State Department accused of shilling for Iran
Is the U.S. State Department really backing plans that would make Iran Europe’s next major source of natural gas? According to John Rosenthal in World Politics Review, the answer, surprisingly, is yes. Starting last month, the State Department began to openly and enthusiastically back plans for the Nabucco pipeline, a largely European-owned line that will ...
Is the U.S. State Department really backing plans that would make Iran Europe's next major source of natural gas?
Is the U.S. State Department really backing plans that would make Iran Europe’s next major source of natural gas?
According to John Rosenthal in World Politics Review, the answer, surprisingly, is yes.
Starting last month, the State Department began to openly and enthusiastically back plans for the Nabucco pipeline, a largely European-owned line that will bring gas through
The problem with all this enthusiasm, however, is that if Nabucco does indeed “make sense,” the virtually universally held and more or less openly expressed opinion of the key European decision-makers is that it precisely does not make sense without the inclusion of Iranian gas supplies.”
And he could be right. The Nabucco pipeline, as originally planned, would draw on Azeri gas from the Shah Deniz fields in the
Which leaves us with
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