U.S. threatens Turkey over energy support to Iran

Source: World Tribune

WASHINGTON — The United States has suggested that Turkey could come under sanctions for its energy cooperation with Iran.

The State Department has criticized Turkey for its agreement for natural gas cooperation with Teheran. A senior official pointed out that Congress was working on legislation that would sanction Ankara or others that help develop Iran's energy sector.

"The U.S. government's policy is that countries should not be stimulating their companies to be involved in oil and gas investment in Iran," Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said.


Read more: http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2007/ss_turkey_09_07.asp

Turkey is a member of NATO, if she is attacked she is entitled to support from nATO--even against an aggressor Amerika.

We can't have drunks with their finger on the nucular button.
Oh wait........

So we don't like the Iranians with their nuclear energy thing. So what do we do? Apply sanctions to a country that would help them with other forms of energy?

If there is any sense in this, please let me know what it is....

in a country threatened by that little hitleresque toad?

before I read your post..I knew that's what you were going to say..

It's Tragic and I feel like fighting it for all I'm worth.

They're intended for me and thee... :scared:

I know!

:toast:

Then start a war with Iran. Chimpy sure is trying to make a U.S. presence in the Middle East a permanent thing. What a douche.

If those Iranians were smart, they'd build some type of energy source that wasn't dependent on imports from other countries. Oh, they could burn their oil, but then what would they sell for exports? Hmmm, now what could Iran build that would supply enough energy to power cities and doesn't require imported fuel from other countries?

everybody now.

The desperation is really starting to smell pretty bad. Especially since the nukes are still sitting in Louisiana.

they're not part of the EEC yet - I don't think he'd try they that stunt if they were so.

Apart from that Turkey controls the terminal for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
oil pipeline. That's the one which runs from the democraticly elected <ha fucking ha - they threw out the election monitors> government of Azerbaijan.

This Just In Dept.
Fit To Print?
by Ben McGrath September 8, 2003

Aficionados of the Drudge Report may have noticed several striking headlines recently linking to stories from the World Tribune, an enterprise with a title as grand and ambitious as it is unfamiliar. One such story last week began, “U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction have finally been located.” The apparent scoop—of stop-the-presses significance—was unsigned, and billed as a “special to World Tribune.com.” The Times, the Journal, and the Washington Post, meanwhile, not only got beat but failed even to acknowledge the news in the days that followed. What gives?

Not everyone ignored it: Rush Limbaugh, for instance. “There’s a piece in the World Tribune today—one of the papers in the United Kingdom—exactly as theorized on this program early on,” he said on his radio show. “It’s unconfirmed, but it’s a story that many of the weapons of mass destruction are at present buried in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon.” Fox News, catering to a similar demographic, enlisted a military analyst that evening to discuss potential ramifications—military intervention in Lebanon?—on “The O’Reilly Factor.” According to the story, the weapons were probably delivered to the Bekaa Valley, a Hezbollah stronghold, in a caravan of tractor-trailers that was spotted leaving Iraq in January, two months before the war began, as part of a multimillion- dollar storage deal between Saddam Hussein and the Syrian government.

In fact, the World Tribune is not published in the United Kingdom, nor is it, to be precise, a newspaper. It is a Web site produced, more or less as a hobby, in Falls Church, Virginia, and is dedicated to the notion, as its mission statement explains, that “there is a market for news of the world and not just news of the weird.” (Nonetheless, the site includes a prominent feature, Cosmic Tribune, with an extraterrestrial focus, and it links to a Mafia journal called Gang Land News.) Its editor and publisher, Robert Morton, is an assistant managing editor at the Washington Times and a former “corporate editor” for News World Communications, the Times’ owner and the publishing arm of the Unification Church, led by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. (Morton and his wife, Choon Boon, are themselves followers of the Reverend Moon.) Among the World Tribune’s other recent half-ignored scoops are that Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for last month’s blackout and that a North Korean defector stressed, during a meeting in July with White House officials, the need for a preëmptive military strike against Kim Jong Il ...

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/09/08/030908ta_talk_mcgrath

I don't get it.