Time to prep, people.
We knew this was coming with the Zionists running things.
I wish you luck.
prepping always a good thing.Originally Posted by Snowball
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China Restarts Purchases of Iranian Oil, Bucking Trump’s Sanctions
https://www.bourseandbazaar.com/arti...umps-sanctions
the Chinese oil tanker PACIFIC BRAVO began traveling eastward, having loaded approximately 2 million barrels of Iranian oil from the Soroosh and Kharg terminals in the Persian Gulf over the past few days, and is currently reporting its destination as Indonesia, but the tanker was recently acquired by Bank of Kunlun, a financial institution that is owned by the Chinese state oil company CNPC. TankerTrackers.com believes China is the ultimate destination for the oil on board.
PACIFIC BRAVO is the first major tanker to load Iranian crude after the Trump administration revoked waivers permitting the purchases by eight of Iran’s oil customers.
Saudi Arabia may soak up some of Iran’s previous market share on the Indian market as Saudi Aramco is set to ship additional 2 million barrels per month to Indian Oil Corp between July and December this year on top of the existing term supply deal between the two companies.
“We have told them we will be taking 2 million barrels every month for six months from July (about 1.6 million tons in total) and they have agreed,” A K Sharma, Indian Oil’s director (finance), told Reuters on Friday.
Indian Oil Corp has a term deal with Saudi Aramco to buy a total of 5.6 million tons in the financial year 2019/2020, plus an option to buy another 2 million tons, according to Reuters.
More at: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-N...n-H2-2019.html
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‘Iraqi parl. to vote on bill banning US military presence’
http://ptv.io/2jaT
Al-Masdar News
►Iran warns US: 'Our missiles can reach your ships'
https://aml.ink/6xsp4
►Bahrain urges its citizens to leave Iran, Iraq 'immediately'
https://sptnkne.ws/m2DH
RT
‘There will be no war in Gulf region’ - Iran's Javad Zarif
https://www.rt.com/news/459686-javad...-war-comments/
Sputnik
Iran not pursuing war - Revolutionary Guards chief
https://sptnkne.ws/m2RP
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Guy Elster
BREAKING Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) began "enhanced security patrols" in the Gulf yesterday amid tensions with Iran: US Navy Fifth Fleet
Last edited by goldenequity; 05-19-2019 at 10:01 AM.
Given the U.S.’s deployment earlier this month of an aircraft carrier battle group to the Persian Gulf and comments that it may send up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East to deal with any untoward action by Iran, Tehran has been busy trying to build safety buffers through its allies. Having put in place a strategy to try to exploit existing divisions between the U.S. and Europe, Iran has now reached an agreement with the Federal Government of Iraq in Baghdad to expand co-operation between the two countries in the economically vital oil sector, including, critically, the sale of Iranian oil under the guise of Iraqi oil. This trick was first used when the last full-scale international sanctions were ramped up in 2012 but the scope of the new deal far outstrips that arrangement. On the face of it, the most obvious signal of this is the plan announced by National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) director, Ramin Gholampour Dezfouli, last week for the state oil giant to open a representative office in Baghdad. The official line from Iraq’s Oil Ministry is that: “The role of [the representative] office will be limited to technical and engineering services, such as establishing pipelines and engineering equipment, which Iraq favours given their very low prices...It will not involve oil trade.” Oil Ministry spokesman, Hamza Jawahiri, however, did say that the office would also allow for joint organisational work to be done on the 12 fields that Iran shares with Iraq – some of the world’s largest oil reservoirs – and that this type of co-operation is not strictly prohibited under the sanctions that the U.S. re-imposed on Iran late last year.
The reality of the deal agreed between Iran and Iraq, though, runs much deeper. The immediate focus of the co-operation on shared fields will be the huge reservoirs of Azadegan (Iran side)/Majnoon (Iraq side), Azar/Badra, Yadavaran/Sinbad, and Dehloran/Abu Ghurab – a senior oil industry source who works closely with Iran’s Petroleum Ministry exclusively told OilPrice.com last week. The first of these will be South Azadegan, across which the National Iranian Drilling Company announced earlier this month it will drill another 23 wells by the end of the 2020 Iranian calendar year (ending on 20 March). This will add to the 19 wells that it has already completed that are being readied for oil production by Iran’s Petroleum Engineering and Development Company.
There are three reasons why South Azadegan has been chosen as the first focus of the new turbo-charged co-operation deal between Iran and Iraq. From the Iraqi side, more work needs to be done to bolster its side of the reservoir, the supergiant Majnoon field, which narrowly avoided catastrophic damage due to floods in March. The second reason is that for Iran the field has symbolic value in that an understanding had been reached with Total that the French oil giant would develop the field after it had made significant progress on Phase 11 of the supergiant South Pars natural gas field (SP11). Total’s withdrawal from SP11 and from the corollary gentlemen’s agreement that it would develop South Azadegan was the first tangible sign that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) would be undermined by the U.S.
The final reason is that it is a key field in the West Karoun group of oilfields, the economic importance of which to Iran – especially in current circumstances – can barely be overstated. The West Karoun fields - also comprising North Azadegan, North Yaran, South Yaran, and Yadavaran – are conservatively estimated to contain at least 67 billion barrels of oil in place and, even more propitiously, have an average recovery rate of just 5-6%. This compares to average recovery rate across Saudi Arabia of at least 50%. “For every one percent increase in the average rate of recovery across West Karoun, the recoverable reserves figure would increase by 670 million barrels, or around US$34 billion in revenues with oil even at US$50 a barrel,” the oil source told OilPrice.com. “With the right joint development, an increase in recovery rate across the site to at least 25% over a 20 year contract period could be expected to add US$838 billion in revenues for Iran, he added. Currently, West Karoun’s oil output averages 355,000 to 360,000 barrels per day (bpd), with spikes to 380,000 bpd, compared to 120,000 bpd in 2017, according to the Iran source. Of this, South Azadegan is currently producing around 100,000 bpd.
For Iraq as well, the economic benefit is clear. For a long time, there has been growing concern on the Iraq side that Iran has been pursuing a zero-sum game policy in exploiting its part of the shared fields as fears of re-imposed U.S. sanctions mounted, including extensive slant drilling. In addition, Iraq in part blamed the recent flooding around Majnoon on the structural damage done to the area by the erosion of subsoil across over one million hectares of forest and brushland by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a result of its building programmes. Iraq also believes that it was made worse by the redirection of many of the natural water flows through the building of dams and by Iran’s irrigation systems that have been sending clean and wastewater into Iraq for decades.
The key corollary part of the co-operation agreement – which relates to joint pricing and marketing – is also going to be of huge monetary benefit for Iran, whilst bolstering Iraq’s burgeoning status as a top five global oil player. At the most basic level, from Iran’s side, the increased co-operation on shared fields means that it will be impossible for U.S. monitoring organisations to distinguish – and thus sanction - Iranian oil flows from Iraqi oil flows when both originate from the same field. This then will allow Iranian oil – rebranded as Iraqi oil – to make its way unfettered through Iraq’s extensive export channels. This includes China, previously one of Iran’s biggest customers and a customer that is desperate to continue importing its oil.
“Previously, the trick involved Iranian oil arriving at various points along the Iraq border in unmarked trucks, which were then loaded into Iraqi trucks, and sold unhindered as Iraqi oil, but this tactic is much more effective, as the volumes can be exponentially higher,” a senior legal source in Geneva told OilPrice.com. “Even if you knew what was going on – which everyone senior in the oil industry did, including the U.S. – it was impossible to prove,” he added. “Effectively, this means that a vast proportion of all Iran’s oil can be shipped to wherever Iraq oil is welcome, which is every major export destination in the world,” he underlined.
The benefits of joint pricing mechanisms are also enormous. Currently, Iran has no choice because of the sanctions but to sell its oil – including from the shared fields – at massively reduced pricing that is comprised of its official selling price (OSP) minus the sanctions discount minus the incremental risk discount. This has resulted in Iran offering ‘cost, insurance, and freight’ cargoes for ‘free on board’ pricing, with the difference between the two covered by Iran. “Under this new agreement, Iranian oil from these shared fields will be sold based on Iraq’s much higher three month moving average OSP pricing for cargoes, with no discounts at all, and the three month moving average for the effective spot market that Iraq has created and now controls,” said the oil source.
“In sum, this agreement means that Iran will be able to generate twenty to thirty percent more in U.S. dollar terms for the oil from these shared fields than it can from the oil it has to sell sourced from non-shared fields that it can’t redirect to the shared field flows,” he underlined. At the same time, he concluded, Iraq will be able to bolster its presence in the oil trading markets by effectively controlling the price of more oil flowing into the markets and to safeguard its own oil flows from the shared fields. This will give it more chance of achieving the oil ministry’s production targets – 6.2 million bpd by 2021 and 9 million bpd by 2023 – closer to the target dates.
More at: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oi...0-Premium.html
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
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Bolton emerges as flashpoint in GOP debate on Iran
https://thehill.com/policy/national-...debate-on-iran
Guy Elster@guyelster
BREAKING Iran has increased by fourfold the rate of enrichment of low enriched uranium: official on Tasnim news
Yörük Işık@YorukIsik · 4 hod.
Russian Ministry of Defense owned & @USTreasury sanctioned Oboronlogistika’s RoRo Sparta II arrived to Bandar Imam Khomeini Port Iran.
Rockets In Baghdad's Green Zone - False Flag Or Iran Attack?
May 20 - A small rocket was fired in Baghdad's Green Zone (the US Embassy neighborhood) yesterday and the Trump Administration has been quick to take advantage of the apparent attack to blame Iran. Fortunately - and amazingly - the US Administration had enough foresight to order the removal of non-emergency personnel from the embassy beforehand. There was little damage and no casualties, but Bolton is using it to maximum advantage to push Trump toward war. Will Trump bite? Tune in to today's Liberty Report:
Make America the Land of the Free & the Home of the Brave again
“Do They Think That We Are Stupid?”
NATO Official Responds To Trump Administration's Intelligence on "Iranian Threat"
https://www.theamericanconservative....-over-nothing/
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Conflict News @Conflicts
BREAKING: The United States suspects that the Syrian government may be using chemical weapons, including an alleged chlorine attack on May 19 in northwest Syria. - @AlArabiya_Eng
Senate Briefing on Iran
Lucas Tomlinson @lucasFoxNews
Following classified briefing by Pompeo & Shanahan to senators on Iran threat:
Sen. Lindsey Graham: Attack on tankers and Saudi pipeline was "directed by the Iranian government."
Bloomberg @business
Democrats not assured by Pompeo's Iran briefing, say any military action would require explicit congressional approval
Conflict News @Conflicts
BREAKING: The United States suspects that the Syrian government may be using chemical weapons, including an alleged chlorine attack on May 19 in northwest Syria. - @AlArabiya_Eng
Senate Briefing on Iran
Lucas Tomlinson @lucasFoxNews
Following classified briefing by Pompeo & Shanahan to senators on Iran threat:
Sen. Lindsey Graham: Attack on tankers and Saudi pipeline was "directed by the Iranian government."
Bloomberg @business
Democrats not assured by Pompeo's Iran briefing, say any military action would require explicit congressional approval
https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/1130968175695269890
https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/st...53100343291906
https://twitter.com/MiddleEastTon/st...71041046523904
More quotes from... @LindseyGrahamSC
3h3 hours ago
►The threat streams from Iran against American interests are real and severe.
►The Trump administration has shown amazing restraint in the face of escalating aggression from Iran.
►The Iranian-directed attacks on four ships, sabotaging other nations’ pipelines, and the firing of rockets into the Green Zone in Iraq have not yet led to a military response.
►It is clear to me that the Iranians are pushing back against the economic pressure created by the Trump administration.
►The maximum pressure campaign on Iran is working.
►I’m confident that if the Iranians harm one American – in Iraq or anywhere else – they will pay a heavy price.
►The Trump administration will respond militarily and in an overwhelming fashion.
►The Obama-era policy of Iranian appeasement is over.
►The days of Iran killing Americans – without consequence – is over.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Despite criticizing the U.S. decision not to extend any sanction waivers for Iranian oil customers, Turkey appears to be fully complying with the U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing tanker tracking data.
More at: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-N...anian-Oil.html
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
A militia calling itself the Operations of the Martyr Ali Mansour has claimed a May 19 rocket launch that landed in the middle of Baghdad's Green Zone without damaging property or causing casualties, Al Sumaria reported May 21.
Little information is available about the group and it remains possible that it was acting on behalf of a larger militia in attacking U.S. and Iraqi government interests.
More at: https://worldview.stratfor.com/situa...gainst-baghdad
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Houthi forces once again bomb Najran Airport in Saudi Arabia
https://aml.ink/k8MO3 #Yemen
Let's blame Iran...
Last edited by goldenequity; 05-23-2019 at 04:38 AM.
https://twitter.com/Ozkok_A/status/1131433164084264960
Dearest MSM/Pentagon/MAGA, this is a surface-to-air DEFENSE system not AGGRESSION hello?
Don't violate their air space and there's no problem. Set your testosterone levels to 'NORMAL'.
btw...
THIS is not defense.
US Aegis Ashore in Romania may soon be able to fire Tomahawk missiles – military analyst
https://www.rt.com/news/460042-tomah...ssiles-return/
The US is quietly upgrading its Aegis Ashore missile defense site in Romania, possibly to allow it to launch offensive Tomahawk cruise missiles
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
In recent weeks, Iran has been storing more oil onshore and at tankers at sea as it looks to continue producing oil, but its crude exports are severely restricted by the U.S. sanctions, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing industry sources and ship-tracking data.
Iran’s oil exports so far in May have probably averaged just 500,000 bpd or lower, according to tanker data and industry sources, cited by Reuters last week.
This compares to 1 million bpd and even more that Iran exported earlier this year, before the end of all U.S. sanction waivers.
In early May, no tanker was seen leaving Iran for a foreign port, but Iran is believed to have increased the use of the ‘switch-off-the-transponder’ tactic, which makes tracking its exports via the AIS systems increasingly difficult and opaque.
Iran, however, wants to keep pumping crude from its fields because if it stopped extracting oil, resuming production from those fields—many of them ageing—would require a hefty investment.
So the Islamic Republic is storing increasing volumes of its oil on land and at sea.
Iran’s oil storage on land is estimated at 46.1 million barrels out of a total capacity of 73 million barrels, according to data from Kayrros, which tracks oil flows. This estimated volume of oil stored onshore is at its highest level since the middle of January.
At sea, Iran is believed to currently store some 20 million barrels of oil on 16 Iranian tankers, up from 12 tankers with at least 13 million barrels in March, according to data from shipping intelligence platform MarineTraffic, cited by Reuters.
More at: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-N...e-Exports.html
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Dilyana Gaytandzhieva @dgaytandzhieva · 20 hod.
Iran ally Hezbollah is moving its soldiers from Syria to Southern Lebanon near the Israeli border
preparing for retaliation in case of a US attack on Iran.
Hezbollah troops are expected to fully dislocate in 15 days.
Preparations for a huge war are underway.
(this would be huge if true.)
Al-Masdar News @TheArabSource
Iran will not surrender even if bombed – Rouhani
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article...ombed-rouhani/
Guy Elster
BREAKING Trump says he does not think that additional troops in the Middle East are needed for now to counter Iran.
(heh heh @ Swordsmyth)
India has officially ended all oil imports from Iran, India’s Ambassador Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Wednesday, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi has managed to emerge victorious from India’s elections, according to the Daily Mail.
More at: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-N...-How-Long.html
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
The influence of a national security adviser who makes Trump look moderate has even prompted anxiety amongst Republican legislators. Senator Rand Paul – a maverick non-interventionist on foreign policy, but broadly supine in the face of Trump’s decisions – called Bolton “a malign influence on the administration”.
“I think the most important thing is to put the administration on notice that they do not have congressional permission to go to war with Iran and we need to make sure we’re not involved in anything that is provocative enough to encourage a skirmish that leads to a bigger war,” Paul continued.
https://www.france24.com/en/20190524...ollah-khamenei
A new border crossing between Iraq and Syria is under construction in an area controlled by Iran-affiliated militias, Fox News reports, citing satellite images revealing construction works at the Albukamal Al-Qaim border crossing.
The news outlet also cited unnamed sources as saying Iran was behind the new crossing—the old one was destroyed during one of the many military clashes in both Syria and Iraq—and it aimed to use it as a smuggling channel to Jordan and the Mediterranean coast.
“Without Syrian or Iraqi supervision, Iran and its allies would have an unprecedented advantage in transferring whatever they wish,” Fox News reported, quoting unnamed experts.
The tightening grip of Washington on Tehran through economic sanctions was bound to cause Iran to look for ways to get its oil across borders, so in this sense, the news about a new border crossing is a hardly a surprise. Yet it has not been established who exactly is building the crossing despite the mention of Shiite militia controlling the region.
These militias are active in more than one part of Iraq and were allies of the government in its war on the Islamic State.
More at: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-N...l-Exports.html
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Iran prepared to send US warships ‘to the bottom of the sea’ using its ‘2 new secret weapons’, should Washington ‘commit the slightest stupidity’
https://www.rt.com/news/460245-iran-secret-weapons-us/
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Make America the Land of the Free & the Home of the Brave again
Al-Masdar News @TheArabSource
13 min.
Satellite image reveals new land bridge connecting international highway from Tehran to Beirut
https://aml.ink/2Y13G
Make America the Land of the Free & the Home of the Brave again
https://twitter.com/Ozkok_A/status/1131433164084264960
Dearest MSM/Pentagon/MAGA, this is a surface-to-air DEFENSE system not AGGRESSION hello?
Don't violate their air space and there's no problem. Set your testosterone levels to 'NORMAL'.
btw...
THIS is not defense.
US Aegis Ashore in Romania may soon be able to fire Tomahawk missiles – military analyst
https://www.rt.com/news/460042-tomah...ssiles-return/
The US is quietly upgrading its Aegis Ashore missile defense site in Romania, possibly to allow it to launch offensive Tomahawk cruise missiles
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