tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169130203475264933.post730412091139059233..comments2024-03-10T22:24:34.032-04:00Comments on Uskowi on Iran - اسکویی در باره ایران: Caspian Summit Ends with No Legal Status TreatyNader Uskowihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02808543185109048956noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169130203475264933.post-89196454060486066062014-09-30T22:33:06.038-04:002014-09-30T22:33:06.038-04:00What about Iran's national interest? Who cares...What about Iran's national interest? Who cares if Russia agrees or not. Russia stole Baku and Azerbaijan from Iran with the Golestan treaty and then stole Turkmenistan from us with their Turkmenistan treaty.Why should Iran agree and receive only 12.5% while Baku puppet state and Turkmenistan receive much larger percentages? Russia is the real enemy of Iran.The best that this anti-Iran regime can do is to stall and not sign that unfair treaty until it is replaced by an Iranian regime that cares for Iran so that it can protect the 50% that belonged to it in the first place.Russia can't do a damn thing about it if Iran has better relations with the West and at the same time significantly improve its economy. During this time Iran can rebuild and move some of its military assets to the north and do some bear baiting and political brickmanship. We must let Russia and those petty dictatorships know that Iran means business.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169130203475264933.post-72169494025717929562014-09-30T17:19:57.413-04:002014-09-30T17:19:57.413-04:00The proposals on the table by Russia and other thr...The proposals on the table by Russia and other three republics would effectively give Iran 13% of seabed resources, and the geography of the Caspian is such that the section that would make up that 13% would contain absolutely the least amount of oil and gas. The only country that has proposed equal shares of 20% is Iran. Hence the impasse. So the debate among the Caspian Five is not between 50 and 20 percent, Iran has never brought up the idea of 50% anyway, but between 20 and 13 percent. If you look at Caspian as a sea, the MML convention applies and Iran will get 13% of the worst place. If Caspian is considered a lake, then it would be divided equally, with Iran getting 20% and some of the oil fields that would otherwise go to Azerbaijan.Nader Uskowihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02808543185109048956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169130203475264933.post-82751038263765656352014-09-30T15:16:42.212-04:002014-09-30T15:16:42.212-04:00The feasibility of Iran controlling 50% of the Cas...The feasibility of Iran controlling 50% of the Caspian Sea is nonexistent, whether it's under this regime or any other. To believe Russia would agree to such a treaty is ridiculous - they won't care about the legality of it if it goes against their national interest - and it obviously goes without saying that neither would Azerbaijan, Turkmeninstan and Kazakhstan.<br /><br />So Iran has a choice - strike a "fair" deal splitting the Caspian equally among the 5 countries or sour relations quite heavily with its neighbours (One of them being quite powerful.).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5169130203475264933.post-38579726848473348202014-09-30T08:55:43.037-04:002014-09-30T08:55:43.037-04:00There should be no agreement made until the collap...There should be no agreement made until the collapse of the islamic theocracy.The original agreement was 50/50 between the old Soviet Union and Imperial State of Iran.It is not Iran's problem when the soviet union collapsed.Iran should keep the original 50% and the rest should be shared between Baku puppet state and other ex-soviet union republics. We must not allow Russia to use Iran's present weakness under this regime and hand us with another Turkmenchay treaty. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com