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Iran's primary threat is geostrategic, not nuclear The United States has a dilemma regarding a military option to terminate Iran's nuclear weapons program. Even if U.S. fighter-jets destroyed every single nuclear facility, Iran still could threaten global oil supplies. The reason: Iran's dominance of the Straits of Hormuz. About 40 percent of the world's crude oil shipments pass through the two-mile wide channel. Iranian forces are deployed at the head of the channel. Oman and the United Arab Emirates are located on the other side. The result is that Gulf Cooperation Council states would be at Iran's mercy, since Teheran could easily block the Straits of Hormuz and use its missiles to strike tankers and GCC oil facilities. Within weeks, the rest of the world would be starving for oil and the global economy could be in danger. What's worse is that the longer the United States waits, the more of a hold Iran will have on the Straits of Hormuz. The U.S. Energy Information Administration assesses that oil tanker traffic through the Straits of Hormuz will rise to about 60 percent of global oil exports by 2025. The Iran Policy Committee believes it has an answer. In a policy paper presented in Washington, the committee, composed of leading retired military offices and national security experts, urged the Bush administration to drop the idea of a military strike against Iran. Instead, the panel called for Washington to pursue regime change in Teheran while increasing economic pressure on Iran. The pressure could include a U.S. naval blockade on Iranian exports leaving the Straits. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
