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Oil and the Mysteries of Iran

Another tangent on the Iranian petro-infrastructure. How easy is it to destroy, and on the flip side; how difficult to rebuild Iran's oil infrastructure? No major oil producer has ever been attacked by a truly modern, powerful military. And no; the Iraqis and Iranians of the 80's aren't what we're talking here. Now while I seriously doubt the Obama folks would do that; Israel is a whole differnt kettle of fish. We constantly hear that the Iranian nuke program would "only be delayed" by an attack. But what of their one cash generating business? Wiping out their oil infrastructure would be fairly trivial for either the US or Israel and there is no real defense. Surely Israeli military planners would prefer to face a future where Iran has as little oil income as possible.

It'll be an interesting 2009 no doubt.