Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
:

If Indonesia were to announce tomorrow that they had made a discovery
of the largest oil deposits in history the price wold fall
dramatically because oil brokers would figure that there would be an
oil glut in a little while.



In 1978-79, I lived in Tehran, Iran. I worked for an American contractor
in the Iranian Air Force SIGINT/ELINT business. We monitored Saddam and
Afghanistan and along the Gulf, while the CIA kept an eye on the Russians
along the northern border from atop the Alborz Mountains.

I got to fly in the mission's C-130's across Iran many times, even though
it wasn't really my job description because I'm a good technician they
lacked. I'd fly every chance I got. When a Richter 7 earthquake hit the
little city of Tabbas, I flew 24/7 for over a week, sleeping on the
airplanes and eating MREs from a can delivering stuff to the refugees to
live on. It was awful. The whole city collapsed just as they were
eating dinner. 25,000 died in seconds.

I'll tell you where new oil is. It's in the Iranian mountains that have
never been walked on in the history of man. Most people have no idea now
VAST this country is. The population is centered around a scattering of
cities with an amazingly wide unspoiled wilderness in between. Iran's
mountains are some of the most beautiful places on the planet, totally
inaccessible on the ground. I sat for hours in the open aft hatch of the
C-130s taking it all in. Too bad cameras were forbidden. If we had
crashed, we'd still be there decades later.

As an example of what's in those mountains, two Americans who worked for
National Iranian Oil flew out to an area with no history looking for more
oil in a helicopter. They didn't find any. But, alas, they stumbled
upon the second largest deposit of virgin COPPER on the planet! Some of
it even laid on the ground! Noone knew of it, before, because in 5000
years noone had ever been there. There's only a shortage of ROADS and
PIPELINES in Iran.....it's why the bankers want America to attack them
next in their conquest for the "New World Order" Orwell described.

Larry
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