Norwegian Statoil biggest sponsor of Ayatollah regime in Iran

Blood, oil and money. Statoils Vice President, Peter Mellbye told Reuters that He hopes Obama will allow more trade with Iran: «that there might be signs that things are changing».

 

Norway’s oil and gas companies, in particular, are heavily involved in Iran’s energy production. Statoil, Norway’s biggest oil company is currently developing what is known as the South Pars project to tap Iran’s biggest single gas deposit. In a Reuters report (April 2, 2009) Statoil indicated that unless there was «significant sustained improvement in Tehran’s relations with the west», he company would not expand activities.

In addition to Norway’s economic ties with Iran, The Tehran Times reported that in 2008, the Swiss energy group EGL signed a 25-year gas purchase worth over USD 13 billion with Iran. In past years, French based energy companies including Technip Conflext, have built petrochemical plants in the Persian Gulf worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Spain has been negotiating with the National Iran Gas company to construct refineries. Austria, Italy, Turkey, Russia and China are also involved with Iranian energy projects.

The Tehran Times, Iran’s leading international English-speaking daily reported on August 29, 2009, on Iran’s major oil and gas contracts with its European partners. «Iran has been negotiating with over 30 companies from 9 European nations in recent years to carry out energy projects, despite mounting global economic sanctions and political pressures», the article stated.

When US President Barack Obama was named the 2009 Nobel peace prize winner, a tidal wave of reactions emerged from international leaders. Many western European leaders responded positively, with French President Nikolas Sarkozy stating that the award showed that «America had now returned to the hearts of the worlds’ peoples», German chancellor Angela Merkel stated that the award was an incentive to do more for world peace. (New York Times, October 9, 2009)

Nobel Committee chairman, Thorbjørn Jagland, former prime minster of Norway and a Labour Party politician tried to explain that «It could be too late to respond three years from now» to Obama’s call for change. The Nobel Committee further elaborated that it was Obama’s efforts to ease Western conflict with Muslim nations and nuclear disarmament that they found particularly worthy of the prize.

Indeed Mr. Jagland himself is doing all he can to make President Ahmedinejad happy. As the chairman of the board of directors for the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights, he has refused to recognize any human rights for the young Iranian killed by the Islamic regime on the streets of Iran (Manda Zand Ervin, National Review article, October 15, 2009). Other human rights violations committed in Iran also recieve little response from European countries who have no problem publicly condemning Israel for alledged war crimes.

There is a lesser known reason for the Norwegian committee and western Europe’s overall embrace of President Obama’s diplomatic dialogue with Iran. Many European leaders have a vested interest in keeping the Iranian President Ahmedinejad content because of their countries’ involvement in Iran’s oil and gas industry.

It is clear then, why western Europe favors dialogue over military action with Iran and why European leaders favor President Obama’s policies. A hard line stance against Iran’s nuclear arms, one that involves international military action would place billions of dollars of European investments in Iran’s energy production at stake.

While western Europe continues with its economic investments in Iranian energy, and allows President Ahmedinejad the UN platform to spew hatred against Israel and the west, Iran is gaining the momentum to become the nuclear powerhouse of the Middle East. It is time that Norway and Europe place oil aside and respond to President Ahmedienjad’s actions, instead of President Obama’s calls for change. Afterall, Iran’s potential position as a nuclear power could very well bring about chaos and instability, instead of peace to this region of the world.

Source: Sderot Media Center, Reuters.

My comment

The new Norwegian minister of Business and Trade Trond Giske has a major role to play in Statoil. His college, the Norwegian Oil and Energy Minister, is the majority share holder of the Norwegian state, the winner at all annual General body meetings in the oil company.

The Atheist Trond Giske was earlier the Minister of Church affairs, where He exposed him self as an enemy of the Church, the state of Israel and the Jewish People. Now He is more powerful than ever. Now He is capable of supplying the Islamic Republic of Iran with both money and technology. The soon to be tested nuclear bomb of Iran will be used in a bid to destroy the Jewish state of Israel.

The people of Norway do not know the truth. They are not told by their own media about the evil that Statoil is involved in. Christians in Norway should rebuke their own oil company and their own Government. Because the leaders of Norway has placed their nation under the coming Judgment when Jesus the Messiah is returning to Earth.

First Published: 26.10.09.