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Video:  The Battle for Oil. Iran is the Next Phase of this War

Michel Chossudovsky, Kuala Lumpur, December 2006

Transcript: The Battle For Middle East Oil. Iran is the Next Phase of this War

It is totally militarized. it’s a region which encompasses some 60% of global oil and gas reserves at least according to the estimates now 60% of global oil and gas reserves is something about 30 times those of the United States of America so we can understand the economic and strategic nature of this region.

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We see of course Saudi Arabia the largest with the largest reserves followed by Iraq with 11% of total oil and gas reserves. Iran is number three and essentially this war is a war of conquest of oil reserves. it’s not the sole purpose of this war but it is certainly one of the key objectives is to secure c control and confiscate of course the resources and assets of the countries under attack.

Iran is the next phase of this war. This is not a rhetorical question it has been confirmed in military documents and press reports.

In this particular case and it’s also an important landmark, Israel is slated to play a direct role in the bombing campaign so that we are evolving from an Anglo-American military operation which is based on the integration of American and British interests in the oil industry as well as in the the military industrial complex to the participation of Israel directly in a military operation directed against Iran.

The preparations for this campaign have already been completed .

I should mention that this involves also the participation of Turkey. There have been joint military exercises which occurred earlier this year and there has been a large stockpiling of both conventional as well as nuclear weapons in preparation for a possible bombing

I’m not suggesting that the bombing will necessarily take place or when it will take place. But it is part of the process of military planning and at this stage the military Alliance is in a state of Readiness and Israel is slated to play the major role in this military operation.

Now if you look at the region and you have an understanding of the geopolitics you’ll realize immediately that if Israel becomes officially part of the military axis– it’s unofficial up to now– immediately what’s going to happen is that the war is going to spread to the entire Middle Eastern region.

We have here distinct War theaters essentially Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. This conflict also extends into Iran and Syria. The entire Middle Eastern region will flare up and we should not exclude the possibility as Helen Caldicott warned this morning that the military Alliance could contemplate the use of [tactical] nuclear weapons.

Why because in the logic of military planning, these [tactical] nuclear weapons have already been reclassified and that means that a three star general could decide reading the military manuals that these are safe for civilians and go ahead and use them and he doesn’t need any permission to do it.

They’re stockpiled they’re there and they are safe for civilians so if they’re safe for civilians I’m going to use them and that is precisely the danger which underlies of course the entire propaganda campaign if we just have one I hope I get through this the next two minutes but I think we should understand that : this is a quote from a document which is called the Project for The New American Century.

It was actually released in September 2000 and it identifies very clearly the ultimate objectives of US foreign policy and Military strategy –bear with me– to defend the American homeland of course against who? gainst the terrorists in fact it’s a pretext to establish the Homeland Security State and the derogation of civil rights across the land but this particular objective which is so clear it says ‘fight and decisively win multiple simultaneous major theater Wars” which means that the United States is from its own statements involved in a war of global conquest, ultimately targeting Russia and China through these simultaneous theater wars as well as what they call constabulary functions which are the functions of surveillance and control through selective bombing ands the sending in of Special Forces and so on so fort.

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The last objective of this PNAC is essentially the development of new weapon systems, nuclear weapons militarization of space, and so on.

So that this is the project and we are told that the war has a humanitarian mandate, that the war is to weed out terrorists and I can tell you from extensive research that first of all Al-Qaeda is a creation of the US intelligence apparatus. It’s extremely well documented. Many of the terrorist attacks are in fact orchestrated by US intelligence.

And in conclusion my recommendation is regime change in the United States of America, regime change in the United Kingdom.

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