{"id":17701,"date":"2012-03-05T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=17701"},"modified":"2012-03-01T15:28:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T15:28:28","slug":"the-wikileaks-gifiles-stratfor-predicts-huge-oil-profits-from-attack-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/03\/the-wikileaks-gifiles-stratfor-predicts-huge-oil-profits-from-attack-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"The WikiLeaks GiFiles: Stratfor Predicts Huge Oil Profits from Attack on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

WikiLeaks<\/a> has started publishing more than five million emails<\/a> hacked by Anonymous from the servers of Stratfor, a US intelligence gathering company.<\/p>\n

An email sent by Chris Farnham, senior officer for Stratfor, to an internal unnamed source inside the company titled “Israel<\/a>\/Iran Barak Hails Munitions Blast in Iran” provides details about who would benefit from an Israel<\/a>i attack on Iran, and say such a plan would be motivated by economic factors.<\/p>\n

According to the email, sent on November 13, 2011, supporters of an Israeli-led attack are Russia<\/a>, India<\/a> and Saudi Arabia, while the EU and China<\/a> stand against such plans, mainly for economic reasons.<\/p>\n

“Not many people know that Russia<\/a> is one of Israel’s largest military partners and India<\/a> is Israel’s largest client. If a direct conflict between Iran and Israel erupts, Russia and Saudi Arabia will gain the advantages on oil increasing prices. On the other hand, China<\/a> and Europe are expected to lose from an oil crisis as a result of a conflict,” the email says<\/p>\n

Farnham said that an attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities\u00a0would last only 48 hours and be so devastating it would lead to regime change.<\/p>\n

“Based on Israeli plans, the attack on Iran will last only 48 hours but will be so destructive that Iran will be unable to retaliate or recover and the government will fall. It is hard to believe that Hamas or Hezbollah will try to get involved in this conflict,” Farham wrote.<\/p>\n

The Stratfor analyst then reveals that despite\u00a0claims propagated in the media, an attack on Iran is\u00a0unlikely since Israeli commandos have already targeted major parts of Iran’s nuclear programme.<\/p>\n

“In the open media many are pushing and expecting Israel to launch a massive attack on Iran. Even if the Israelis have the capabilities and are ready to attack by air, sea and land, there is no need to attack\u00a0the nuclear programme at this point after the commandos destroyed a significant part of it.”<\/p>\n

Farnham said an attack would be motivated by economic factors rather than Iran’s nuclear programme.<\/p>\n

“If a massive attack on Iran happens soon, then the attack will have political and oil reasons and not nuclear. It is also very hard to believe that the Israelis will initiate an attack unless they act as a contractor for other nations or if Iran or its proxies attack first,”\u00a0the email concludes.<\/p>\n

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Go to Original \u2013 ibtimes.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WikiLeaks has started publishing more than five million emails hacked by Anonymous from the servers of Stratfor, a US intelligence gathering company. An email sent by Chris Farnham, senior officer for Stratfor, to an internal unnamed source inside the company titled “Israel\/Iran Barak Hails Munitions Blast in Iran” provides details about who would benefit from an Israeli attack on Iran, and say such a plan would be motivated by economic factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}