Controlling the sources of oil is not enough. Oil supply is not infinite, and controlling all of it does you no good if other alternative sources of energy are being developed while you are sitting on your wells. This is why ethanol development is being sabotaged wherever it's not under their control, and this is why, above all, they need to establish a monopoly over what is now the second most important source of energy, nuclear power. The problem with establishing this monopoly is that nuclear power is already out there, available to anyone with access to uranium and a little money to invest in development; and since uranium occurs practically everywhere and investments in energy are always a priority in any country, this means that, in theory, anyone can start building nuclear-power plants, and what would they do with all their oil? Not to mention the nightmarish possibility that someone might accidentally stumble upon a viable nuclear-fusion method for energy generation, making even uranium useless, a possibility that increases in direct proportion to the number of people tweaking atoms.
So they need to contain the spread of nuclear technology, and the most effective way to do this is prohibiting it to be spread, and enforcing this prohibition with military force. But they can't do this, because the right to the peaceful development of nuclear technology is enshrined in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, something they foolishly promoted when they thought oil would last forever and were worried only with the spread of military nuclear technology. So how do they go about convincing all NPT signatories to relinquish their rights to nuclear technology and make it their monopoly?
Easy: they pick the least popular kid in the block and accuse him of not playing by the rules while hiding his marbles. They then proceed to confiscate all his marbles and forbidding him to play, with full support from all the other kids. They establish their right to decide who can play and who can have marbles. They set a precedent. In no time they will be renting marbles to the same kids from whom they took them.
They go
after Iran, that unlikeable country ruled by priests of a foreign religion that
happens to be sitting on the world's third largest lake of oil. But it's not
Iran's oil they're interested in, it's Iran's right to develop its own nuclear
technology. And it's not Iran's
rights they want to suppress, it's the
right to nuclear technology that
they want to eliminate. They want to establish a precedent. They want to reform
the NPT to turn certain aspects of nuclear-technology development into
something that will be illegal for
all except themselves, and they want to intrusively verify compliance to
these new rules, enforcing this verification militarily if need be.
They want to make the Additional Protocols
mandatory, so that they can accuse Iran of not abiding by rules that under
current NPT terms Iran is not obliged to observe. They want to establish their right to
force Iran to sign them, under threat of a military attack. They want to
establish a monopoly over the right to set terms to "non-compliant" parties and
they want to be recognized as the sole arbiters of compliance. This is why they
rejected the Brazil-Iran-Turkey agreement so vehemently, and two weeks later ordered the IAEA directors to submit to
Iran the exact same terms they had
rejected, but this time coming from them, not from two meddling upstarts who
don't know what their place is. This is why Russia's FM Sergey Lavrov, after
his country and its partners in the Security Council refused to acknowledge the
results of a negotiation and voted for sanctions against Iran, declared in
Egypt on June 30 that Russia "does not believe in sanctions" and that Russia,
France and the United States hope to hold talks with Iran on the same
nuclear-fuel swap deal they scorned on June 10 when they voted for sanctions
against Iran for not playing by their rules.
They own the marbles, they decide who can play, and when, and how and above
all with whom.
A Poem
A Brazilian poet, Eduardo Alves da Costa, once wrote an hommage to Russian poet Wladimir Mayakovsky, called "On the road with Mayakovsky", that says:
The first night
They approach
And pick a flower from our garden
And we don't say anything.
The second night,
No longer hiding, they
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