Big oil companies driving war in the Middle East?

THE EDITOR, Madam:

I cannot help but suspect that US and even British corporate interests may be strongly yet covertly encouraging a potential Israeli military invasion of Iran. There is a lot of oil in that country, after all.

I understand that the 1979 Iranian Revolution’s expulsion of major Western nations was largely due to US and British fossil fuel companies exploiting Iran’s plentiful reserves.

Such an expulsion would’ve been a big profit-losing lesson learnt by the foreign oil corporation heads, which they, by way of accessing domestic political – thus military – muscle, would not willingly allow to happen to them again. (Maybe the 2003-11 US invasion of Iraq, and then its oilfields, is an example of this insatiable greed mentality.)

There has been a predictable US-UK proclivity for sanctioning Iran and/or its officials ever since the Iran revolution.

It would be understandable if those corporate fossil-fuel interests would like Iran’s government to fall, thus enabling Big Oil to access Iran’s rich oilfields. It may be that if the relevant oil company heads were in fact against Iran’s post-Revolution government(s), it is likely that so are their related Western governments and, via general news media support, their respective national citizenry.

FRANK STERLE JR

White Rock, BC

Canada