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Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone
mrquagmire submits a link to the Jerusalem Post's report that an American reconnaissance UAV has been captured by the Iranian military. "'Iran's military has downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern Iran,' Iran's Arabic-language Al Alam state television network quoted the unnamed source as saying. 'The spy drone, which has been downed with little damage, was seized by the Iranian armed forces.' ... 'The Iranian military's response to the American spy drone's violation of our airspace will not be limited to Iran's borders any more,' Iran's Arabic language Al Alam television quoted the military source as saying, without giving details."
With current downward pressure on the price of energy (supply is up, demand is flat), the best way to boost oil prices is to have some "event" such as an Israeli attack on Iran or some American/Iran kerfuffle. Every time oil prices back off, you will hear the talking heads on CNBC and Larry Kudlow, etc starting talking about how "Israel is going to attack Iran any day now". If you listen to these people, you would have heard at least a dozen times in the past five years that Israel was within a month of attacking Iran. If such a thing should happen, you can bet your bottom dollar it will happen when oil prices are weak.
Interesting that this also coincides with the US becoming a net exporter of energy since Obama took office.
It all seems complicated, but you can't go wrong by assuming the worst about people with money and power.
You are welcome on my lawn.
>* Assassinations of Iranian scientists (the ones we know about: Majid Shahriari, Masoud Ali Mohammadi, Majid Shahriari, Fereidoun Abbasi-Davani (survived), Darioush Rezaeinejad)
So the CIA is not assassinating the religious fanatics who are making Iran shitty in the first place, but assassinating Iran's rational, secular thinkers?
Good fucking going there, CIA. You win the Polack Prize of the Decade.