The West Asian oil and the great powers
By: Sultan, Shabana.
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ArticlePublisher: 2007Description: p.615-28.Subject(s): Petroleum resources
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Indian Journal of Political ScienceSummary: Oil is not only the most important item of the world commerce, it is a strategic commodity. The economic and military machines of the developed countries run on oil which, in most cases, is imported from the Gulf. In the past decades there was an intense struggle between the great powers of the world to grab the oil concessions of the West Asian region, the Palestinian question is the fundamental cause of the oil being used as a political instrument. Today it's America, the super power of the world, which is revolving and revolving around West Asia; it already destructed the whole country like Iraq, killed millions of innocent people, just to have a hold on Iraq's oil only. But it never showed oil as a reason behind the attack on Iraq. America is making strategy to attack Iran, the second largest pool of untapped petroleum in the world, here too President Bush is not mentioning oil as a reason for war with Iran. - Reproduced.
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Oil is not only the most important item of the world commerce, it is a strategic commodity. The economic and military machines of the developed countries run on oil which, in most cases, is imported from the Gulf. In the past decades there was an intense struggle between the great powers of the world to grab the oil concessions of the West Asian region, the Palestinian question is the fundamental cause of the oil being used as a political instrument. Today it's America, the super power of the world, which is revolving and revolving around West Asia; it already destructed the whole country like Iraq, killed millions of innocent people, just to have a hold on Iraq's oil only. But it never showed oil as a reason behind the attack on Iraq. America is making strategy to attack Iran, the second largest pool of untapped petroleum in the world, here too President Bush is not mentioning oil as a reason for war with Iran. - Reproduced.
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