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Oil CEO on January 13, 2006 - 2:48am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
I've just finished reading through TOD's discussion of our military options on Iran. I was wondering if anybody could provide information regarding the exact location (towns, cities, longitude, latitude) of Iran's major fields and their proximity to their alleged nuclear facilities. I've decided to skip the armchair approach and start planning our first Special Forces mission.
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karlof1 on January 13, 2006 - 3:26am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
This will likely fit the bill: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iran/iran_map.htm
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karlof1 on January 13, 2006 - 4:01am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
It appears that over 1 million folks of Iranian extraction now live in USA, mostly in CA. http://www.niacouncil.org/files/irancensus.pdf
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Oil CEO on January 13, 2006 - 4:17am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
People forget everything about Iran, and like to just dwell on the hostage crisis.

As far as the mid-east goes, the Iranian people are relatively progressive and Westernized. I heard an interview with an American basketball player on NPR the other day. He didn't make the cut of 360, or so, NBA players so where did he go? Iran. Who even knew they had a league?

The best finance professors I ever had were all from Iran.

I believe Simmons himself has commented on how, pre-1979 revolution, it was Iran that bailed us out of our own oil-peak and subsequent Arab-oil embargo.

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ignorad on January 14, 2006 - 5:39am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I guess we are bound to repeat the same criminality that resulted in a "war of agression" against Iraq. Chapter two is in progress. The war jingoing is at a fever pitch. Oh of course, the cheerleadersare the usual suspects: http://www.aipac.org/iran/ (i remember it used to be /iraq but that folder is now gone!!)
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Jack on January 13, 2006 - 3:54am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The USGS site below has maps with oil field locations (second link), although you have to zoom into each province, or blow up the map, to see them.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1997/ofr-97-470/OF97-470G/

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1997/ofr-97-470/OF97-470G/iranmap.html#TOP

Best of luck with your raid Oil CEO. I'll be eager for an update.

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Oil CEO on January 13, 2006 - 4:08am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Thanks for the input, guys. I had almost forgotten about GlobalSecurity.org - one of the bests sites on the web.

I think our best option is and always has been to get the Russians sufficiently concerned to wholeheartedly side with us. Once that is achieved, even if it means bribing them, the Chinese might get onboard a little quicker.

Post Iraq, March 2003 - as much as I hate to admit it - We need the global community in on this one. We can't ignore the French anymore.

Yesterday's talk here of using nukes was completely out of control. Any attack at this stage(which there won't be) would have to be conventional. If you don't know why, you need to trade in your engineering degree for a couple courses on political science.

The only thing wrong with Iran is a leadership that uses religion to control its people.

Occupation is about as stupid a plan as anybody could come up with. We already own Iraq and Afghanistan. Notice any patterns?

In fact the more you think about it, the more you realize the best option is to, well - to just be friends.

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Elizaphanian on January 13, 2006 - 4:00am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
You might find
this also of interest; it was something I dug up when I was wondering how the religious aspect would have a bearing, and shows the relative distribution of shia/sunni compared to where the oil is, but see the first comment in the thread.
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