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U.$. gas prices on the street have plunged more than 10% and prices for oil fell below $70 a barrel in the last week now that Bush has soft-pedalled the Iran nuclear energy crisis u.$. imperialism made up. MIM is going to guess that Iran and the world have made it through a potential confrontation until after November elections in the united $tates. If Bush were to rachet up a crisis now, gas prices would rise.
On August 31, Iran let a UN deadline pass for turning off its nuclear enrichment program-- according to the Western media. MIM has no physical means by which to verify if the imperialists and their media are telling the truth that Iran has continued with a certain nuclear activity.
The UN Security Council met and could have ramped up confrontation with Iran. Instead, Russia apparently said that ultimatums and sanctions would not work,(1) and that matters because Russia has a veto vote in the Security Council. Meanwhile, England said there would be no negotiations until after Iran stops its activities.(2)
U.$. rep in the UN Bolton said he wants sanctions affecting Iran's weapons systems and individual leaders.(1) Previous U.$. sanctions against Iraq killed 500,000 children according to the U.S. Secretary Madelaine Albright who carried them out.(3)
In previous sanctions against Iraq, the United Nations was the justification for sending weapons inspectors to Iraq. One of the inspectors has since admitted that the united $tates took advantage of those inspections to spy on other aspects of Iraq's government. The CIA infiltrated the weapons inspections teams, including with non-Amerikan nationalities. The united $tates always wanted the weapons inspections to fail and created that appearance until it was no longer possible when the united $tates itself became in charge of Iraq.
Notes:
1. Reuters, "Europe wants negotiations with Iran,"
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-09-01T150454Z_01_L31311503_RTRUKOC_0_UK-NUCLEAR-IRAN.xml
2. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aX0_9N1LG1as&refer=uk
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright