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mahmudg is spot on. But let me put it differently so not to

cause offence to our khalifa khamenei fan club here:

Khamenei's Gurads withdraw from this project, as it was outside their "area of experties".

Better? Good. Now calm down, go get your caffe latte from your local star bucks outlet and make sure you do a salavat before taking the first sip. :)

Its about pragmatism

If the UN sanctions are directly targeting the IRGC and its related companies, It seems pretty dumb to keep a gas developing field under IRGC management. Don't ya think?

It creates confusion for  those who believe the IRGC is a private company, afterall how can they leave such a profitable cashflow?

But in reality, the IRGC is a part of the government and it tried to fill in the gap of the lack of foreign investments ( More expertise ) in our gas sector. Ofcourse, they don't even have the experience in this area. It seemed it was a tactical decision to begin with.

The downside of this whole situation is that Iran also competes with Russia for the gas market domination in Europe. Unfortunately, Russians can use this as another carrot stick in international politics.

The very least of such announcement, points to the uselessness of sanctions. When big contracts are involved, sanctions go out the door. It would be interesting to findout out about the contract we signed with Russia. Was there a aerial defense system involved?

Worth keeping an eye on this news.

Nasrallah Military Forum: Keeping up with history

Wasn't that trophy already won by the US armed forces in Iraq and Afghanestan? You don't keep up with world major events, do you?

A little history for our West-residing IRI Groupies. The US wins its wars: American Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican-American War, US Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Gulf War I, and Gulf War ii.

And one loss: Vietnam War.

The IRI fought Saddam, one of the most incompetent military commanders in history, who led a country with much less than half Iran's population and after 8 years and hundreds of thousands of lives needlessly lost due to Khomeini's refusal to end the war (which he called a "blessing") until 1988 (when he was so reluctant to finally end the war that he called it "drinking the poisoned chalice"), the IRI was in the same position as 1980. What a cruel pathetic joke the IRI is. Isn't it so?  :-)

I thought.....

Wasn't that trophy already won by the US armed forces in Iraq and Afghanestan? You don't keep up with world major events, do you?

;-) 

Possibly it has to do with Russian contract

Iran recently signed a 30 years cooperation deal with Russia in energy sector. This means that Iran might want to buy Russian vote in giving them huge projects. This might have to do with it.

Interesting news. Thanks.

Interesting news. Thanks.

because all they know is.....

how to rape, and murder, put people on show trials, etc. all behind closed doors.  shamless people like that have no ability for intelligence, and indusriousness to be able to pull such a project off.  These people have been taught to mindlessly attend mosques and Friday prayers all their lifes.  At some point their worthlessness comes to the surface and this is one of them.  Only simpletons could not consider that surgical attacks will not finish these morons off.

Shifteh jan,This is inportant news item that you are writing a/b

Dear Shifteh, I am glad you asked this question. I saw this news item in facebook earlier. To me, the past few weeks have been critical. Bazar's etesab and now this news item are indications that sanctions are working. Many of us see involvement of Sepah in industry as a negative and now we are seeing how sanctions are forcing sepah to reconsider its involvement. Maybe I am too optimistic but this is good news. Earlier this week, you had a blog about "Shahram Amiri". Timing of "Shahram Amiri" 's recent news might have been an attempt by IRI to counteract all the bad news such as Bazar 's developments and news such as this one.