Why De-nuking Iran Won't Mean WW3 - or An Oil Crisis
Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 03:40PM Just published here at the British site 'The Commentator' (my first for them) article as titled above. Here's a taster:
It’s an assertion that trips glibly off the tongue of politicians, academics and media pundits. An Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would, they keep telling us, lead to a conflagration across the Middle East, even World War III. So relentlessly is this apocalyptic warning run in the Western media that it has become “received wisdom” more broadly. But it’s an assertion that runs counter to the actual facts. And here’s why.
Iran’s Shia Mullahocracy is not only considered a menacing threat by Israel, Tehran’s nuclear ambitions also scare the living daylights out of its regional Sunni Arab neighbours; not one of whom would rally to Iran’s cause in the event of a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, even by Israel.
Neither does OPEC – which an Iranian hardliner currently chairs – possess the global oil power play clout it once did.
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