Iran renews offer to help with Gulf spill

Source: UPI

TEHRAN, May 24 (UPI) -- Iranian energy companies stand ready to help respond to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico if asked by U.S. officials, Iranian oil executives said.

Mehran Alinejad, the director of drilling operations at the National Iranian Drilling Co., said Iranian companies had experience controlling vast oil spills in the region. He told the official Islamic Republic News Agency that technical teams in Iran had "major achievements in oil well capping."

"There is, at any rate, an ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and its negative consequences will affect everyone," he added. "That is why if we receive a suitable response from relevant (U.S.) officials we can examine the issue and contribute to its resolution."

NIDC officials said in early May that Iran was ready to overlook the U.S. push for new sanctions at the U.N. Security Council as there is an urgent need for action in the southern coastal regions.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2010/05/24/Iran-renews-offer-to-help-with-Gulf-spill/UPI-98271274710346/

don't slap anyone in the face America. Iran may have the answer!

:kick: & recommend.

Why not? All the posters saying BP can't or won't do it and somebody else should be brought in....is this an option to you?

:spank: !!!!!!!

they are pretty funny :)

politics takes a back seat to saving our ecosystem.

you can't make war on a country that helps you put an end to a disastrous oil spill, it's a question of priority's don't you know...

reminds me of Katrina when Castro offered the assistance of hundreds of doctors and emergency workers who were packed and ready to deploy within hours, Bush never responded to the offer, preferring to let poor people suffer and die, and Obama will do the same thing, ignore the offer...

please, Mr President, take them up on the offer. It might start dialog in other directions too. Novel thought, Uncle Sam.

Don't know what experience they might have with ocean wells, but it would be foolish to turn down any expertise.