Iran has stopped trading oil in $'s - completely

[dipsydoodle]

according to TV Teletext news here in the UK.

Anyone got a newspaper link ?

edit - I've added a screen shot :

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. ...

:scared:

[RB TexLa]

The Euro can be the currency of oil, we have no right to retain that status for the Dollar

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. bushco might have something to say about that, like bombing them?

:shrug: That's why I used this :scared:

[glowing]

11. Yes, and two carriers in the Gulf.. you have reason to use the emoticon.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. bushco is just looking for an excuse to attack Iran and it looks like he's got one now.

Isn't that one reason we attacked Iraq? Saddam was planning on trading oil for Euros?

[glowing]

16. That and he wouldn't play by the opec rules.. one day he'd decide to

sell for $20.00 another he'd push it up to opec std barrell.. He did whatever he felt like.. also before we went in they owned their own money.. no world bank stuff.. now, they don't.. Iran and Venezuela still do.. which pisses the top 2% off. they can't tell the countries what to do, so they make them a threat.

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. Thanks. Some of that I didn't know about.

[bdamomma]

18. yep I heard the same thing too.

plus Saddam kept on fooling around with price of oil, georgie and dick were not too happy about that.

[glowing]

22. I ran accross some info a while back.. don't ask me where to look for

it now.. that had the meeting minutes of Exxon and a few other higher ups.. they were pissed at sadaam for not going along with manipulation of the "barrell" of oil.. Once Sadaam was taken out, the barrells have soared. Even Chavez plays along with it because it fuels money in and allows him to achieve his popular movement...

ON EDIT: Sadaam didn't really think the US would actually come after him.. He was the dictator that kept the factions at bay. He thought it was postulation.

[bananas]

2. bomb's away...

[Strelnikov_]

3. And they are signing deals to sell our natural gas they are sittin' on n/t

[Strelnikov_]

5. And they are 'aiding the Taliban' per Gates as heard on NPR this AM

The same Taliban they helped us defeat in 2001.

The same Sunni extremist Taliban that make Wahabbists look like Welton Gaddy.

[peace13]

6. In that case there is no need to bomb them back to the cave.

Isn't that what we had been fearing all along?

[harun]

7. Looks like a good business decision to me (n/t)

[ramapo]

8. Watch out

Those are fighting words. Look what happened to Saddam when he moved away from the dollar.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. How soon can the Pentagon get that second aircraft carrier to the Gulf?

Innocent American businessmen are losing money!

[negativenihil]

10. link

http://www.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUSBLA02024820080430

"i got a bad feeling about this..." -Han Solo

[dipsydoodle]

12. Great

Now post that in latest breaking news. Cheers !

[librechik]

14. tit for tat continues

right into the stone age

[Subdivisions]

15. Kaboom. n/t

[bdamomma]

17. oh, oh, I bet that will give Cheney an excuse.

[alfredo]

20. It seemed like when Iraq dropped the dollar, the drums of war

grew louder.

[Diclotican]

21. edwardlindy

edwardlindy

No surprise here. Just wait and se when US are drumming up to a new war.... This time against Iran.. And this time the Administration surten would use the same formula they was using against Iraq.. WMD

But can US this time around dru-mb up enough support, either in the UN or otherwise to get the impression that the US have a just case?... Or Will it be, like a lighting rod, the attack on Iran?

I don't know. But what I fear is that many american sailors this time around would be killed - by advanced russian made missiles.. And I fear it can be a killing field for american forces in Iraq.. If the Iranian forces want it, they can block the Hormuz Strait, and then starve of the american forces in Iraq. Some super tankers, blown up in the Hormuz strait.. And then no transport for US forces in Iraq.. And the regroup would be, at least be difficult because the nabour of Iraq, are possible rather not interesting to have a great deal of american forces transporting in their Country.. Not even Saudi-Arabia are that willing to have maybe 150.000 American soldiers and materiel on their soil... Turkey I guess you can say no-no to.. And then what?...

In asia-times for some time ago, it was a big reportage, of what could happened if United States was going to war against Iran. And the iranian forces close down the Hormuz Streat... No scenario I would requirement for the american forces in Iraq.. Rather it would be a nightmare with thousands of american soldiers killed, And most possible the breakdown of what you would call disiplin... We all know for the antiquity sources how hard it was for the 10,000 greeks who was stranded in the Persian heartland after Alexander the Greats dead. And that many of them died, killed by their former persian friends.. And we all know by history that it was not that many greeks who was coming Home. Even it was just to the sea of the Meditarian Sea.. Today the problems would be much the same. But this time around maybe even worse than in the antiquity. Because this time around, it is not just hors and carries. But rather tanks, and lot of other equipment, who need petrol to drive them.. And if the US armed forces in Iraq was not to have petrol, They would be stranded.... And then, it can be the end of a lot of soldiers, a lot of weapon. And I would not try to comprehend what it would end it, for the US standing in the world... I doubt it would a moral booster for US....

But I guess, Cheney and the others in the american administration have not read their history, never wanted and have nothing to learn... But as all knowledge goes.. If you don't learn from history, you are damed to repeat it, again and again and again.. I was really hoping that the american public had llearn about what a cheating, lying and otherwise corrupt and criminal Administration they have - I guess I was wrong.. I was against the Iraq war, long before it was comfortable. And I am really sad about how many american who are killed in Iraq.

But If US was to attack Iran to... Then I would not be sorry if the american forces was finding them self in a nightmare with no end in sight.. This time the generals, and this Administration have going over their limits.. Yes US are a great country. But I can't understand why american are not rebelling against this administration.. You was rebelling against the dam Brits in 1776 because of some silly taxes on the tea and so on... And Now US would not dear to rebel against this Criminal Administration. And are more inter sting to se how would win a GAME SHOW!!.. US may deserve what they get, if they are just so at sleep....

Diclotican

Sorry my bad english, not ny native language