Claude Salhani

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• The Implications of the EU’s Lifting Sanctions on Syria’s Oil

  Published 23 April 2013 | viewed 12,015 times

  In an astute political move the European Union lifted its embargo Monday on oil imports from Syria. Actually better make that an embargo lifted on…

• Syria: When is Enough, Enough? When the Oil becomes “Islamized!”

  Published 16 April 2013 | viewed 8,863 times

  The "cruelty and carnage" in Syria, is how the situation in that country has been described in a rare joint statement by the chiefs of…

• Bahrain Places Hezbollah on Terrorist List

  Published 09 April 2013 | viewed 7,615 times

  The tiny Gulf kingdom of Bahrain became the first Arab country to place the Shiite Lebanese movement, Hezbollah, on their terrorist list earlier this week.…

• Egypt Lacks Oil and Sense of Humor

  Published 02 April 2013 | viewed 7,879 times

  Egypt’s economy is in rather bad shape; practically in a shambles. Unemployment is officially placed at 13 percent, though the reality is certainly much higher.…

• When Oil Revenues Go Awry

  Published 26 March 2013 | viewed 8,990 times

  By now it is no great secret that the small, but vastly rich oil and gas producing state of Qatar is playing a major role…

• Lebanon’s Oil Industry Heading into Troubled Waters

  Published 20 March 2013 | viewed 8,965 times

  Oil and natural gas from Lebanon’s yet to be exploited fields in the Mediterranean Sea are heading into troubled waters experts in Beirut predict. Unless…

• New Breach in the Sanction Wall?

  Published 13 March 2013 | viewed 6,674 times

  The announcement earlier this week of an agreement between Iran and Pakistan to build a pipeline between the two countries has ruffled some feathers in…

• Recent Oil Discovery off Lebanese Coast Draws Naval Powers to East Med

  Published 05 March 2013 | viewed 19,888 times

  The discovery a few years ago of an important deposit of oil and gas reserves in the waters just off the Lebanese, Israeli and Cypriot…

• Oil, Much as Weapons, is Dangerous in the Wrong Hands

  Published 26 February 2013 | viewed 10,455 times

  The discovery of oil in the Middle East around the 1930s has had a drastic effect on the lives of the people in the region. …

• Americans Paying European Prices for Oil?

  Published 19 February 2013 | viewed 11,474 times

  Oh, how I miss the days of Bill Clinton’s presidency when the price of gas at the pump was around 99 cents per gallon. Yes,…

• Syria, L'Enfant Terrible of Foreign Politics

  Published 13 February 2013 | viewed 7,093 times

  Syria today finds itself on the edge of a precipice, on the verge of falling into a deep political, social and economic abyss that could…

• Why is Iran Going Nuclear?

  Published 05 February 2013 | viewed 20,208 times

  Iran is a member of OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. It ranks among the world's top four countries that hold both proven…

• Iran on the Offensive

  Published 29 January 2013 | viewed 14,477 times

  Until now, the Arab oil producing countries of the Persian Gulf, also called the Arabian Gulf, or to those seeking political neutrality, simply the Gulf,…

• Oil, Democracy, and Ideas

  Published 22 January 2013 | viewed 6,707 times

  The French government came up with a catchy slogan during the 1970s oil embargo imposed by Arab member countries of OPEC in retaliation for the…

• A New Middle East Crisis in the Making

  Published 15 January 2013 | viewed 10,917 times

  A demographic time bomb is clicking away in the Middle East with the creation of a new refugee problem as the continuing civil war in…

• Iran's Real Threat to the West

  Published 09 January 2013 | viewed 8,648 times

  Since the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979 much has been said about the threat the mullahs who control the country pose to international oil…

• Syria's Oil Now a Target of Civil War

  Published 31 December 2012 | viewed 6,894 times

  It was only a matter of time before Syria’s oil industry, sagging as it may be, became a target in the country’s civil war, a…

• Hezbollah Sends Warm Greetings on Christmas

  Published 29 December 2012 | viewed 6,902 times

  Hezbollah, the pro-Iranian Lebanese Shiite organization, designated as a terrorist organization by the United States and Israel, posted a Christmas greeting to all Christians in…

• How Relevant is Syria's Oil in the Conflict

  Published 20 December 2012 | viewed 11,215 times

  Syria is among the countries in the Middle East which produces oil, though not nearly enough to be counted as one of the major producers,…

• US Fighting Terrorism with Financial Weapons

  Published 11 December 2012 | viewed 8,222 times

  Forget about fighting fire with fire, it gets messy. Instead, find something as efficient, if not all the more so and that will convince your…