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Iran’s oil cut haunts UK petrol pumps

Iran’s oil embargo on Britain has already driven price of petrol and diesel to an all-time high while the British foreign secretary denies any impact on Britain’s energy security.

The Daily Mail reported on Tuesday that the price of diesel rose to 143.16p per liter while the price of crude oil continues to soar following Iran’s decision to stop oil exports to British and French companies. 

The news about the hike in pump prices came as informal reports by local residents said the price of diesel soared to £1.46 or even £1.47 in some rural areas in the UK. 

Moreover, as the price of oil continues to rise, industry analysts in Britain have predicted that hikes in the price of petrol could be as much as 7p per liter. 

“The rule of thumb used to be that a $2 rise in the price of a barrel of oil added 1p a liter to pump prices,” said a spokesman for AA, which provides British motorists with advice. 

This comes as Brent crude was traded at over $123 per barrel on Thursday and the world’s largest oil trader, Vitol, forecast that the price of crude oil would soar to over $150 per barrel. 

Furthermore, AA reported that the price of unleaded petrol in Britain has risen by 1.5p per liter to over £1.35. 

The all time hikes in the pump prices come as the British foreign secretary William Hague insisted that Iran’s oil embargo on Britain would leave “no impact on Britain’s energy security.” 

Iran’s opportune decision to cut oil to France and Britain delivered the two countries a blow as they were not yet prepared for arranging alternative sources to replace Iran’s oil. 

“They’ve [Iranians] decided to impose their own embargo boycott on the offending powers. And they’re starting with the two biggest imperialist bullies on the schoolyard, the British and the French, who are now so weak that they can only act together. They are a kind of an imperialist bicycle built for two. So, they get slammed first. They haven’t had time to carefully arrange the fallback options and the alternative sources of oil,” said American journalist and historian Webster Griffin Tarpley in an interview with Russia’s English-language news channel, Russia Today.

UN, Arab League name Annan as special envoy on Syria unrest

Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan

The United Nations and the Arab League have appointed former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as the special envoy on the nearly-one-year-old unrest in Syria.

The two bodies said in a Thursday statement that they were ‘grateful to Mr. Annan for accepting this important mission at a critical time for the people of Syria.’ 

Annan "will consult broadly and engage with all relevant interlocutors within and outside Syria in order to end the violence," said the statement. 

A deputy envoy is soon to be named from the Arab region, according to the statement. 

The Ghanaian served two terms as the UN chief from 1997 through 2006. He was called in as a mediator to end deadly unrest in Kenya in 2008. 

Annan will now act under a mandate set out by a UN General Assembly resolution passed last week and the Arab League resolutions on Syria. 

Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011. The violence has claimed the lives of hundreds, reportedly including over 2,000 security forces. 

Damascus blames ‘outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups’ for the unrest, asserting that it is being orchestrated from abroad. 

The West and the Syrian opposition, however, accuse the government of killing protesters.

China boycotts Syria meeting in new snub to West

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei says his country will not participate in so-called 'Friends of Syria' conference, which is expected to gather several western nations and international groups in Tunisia.

Hong said China is not prepared to attend the conference as it needs to further study the aim, effect and mechanism of the conference, and has no idea of the preparations of the meeting. 

He added that China is a friend of the Syrian and Arab nations. 

“China supports all efforts that are conducive to peacefully and properly resolving the Syrian issue," Hong said. 

The senior Chinese official pointed out that China hopes to work with all concerned parties to play a positive and constructive role in the process of settling the Syrian crisis. 

China believes that any action taken by the international community should help end tensions, boost political dialogues, resolve differences and maintain peace and stability in the Middle East, Hong said. 

'Friends of Syria' conference is to be held in the Tunisian capital Tunis on Friday. 

Meanwhile, Russia has announced that it would not take part in the conference. 

Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov on February 22 described the absence of Syrian officials at the 'Friends of Syria' conference as a big blunder by its organizers. 

“Concerning the meeting, we have several questions, especially the composition of invitees. We paid the attention to the fact that there are no representatives of the Syrian government among them. In short, the organizers are planning to discuss issues related to Syria’s serious crisis without the involvement of one of its main players, the Syrian authorities,” Gatilov said. 

“Secondly, on the eve of the meeting, the Western and Arab countries are supposed to meet separately. Supposedly, they will determine the character of discussion at the meeting in Tunisia and even will draft a final document. Russia believes that such an approach is completely unacceptable," he noted. 

“We consider it is incorrect to adopt or draft documents on such an important issue without the involvement of key players of the Syrian crisis. Consequently, we consider that it’s impossible for Russia to take part in the meeting in Tunisia. We have informed our decision to its organizers,” Gatilov concluded. 

Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March last year. 

While the West and the Syrian opposition accuse the government of the killings, Damascus blames ''outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups'' for the unrest that erupted in mid-March, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad. 

In interviews with Israeli news outlets over the past few months, the Syrian armed rebels have clearly expressed their vision for the future of Syria and their interest in establishing relations with the Tel Aviv regime. 

However, Syrian people have repeatedly expressed solidarity with the government.

Iran war fear to set oil market on fire: US energy experts

Fear over the closure of the Strait of Hormuz was the biggest reason why gasoline prices in the US hit an all-time January high in the first month of 2012.

US energy experts say the escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran will prompt a rise in the price of gasoline in the US, stating that a primary 30-cent increase per gallon will be just a beginning for further price hikes.

Gasoline prices have already increased by more than 10 percent over the last two months, following the increase in global oil prices, according to a report published on the CNN website said on Thursday. 

According to the report, several factors, including supply disruptions in a number of oil producing nations, have caused the prices of the energy source to rise, leading in return to a similar increase in the prices of such oil byproducts as gasoline.

“But the biggest factor [behind the oil price upsurge] by far, say analysts, is fear that tensions with Iran will lead to an all-out war that causes a disruption in oil supplies,” the report said. 

"The market right now is fairly well supplied, but you've just got a significant fear factor that things could get worse," said John Kingston, the director of the oil department at Platts energy analysis institute. 

The expert said the fear is that Iran's 2.2 million barrels a day in crude exports could be cut off. 

Other experts maintain that a worse fear is over the possibility that the 17 million barrels a day that flow through the Strait of Hormuz and account for one-fifth of the world's total production could be disrupted in case of a war. 

The AAA Energy Service Company has reported that fear over the closure of the Strait of Hormuz was the biggest reason why gasoline prices in the US hit an all-time January high in the first month of 2012. 

"It's a market that's caught fire. And it doesn't look like there's any circuit breakers to stop it," said Ben Brockwell, an analyst at the Oil Price Information Service, which collects data for the AAA. 

Unless the situation with Iran cools off, he added, and future prices decline, consumers will likely see the 35-cent-a-gallon difference in the form of a similarly paired price hike at the pump in a matter of weeks. 

Israeli officials have recently ramped up their war rhetoric against Iran, threatening the Islamic Republic with military strikes in case the US-engineered sanctions against the country fail to force Tehran into abandoning its civilian nuclear program. 

The United States, Israel and some of their allies accuse Tehran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear program. 

Iran refutes the Western allegations, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has never found any evidence indicating that Tehran's civilian nuclear program has been diverted towards nuclear weapons production.

Vahidi: Israel threats against Iran ridiculous

Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi has severely criticized Israeli military threats against Iran over its peaceful nuclear program, saying such saber-rattling is “ridiculous.”

“Zionists make a lot of noise and rhetorically threaten to take military action against Iran but these remarks are ridiculous,” Vahidi said during an address to an international conference in Tehran, held on Thursday to commemorate the martyred commanders in the Islamic world. 

“The Zionist regime is on the verge of dissolution and undoubtedly its [potential military] action against the Islamic Republic of Iran will certainly lead to the disintegration of the occupying regime,” the Iranian defense minister added. 

The comments come as Israeli officials have recently ramped up their war rhetoric against Iran over its peaceful nuclear activities. 

On February 2, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned that if the Western sanctions imposed against Tehran fail to stop its nuclear program, military action against the country must be put on agenda. 

Meanwhile, Israeli President Shimon Peres has reportedly called on Israeli officials to halt their recently intensified war rhetoric against Iran, describing such anti-Iran remarks as unnecessary warmongering. 

Peres told the Israeli officials that there is no point in the "unceasing self-intimidation," and that Israel should leave “the Iran issue to the superpowers, first and foremost the United States,” the Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Thursday. 

The report also said that Peres is expected to tell US President Barack Obama in an upcoming meeting that he (Peres) does not believe Israel should attack Iran in the near future. 

On February 5, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu similarly warned ministers from his center-right Likud political party to avoid making statements on a possible military attack against Iran, saying such remarks could be damaging to Israel. 

"The chatter causes extensive damage, puts Israel on the frontline and impedes the sanction efforts," Netanyahu said during a Likud ministerial meeting in East al-Quds (Jerusalem). 

The United States, Israel, and some of their allies accuse Tehran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear program. Washington and Tel Aviv have repeatedly threatened Tehran with the "option" of a military strike against its nuclear facilities. 

Iran argues that as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it has every right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. 

Iranian officials have promised a crushing response to any military strike against the country, warning that any such measure could result in a war that would spread beyond the Middle East.

US soldier Bradley Manning charged with ‘aiding the enemy’

US Army Private First Class Bradley Manning (C), surrounded by US military, leaves a US military Magistrate Court facility during an Article 32 hearing at Fort Meade, Maryland on December 19, 2011.

Former US Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning has been formally charged with involvement in the largest leak of classified information in American history.

A military court at Fort Meade, Maryland, on Thursday charged Manning with 22 counts, the most serious of which is "aiding the enemy." 

The charge is an offense that could bring the death penalty, but the prosecution has said it intends to seek a maximum of life in prison for Manning. 

Manning, however, deferred entering a plea. He also declined to say whether he preferred to be tried before a single military judge or a military jury. 

Manning's civilian lawyer, David E. Coombs, said he would be ready to begin the full trial in April. Prosecutors asked for the trial to be scheduled for early August. 

The 24-year-old is accused of passing hundreds of thousands of military field reports from Iraq and Afghanistan and US diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks between November 2009 and May 2010, when he was serving in Iraq. 

The leak of the military documents shed light on civilian deaths, while the diplomatic cables sparked a firestorm by disclosing the private remarks of heads of state and candid observations by senior US officials. 

The Bradley Manning Support Group described his prosecution as "fundamentally unjust.” 

Manning’ supporters also say the conditions of Manning’s pre-trial confinement have been orchestrated by the government to compel him to testify against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. A grand jury has been convened in Alexandria, Va., to hear evidence against Assange. 

"They seem to be bludgeoning Bradley Manning to accept a plea where he would then implicate Julian Assange," said Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit legal organization based in New York City.