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  • "Mr Lee's view of Mid-East events is, I fear, a little inaccurate. Like many of the liberal-minded, he appears to neglect the Muslim anti-Jewish/anti-Dem
    ocracy mindset.

    Mr Lee is just a bit too explicit for comfort writing about Iran's uranium enrichment programme, the peaceful intentions of which most western experts doubt. Hopefully, the following highly comdensed abrridgement of the Iranian theocracy's objectives will reach a few minds.

    Iran's chief objective is to control the oilfields of Iraq, Azerbaijan and eventually Saudi Arabia. Its methods are to infiltrate and subvert oil-rich regions using Shi-ite majorities, where available. A collateral objective being to maintain pressure on Israel using Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Palestine Jihad: all sprung from Iran's 125,000 Revolutionary Guards (sone presently active in Afghanistan supplying the Taliban). A nuclear theeat would be of great use in cowing the oil-rich countries, as it would in forestalling US and Israel in any defence they might provide against 'oil-grab'.

    And Iran is fast becoming increasingly desperate, because its low fertility rate is turning it into a country of elderly dependents, and its oil production is in decline. Its indreasing social pronlems range from female university students prostituting themselves wholesale, to widespread drug addiction and growing crime. This could lead the Ayatollahs to attempt a pre-emptive strike. An Apocalyptic Shi-ite messianism, in serious decline, would likely prefer suicide to dedeat.

    Mr Lee's final suggestion that Yemen, Somalia, Libya and Syria are menaced by Israel and the US, wanting to get control of their oil, is very wide of the mark. Yemen and Syria are not oil producers, Somalia's modest petroleum refining industry is largely closed down; and though Libya is a significant oil producer,it is not a major one. I may be wrong, but isn't the US, Venezuela's main trading partner, importing a fair supply of Venezuela's oil?"
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Nuclear scaremongering

10:00am Friday 30th March 2012 in Letters

A DECADE ago, Tony Blair came out with his claims that Iraq could attack the UK with chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes.

As we now know, this claim was based on fictitious evidence and was used to justify to the British public an illegal invasion of Iraq, which eventually resulted in 1.2 million premature deaths.

Now we have David Cameron claiming that: “Iran’s drive to develop a (nuclear) bomb is a direct threat to the UK.”

What is wrong with this claim? Well, as US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta admitted on February 28: “Iran hasn’t made a decision to develop a nuclear weapon.”

The only evidence so far is that Iran is enriching uranium up to 20 per cent for medical purposes, treatment of cancer, nowhere near the 90 per cent plus for a nuclear bomb.

Besides let’s be realistic, even if Iran wanted nuclear weapons and obtained one, would they attack the UK or anywhere else, knowing full well they would be obliterated?

Iran hasn’t actually attacked another country for 300 years and they have at least twice called on the UN to make the entire Middle East nuclear weapon-free, a motion defeated by the US and Israel.

So why is Cameron making such ridiculous claims which inevitably have the side effect of making gas prices go even higher, just as Tony Blair did before him?

The answer is to support US objectives of controlling the supply of gas, oil and required pipeline locations and ensuring that the US dollar continues to be used for energy trade.

These reasons not only apply to Iraq and to Afghanistan but to the troubles in Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Syria and to the threats made against Iran and Venezuela.

R LEE (Mr), Burford Road, Witney

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