WESTERN OIL COMPANIES BACK IN IRAQ

After 36 years. Exxon Mobil, Total, Shell, Chevron and BP get no bid contracts to drill Iraq's largest oil fields. Friggin' hells yes! Now, I'm not of the opinion that this is why we went there. But since we did do what we did, it's only right we get in there first.

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TOP IRANIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE OFFICER ON THE WEST

I would like to "rassle" this guy...

IRAN NOW BLAMES MOSQUE BLAST ON WEST: MAKES ARRESTS

It would appear that Iran is trying to prepare their citizens for war.

Iran has arrested members of a terrorist group with links to Britain and the United States who were behind a blast at a mosque last month that killed 14 and wounded 200 in the southern city of Shiraz, a news agency said.

Iranian officials had previously said the April 12 blast, in the Shohada mosque during an evening prayer sermon by a prominent local cleric, was caused by explosives left over from an exhibition commemorating the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.

"The blast ... was caused by a bombing by a terrorist group with links to Western countries, especially Britain and America," ISNA news agency quoted Intelligence Minister Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei as saying late on Wednesday.

Five or six people were arrested, including the main culprit who was trying to flee the country, Mohseni-Ejei said. The group was found with weapons and "intended to carry out similar acts in other places," he said.

The minister's remarks echo allegations U.S. officials have made about Iranian support for militias in Iraq that have fought U.S. and U.S.-backed government forces there, accusations Tehran denies.

Here is video from the mosque blast. I don't see no stinking terrorists.