An ambitious natural gas pipeline project that sought to allow Iran exports to India and Pakistan is effectively dead, according to Pakistani officials who say the Obama Administration forbade them from building it.
India had already bailed out on the plan, but with Pakistan struggling with constant rolling blackouts because of energy shortages, they had long insisted they wanted the plan to finish despite US objections.
The last minute backing out isn’t setting well with Iran, who has virtually finished the part of the pipeline in their country and is now faced with a multi-billion dollar pipeline to nowhere.
Iran’s oil ministry says that Pakistan has signed a contract which obliges them to finish the construction, and urged them to pick up the pace to make up for having fallen behind schedule.
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The Pakistani government is a bunch of cowards….”forbade” in your own sovereign country? It’s a joke…..right?
The Millions of US taxpayer $$$$ dropping into the Pakistani coffers allows the US to believe that they have bought the right to tell them what to do. So, no joke…not right, but no joke – except on the American taxpayer, of course.
The United States is ADAMANT that the oil and Gas belongs to the Anglo Iranian Oil company the one they staged a Coup against a DEMOCRATICALLY elected Government and installed a despotic Dictator, which after years of disappearing people was itself overthrown by a different despotic religious theocracy. Remembering that the Overthrow of the democracy in Iran was he First CIA non intelligence gathering activity, and it was done so that the Anglo Iranian Oil Company NOW KNOWN AS BP could again get their cheap oil from Iran and not pay for it at the proper price, and this plan was Refused permission by Truman but Authorized by Eisenhower, the man who supposedly warned us about the Military Industrial Complex (the reality is he was the major cause of it)
I wonder how the Middle East would be different if the US had not overthrown the Iranian Democratically elected Government way back then, There probably wouldn't have been the Coup where the Ayatollas made Iran a theocracy, The US wouldn't have given Iraq either Chemical or Biological weapons to overthrow the Ayatolla's, hence no reason for Sadaam to Invade Kuwait, and do remember he asked the US for Permission and was told they didn't care if he did, UNTIL the Saudis Became Nervous when Sadaam Parked tanks on the Southern Kuwaiti Border with Saudi, initiating the First Gulf War! Which in turn further radicalized the again CIA trained then so called "FREEDOM FIGHTERS" which included Bin Ladin to start attacking US forces because they were INFADELS in the "HOLY LAND" eventually culminating in 9/11 and Afghanistan and Iraq!
This is what happens because of US interference in other countries and this isn't JUST the only international instance either! There are quite a number of them!
Sadly America's Political Hierarchy STILL doesn't get it, it isn't the Freedom that causes countries to dislike America it is what America does to them first and over decades that radicalizes other countries to dislike America!
it appears pk is receiving US instruction through Saudi and Turkish NATO dictation. The pk military assures the capitulation of sovereignty