Fixing U.S. oil spill is "no feat", say Iranians

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE64M07N.htm

Plugging the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is no great challenge compared to what Iran has dealt with in the past, an official at Iran's drilling company said on Sunday.

A long-standing adversary of the United States, oil producer Iran has offered to help fight the spill -- a gesture unlikely to be taken up by Washington which is pushing for new U.N. sanctions against Tehran's nuclear programme.

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Mehran Alinejad, the head of special drilling operations at the National Iranian Drilling Co., said Iran had successfully dealt with huge oil leaks in the past, particularly when rigs were bombed during a war with Iraq in the 1980s.

"Iranian technical teams have had major achievements in oil well capping compared with which the Gulf of Mexico oil rig is no feat," he told IRNA news agency.

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"There is at any rate an ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico whose negative consequences include everyone. That is why if we receive a suitable response from the officials of that country we can examine the issue and contribute to its resolution."

If this gets out there will be some heads exploding!!

Hey, Iran, we don't need no help. We are the smartest in the whole wide world.
We can handle this. It may not look like we can, but we can.

Or can we? There are some DUers who think that we can't. That BP is the bestest and they are the only ones who can fix this.

Methinks their little heads are gonna explode when they think we may have to get the Iranians to help.

Even when that authority has led the nation to disaster time and time again, they put aside what they can with their own two eyes to support the perspective of the corporation or official body. When they do it by nature is one thing, when they do it to shut down discussion is another. Either way, they're missing the boat.

What works in the desert might not work that far under water. That being said, if Iran really could solve this problem, BP should suck it up and accept their help.

Stopping the oilcano and making friends with people whose oil our betters want to steal.

That would be too Christian like, this putting aside our differences and working toward an end that is good for all.

America is not a Christian nation, is it? They claim it is, well, it isn't is it? If it was they'd welcome the Iranian help. But it won't.

...all things Tea Bagger types are no good at, the message of Love.

The messengers of the message of love would be killed at the first opportunity if the teabaggers would be allowed.

MUCH more descriptive than "spill" or "leak"

:thumbsup:

Unlikely in this administration, impossible in the previous. Still, it's a beautiful thought.

To this administration: Surprise me, make me wrong, please!

Sometimes I think we're only 'international' when it benefits our image to be that way.

The only question would be have these countries ever worked at the depths they're talking about? After all, this will have impact on the whole world, not only the US, especially if they don't do a thing until August/September.

...as it would have been to take Castro up on his offer of help after Katrina.

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It certainly looks like grandstanding. Let them prove it. If they really can help, they should be offering with no grandstanding.

and the holocaust didn't happen

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Aren't you the one who told us to get used to the oil volcano?

That nothing could be done?

You are the one making Obama look bad. He'd laugh you out of his office.

Get used to it is one approach...not a good one but...

:rofl:

We don't get used to fuckups and their fuckups. It's just the way we are.

'We did it', once, with bushco, and it was a failure.

...but the desire to say "see!" is all too obvious.

Well said. I certainly does prove a handy list of those easily fooled or gullible too.

And I say this as one who is still giving the President the benefit of the doubt. I don't see any specific things Obama could have done differently up to this point... However, I will be terribly disappointed if all possibilities are not put in to play in order to mitigate this already God-awful situation. If Iran truly can help, then I hope we take them up on their offer. This disaster is too big to let our differences with them (as huge as they are) interfere with a potential solution.

of need. And they have the equipment and expertise to help. Oh, noes!
How can we bomb the hell out of them when they are helping us? Oh, what to do, what to do?

they have either the equipment or the expertise to deal with this? What expertise or equipment would you think they have that BP wouldn't have? :shrug:

Now answer the question.

The president is quoted as saying we welcome advice from around the world.

Since I am not to familiar with what Iran can and can't do, I am open to hearing what they say. See, that's liberal and progressive. Y'know?

So, why do you hate Iran?

Why do you hate homosexuals and deny the Holocaust? If you support Iran you must believe these things, right?

See -- ridiculous arguments are easy. They're also weak and ethically reprehensible.

You are open to hearing Iran's advice?
Didn't seem that way at first.

Stupidly assuming I "hate" Iran is a ridiculous jump. I have absolutely zero confidence they have any useful advice; if they had anything substantive to offer one would think they'd have already spoken up.

Ya think, maybe?

with either equipment or expertise?

I don't have any idea if Iran can deal with this but it is obvious what profit has to do with the question. Corners are cut all the time in the name of increasing the bottom line. Corners that might have protected us from this and other crises we are facing.

Not having faith in Iran does not mean I'm absolving BP of criminal negligence.

who says we won't take them up on their offer? If the Iranians are being honest with us about their ability to help, what makes some of the Obama bashers so sure we won't take them up on it? There seems to be alot of assumptions being made around here.

Instead of vague pronouncements one would think they'd have something substantive to suggest.

Is it?

That's apparent. They have no ability to deal with this. Words are pretty damn empty.

They sound a little too cocky to me.

Iran offers help in fighting Gulf of Mexico oil leak
TEHRAN, May 3 (Reuters) - An Iranian state company offered on Monday to help in preventing a vast oil slick that is moving towards the coast of the United States, the Islamic Republic's old foe, from causing an "ecological disaster".

Haidar Bahmani, managing director of the National Iranian Drilling Company, said his firm was ready to provide assistance in fighting the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Oil Ministry's website SHANA reported.

Since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank last month, claiming 11 lives, hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude have been gushing into the Gulf, threatening wildlife and beaches.

"Our oil industry experts can curb the rig leakage in the Gulf of Mexico and prevent an ecological disaster in that part of the world," Bahmani said, without giving further details.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKDAH33632420100503

One thing is certain, if that oil gusher isn't stopped soon, the damages could spread to shorelines around the world.

It's one thing to clean up oil spills on land or shallow water. It's entirely another to deal with what we face now. Iran is just blowing smoke and I'm ashamed that any DUers would recommend this.

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Iran's oil patch guys may very well have some helpful knowledge to contribute. It would be stupid to just brush this offer aside.

And what's wrong with making use of an opportunity to nudge relations between our two countries in more cooperative direction? We managed to reach detente with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, after all.

If Iran could help plug the oilcano, it seems to me it would be a positive development all the way around.

sw

any cooperation with potentiality hostile countries, we either now are or might possibly tweak in the foreseeable future.
This shit has got to stop.
The Money God needs to be brought to heel. Stopping this oil leak by whatever means necessary, by whoever can do it, can lead to peaceful relations with our so-called enemies, most of which we being the one who made them the enemy.
Iran says they can stop it, let's at least hear their idea(s). BP doesn't seem to be in real any hurry in stopping it.

Are you calling me a neo-con or the Iranians?

:shrug:

The heads on this haven't figured out anything so more and different ones might help.

If Osama bin Laden has an answer you use it and pardon him for his trouble (I'm not saying he does at all but if he randomly did).

If you've got pride then it better get swallowed.