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Via Tehran Times (10/27/2009):

The Iranian Oil Bourse was inaugurated on Monday in the Persian Gulf island of Kish as a venue to export oil and petrochemical products.

National Petrochemical Company’s Managing Director Adel Nejad-Salim said in the opening ceremony that all petrochemical products will be gradually offered on the market, IRNA news agency reported.

The oil bourse is intended as an exchange market for petroleum, gas, and petrochemicals in various currencies, primarily the euro and Iranian rial, and a basket of other major currencies.

On February 4, 2008 the Iranian Cabinet approved the creation of the oil bourse in two stages – first for crude and second for oil byproducts transactions.

Iran, having the world’s second largest gas reserves and third largest oil reserves, is trying to play a more active role in oil and petrochemical transactions in international markets .

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Al-Jazeera: Isn’t it naive to think that the US doesn’t have some kind of intelligence operatives on the ground inside Iran?

Brent Scowcroft: Of course we do.

But of course, they would never agitate for regime change in Iran.

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May 27, 2007 – London Telegraph: Bush sanctions ‘black ops’ against Iran

June 23, 2009 – CNN:

Obama also blasted allegations of some in the Iranian government that the United States is “instigating protests” as “patently false and absurd.”

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Times of London – June 23, 2009:

Students are planning a mass demonstration outside the British Embassy in Tehran today, warning that it could trigger a repeat of 1979, when students stormed the US Embassy and held 52 diplomats hostage for 444 days.

Seems to me that western media is trying to turn Tehran into Tiananmen Square while most Iranians would seem to prefer avoiding a repeat of the 1953 overthrow of Mossadeq and subsequent installation of the Shah.

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Seymour Hersh – July 7, 2008:

Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership. The covert activities involve support of the minority Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups and other dissident organizations. They also include gathering intelligence about Iran’s suspected nuclear-weapons program.

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London Telegraph – May 27, 2007:

President George W Bush has given the CIA approval to launch covert “black” operations to achieve regime change in Iran, intelligence sources have revealed.

Mr Bush has signed an official document endorsing CIA plans for a propaganda and disinformation campaign intended to destabilise, and eventually topple, the theocratic rule of the mullahs.

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