{"id":3227,"date":"2011-08-04T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2011-08-04T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T14:00:12","slug":"another_reason_we_need_to_deve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3227","title":{"rendered":"Another Reason We Need To Develop American Energy Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/aug\/03\/iranian-opec-president-revolutionary-guards\">UK Guardian<\/a> reported yesterday that Rostam Ghasemi joined President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&#8217;s cabinet last week and has been approved by the Iranian parliament.&nbsp; Rostam Ghesemi is&nbsp;a senior Iranian revolutionary guards commander targeted by international sanctions.&nbsp; As&nbsp;the new head of Iran&#8217;s oil ministry, he automatically takes&nbsp;over the presidency of Opec&nbsp;(Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), which controls the flow&nbsp;and price of oil around the world.&nbsp; Great.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;As its second-largest crude oil exporter, Iran took the presidency of Opec after 36 years last October and Ghasemi&#8217;s position will give the revolutionary guards a unique opportunity to influence an international organisation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not a surprise to anyone who watches Iran closely.&nbsp; The revolutionary guard plays a major role in all economic activity in Iran.&nbsp; Any westerner doing business with Iran has probably come into contact with the revolutionary guard, although they may not have been aware of it.<\/p>\n<p>This is not good news for western countries.&nbsp; The news underlines the need for western countries to develop their own sources of energy apart from the Middle East.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Guardian reported yesterday that Rostam Ghasemi joined President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&#8217;s cabinet last week and has been approved by the Iranian parliament.&nbsp; Rostam Ghesemi is&nbsp;a senior Iranian revolutionary guards commander targeted by international sanctions.&nbsp; As&nbsp;the new head of Iran&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3227\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}