russia-iran-with-price-of-oil
[3] Adam Entous and Julian E. Barnes, Deal With Saudis Paved Way for
Syrian Airstrikes: Talks With Saudi Arabia Were Linchpin in U.S.
Efforts to Get Arab States Into Fight Against Islamic
State, Wall Street Journal, September. 24, 2014,
http://online.wsj.com/articles/deal-with-saudis-paved-way-for-syrian-airstrikes-1411605329?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
[4] POGC, North Pars Gas Field, Pars Oil and Gas Company website,
http://www.pogc.ir/NorthParsGasField/tabid/155/Default.aspx
[5] Imad Fawzi Shueibi , War Over Gas-Struggle over the Middle East:
Gas Ranks First, 17 April, 2012.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article173718.html
[6] Pepe Escobar, Why Qatar Wants to Invade
Syria, Asia Times, September 27, 2012,
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32576.htm
[7] Ibid.
[8] F. William Engdahl, Syria Turkey Israel and the Greater
Middle East Energy War, Global Research, October 11, 2012,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-turkey-israel-and-the-greater-middle-east-energy-war/5307902
From: Baghdasarian
Monday, November 3rd, 2014 | Posted by Editor
http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2014/11/03/511280the-kerry-abdullah-secret-deal/
The Secret Stupid Saudi-US Deal on Syria. Oil Gas Pipeline War
by F. William Engdahl
Global Research.ca
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks with Saudi Arabia's
King Abdullah, September 11, 2014.
The details are emerging of a new secret and quite stupid Saudi-US deal
on Syria and the so-called IS. It involves oil and gas control of the
entire region and the weakening of Russia and Iran by Saudi Arabian
flooding the world market with cheap oil. Details were concluded in
the September meeting by US Secretary of State John Kerry and the
Saudi King. The unintended consequence will be to push Russia even
faster to turn east to China and Eurasia.
One of the weirdest anomalies of the recent NATO bombing campaign,
allegedly against the ISIS or IS or ISIL or Daash, depending on
your preference, is the fact that with major war raging in the
world's richest oil region, the price of crude oil has been dropping,
dramatically so. Since June when ISIS suddenly captured the oil-rich
region of Iraq around Mosul and Kirkuk, the benchmark Brent price
of crude oil dropped some 20% from $112 to about $88. World daily
demand for oil has not dropped by 20% however. China oil demand has
not fallen 20% nor has US domestic shale oil stock risen by 21%.
What has happened is that the long-time US ally inside OPEC, the
kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has been flooding the market with deep
discounted oil, triggering a price war within OPEC, with Iran following
suit and panic selling short in oil futures markets. The Saudis are
targeting sales to Asia for the discounts and in particular, its major
Asian customer, China where it is reportedly offering its crude for
a mere $50 to $60 a barrel rather than the earlier price of around
$100. [1] That Saudi financial discounting operation in turn is by
all appearance being coordinated with a US Treasury financial warfare
operation, via its Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence,
in cooperation with a handful of inside players on Wall Street who
control oil derivatives trading. The result is a market panic that
is gaining momentum daily. China is quite happy to buy the cheap oil,
but her close allies, Russia and Iran, are being hit severely.
The deal
According to Rashid Abanmy, President of the Riyadh-based Saudi
Arabia Oil Policies and Strategic Expectations Center, the dramatic
price collapse is being deliberately caused by the Saudis, OPEC's
largest producer. The public reason claimed is to gain new markets
in a global market of weakening oil demand.
The real reason, according to Abanmy, is to put pressure on Iran
on her nuclear program, and on Russia to end her support for Bashar
al-Assad in Syria.[2]
When combined with the financial losses of Russian state natural
gas sales to Ukraine and prospects of a US-instigated cutoff of
the transit of Russian gas to the huge EU market this winter as EU
stockpiles become low, the pressure on oil prices hits Moscow doubly.
More than 50% of Russian state revenue comes from its export sales
of oil and gas.
The US-Saudi oil price manipulation is aimed at destabilizing several
strong opponents of US globalist policies. Targets include Iran and
Syria, both allies of Russia in opposing a US sole Superpower. The
principal target, however, is Putin's Russia, the single greatest
threat today to that Superpower hegemony. The strategy is similar
to what the US did with Saudi Arabia in 1986 when they flooded the
world with Saudi oil, collapsing the price to below $10 a barrel and
destroying the economy of then-Soviet ally, Saddam Hussein in Iraq
and, ultimately, of the Soviet economy, paving the way for the fall of
the Soviet Union. Today, the hope is that a collapse of Russian oil
revenues, combined with select pin-prick sanctions designed by the
US Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence will
dramatically weaken Putin's enormous domestic support and create
conditions for his ultimate overthrow. It is doomed to fail for
many reasons, not the least, because Putin's Russia has taken major
strategic steps together with China and other nations to lessen its
dependence on the West. In fact the oil weapon is accelerating recent
Russian moves to focus its economic power on national interests and
lessen dependence on the Dollar system. If the dollar ceases being the
currency of world trade, especially oil trade, the US Treasury faces
financial catastrophe. For this reason, I call the Kerry-Abdullah
oil war a very stupid tactic.
The Kerry-Abdullah secret deal
On September 11, US Secretary of State Kerry met Saudi King Abdullah
at his palace on the Red Sea. The King invited former head of Saudi
intelligence, Prince Bandar to attend. There a deal was hammered
out which saw Saudi support for the Syrian airstrikes against ISIS
on condition Washington backed the Saudis in toppling Assad, a firm
ally of Russia and de facto of Iran and an obstacle to Saudi and
UAE plans to control the emerging EU natural gas market and destroy
Russia's lucrative EU trade. A report in the Wall Street Journal noted
there had been "months of behind-the-scenes work by the US and Arab
leaders, who agreed on the need to cooperate against Islamic State,
but not how or when. The process gave the Saudis leverage to extract a
fresh US commitment to beef up training for rebels fighting Mr. Assad,
whose demise the Saudis still see as a top priority." [3]
For the Saudis the war is between two competing age-old vectors of
Islam. Saudi Arabia, home to the sacred cities of Mecca and Medina,
claims de facto supremacy in the Islamic world of Sunni Islam. The
Saudi Sunni form is ultra-conservative Wahhabism, named for an 18th
Century Bedouin Islamic fundamentalist or Salafist named Muhammad
ibn Abd al-Wahha. The Taliban derive from Wahhabism with the aid of
Saudi-financed religious instruction. The Gulf Emirates and Kuwait
also adhere to the Sunni Wahhabism of the Saudis, as does the Emir
of Qatar. Iran on the other hand historically is the heart of the
smaller branch of Islam, the Shi'ite. Iraq's population is some 61%
majority Shi'ite. Syria's President, Bashar al-Assad is a member
of a satellite of the Shi'ite branch known as Alawite. Some 23% of
Turkey is also Alawite Muslim. To complicate the picture more, across
a bridge from Saudi Arabia sits the tiny island country, Bahrain
where as many as 75% of the population is Shi'ite but the ruling
Al-Khalifa family is Sunni and firmly tied to Saudi Arabia. Moreover,
the richest Saudi oil region is dominated by Shi'ite Muslims who work
the oil installations of Ras Tanura.
An oil and gas pipeline war
These historic fault lines inside Islam which lay dormant, were
brought into a state of open warfare with the launching of the US
State Department and CIA's Islamic Holy War, otherwise known as the
Arab Spring. Washington neo-conservatives embedded inside the Obama
Administration in a form of "Deep State" secret network, and their
allied media such as the Washington Post, advocated US covert backing
of a pet CIA project known as the Muslim Brotherhood. As I detail in my
most recent book, Amerikas' Heiliger Krieg, the CIA had cultivated ties
to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood death cult since the early 1950's.
Now if we map the resources of known natural gas reserves in the
entire Persian Gulf region, the motives of the Saudi-led Qatar and
UAE in financing with billions of dollars the opposition to Assad,
including the Sunni ISIS, becomes clearer. Natural gas has become
the favored "clean energy" source for the 21st Century and the EU is
the world's largest growth market for gas, a major reason Washington
wants to break the Gazprom-EU supply dependency to weaken Russia and
keep control over the EU via loyal proxies like Qatar.
The world's largest known natural gas reservoir sits in the middle of
the Persian Gulf straddling part in the territorial waters of Qatar
and part in Iran. The Iranian part is called North Pars. In 2006
China's state-owned CNOOC signed an agreement with Iran to develop
North Pars and build LNG infrastructure to bring the gas to China.[4]
The Qatar side of the Persian Gulf, called North Field, contains
the world's third largest known natural gas reserves behind Russia
and Iran.
In July 2011, the governments of Syria, Iran and Iraq signed an
historic gas pipeline energy agreement which went largely unnoticed in
the midst of the NATO-Saudi-Qatari war to remove Assad. The pipeline,
envisioned to cost $10 billion and take three years to complete, would
run from the Iranian Port Assalouyeh near the South Pars gas field
in the Persian Gulf, to Damascus in Syria via Iraq territory. The
agreement would make Syria the center of assembly and production in
conjunction with the reserves of Lebanon. This is a geopolitically
strategic space that geographically opens for the first time,
extending from Iran to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.[5] As Asia Times
correspondent Pepe Escobar put it, "The Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline -
if it's ever built - would solidify a predominantly Shi'ite axis
through an economic, steel umbilical cord."[6]
Shortly after signing with Iran and Iraq, on August 16, 2011, Bashar
al-Assad's Syrian Ministry of Oil announced the discovery of a gas
well in the Area of Qarah in the Central Region of Syria near Homs.
Gazprom, with Assad in power, would be a major investor or operator
of the new gas fields in Syria. [7] Iran ultimately plans to extend
the pipeline from Damascus to Lebanon's Mediterranean port where it
would be delivered to the huge EU market. Syria would buy Iranian gas
along with a current Iraqi agreement to buy Iranian gas from Iran's
part of South Pars field.[8]
Qatar, today the world's largest exporter of LNG, largely to Asia,
wants the same EU market that Iran and Syria eye. For that, they
would build pipelines to the Mediterranean. Here is where getting
rid of the pro-Iran Assad is essential. In 2009 Qatar approached
Bashar al-Assad to propose construction of a gas pipeline from Qatar's
north Field through Syria on to Turkey and to the EU. Assad refused,
citing Syria's long friendly relations with Russia and Gazprom. That
refusal combined with the Iran-Iraq-Syria gas pipeline agreement
in 2011 ignited the full-scale Saudi and Qatari assault on Assad's
power, financing al Qaeda terrorists, recruits of Jihadist fanatics
willing to kill Alawite and Shi'ite "infidels" for $100 a month and a
Kalishnikov. The Washington neo-conservative warhawks in and around
the Obama White House, along with their allies in the right-wing
Netanyahu government, were cheering from the bleachers as Syria went
up in flames after spring 2011.
Today the US-backed wars in Ukraine and in Syria are but two fronts
in the same strategic war to cripple Russia and China and to rupture
any Eurasian counter-pole to a US-controlled New World Order. In
each, control of energy pipelines, this time primarily of natural gas
pipelines--from Russia to the EU via Ukraine and from Iran and Syria
to the EU via Syria--is the strategic goal. The true aim of the US and
Israel backed ISIS is to give the pretext for bombing Assad's vital
grain silos and oil refineries to cripple the economy in preparation
for a "Ghaddafi-"style elimination of Russia and China and Iran-ally
Bashar al-Assad.
In a narrow sense, as Washington neo-conservatives see it, who controls
Syria could control the Middle East. And from Syria, gateway to Asia,
he will hold the key to Russia House, as well as that of China via
the Silk Road.
Religious wars have historically been the most savage of all wars
and this one is no exception, especially when trillions of dollars in
oil and gas revenues are at stake. Why is the secret Kerry-Abdullah
deal on Syria reached on September 11 stupid? Because the brilliant
tacticians in Washington and Riyadh and Doha and to an extent in Ankara
are unable to look at the interconnectedness of all the dis-order and
destruction they foment, to look beyond their visions of control of
the oil and gas flows as the basis of their illegitimate power. They
are planting the seeds of their own destruction in the end.
William Engdahl is author of A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil
Politics in the New World Order. He is a contributing author at BFP and
may be contacted through his website at www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net
where this article was originally published.
Notes:
[1] M. Rochan, Crude Oil Drops Amid Global
Demand Concerns, IB Times, October 11, 2014
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/crude-oil-drops-amid-global-demand-concerns-1469524
[2] Nihan Cabbaroglu, Saudi Arabia to pressure Russia Iran
with price of oil, 10 October 2014, Turkish Anadolu Agency,
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/402343-saudi-arabia-to-pressure-russia-iran-with-price-of-oil
[3] Adam Entous and Julian E. Barnes, Deal With Saudis Paved Way for
Syrian Airstrikes: Talks With Saudi Arabia Were Linchpin in U.S.
Efforts to Get Arab States Into Fight Against Islamic
State, Wall Street Journal, September. 24, 2014,
http://online.wsj.com/articles/deal-with-saudis-paved-way-for-syrian-airstrikes-1411605329?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
[4] POGC, North Pars Gas Field, Pars Oil and Gas Company website,
http://www.pogc.ir/NorthParsGasField/tabid/155/Default.aspx
[5] Imad Fawzi Shueibi , War Over Gas-Struggle over the Middle East:
Gas Ranks First, 17 April, 2012.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article173718.html
[6] Pepe Escobar, Why Qatar Wants to Invade
Syria, Asia Times, September 27, 2012,
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32576.htm
[7] Ibid.
[8] F. William Engdahl, Syria Turkey Israel and the Greater
Middle East Energy War, Global Research, October 11, 2012,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-turkey-israel-and-the-greater-middle-east-energy-war/5307902
From: Baghdasarian