Iran Foreign Ministry Claims Nuclear Scientist Was Executed By CIA, As Nigeria Strike Talks Collapse
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
01/14/2012
While on one hand we get news from Nigeria that the government and the labor unions have failed to end a labor strike, raising the prospect of a halt of all production in the country which produces 2.4 million barrels of oil per day or roughly the same as Iran exports, we now find out that the US attempt at de-escalating tensions with Iran (following Thursday’s news of an extension in the oil embargo deadline by 6 months – one would almost think Obama realized $5.00 gas may be an issue with the election looming) may have failed massively, and it is now Iran’s attempt to score political brownie points knowing well it has all the advantage. As EA WorldView reports, instead of backing away from last week’s sensitive issue of the assasination of a nuclear scientist, Iran has ripped the scab right off the wound and its foreign ministry has boldly proclaimed that it has “reliable documents and evidence that this terrorist act was planned, guided and supported by the CIA. The documents clearly show that this terrorist act was carried out with the direct involvement of CIA-linked agents.” So the ball is now squarely back in America’s court, and any further attempts at appeasement, such as the embargo extension was perceived as being, will merely serve to make US foreign policy appear even more toothless. Which Hillary will hardly stomach. So we may well be back at square one (only this time with two aircraft carriers in the Arabian Sea instead of just one).
From EA WorldView:
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