{"id":964,"date":"2008-01-10T12:17:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T10:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2008\/01\/10\/die-mullahs-schwachen-vom-frieden-sprechen_964"},"modified":"2008-01-10T12:17:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T10:17:20","slug":"die-mullahs-schwachen-vom-frieden-sprechen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2008\/01\/10\/die-mullahs-schwachen-vom-frieden-sprechen_964","title":{"rendered":"Die Mullahs schw\u00e4chen? Vom Frieden sprechen!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Stern gibt heute in der <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/01\/09\/opinion\/edstern.php\">Herald Tribune<\/a> zu bedenken, dass das Teheraner Regime durch den \u00d6lpreis gest\u00e4rkt wird &#8211; der wiederum von Kriegsrhetorik in die H\u00f6he getrieben wird.<\/p>\n<p>\tWer die Mullahs schw\u00e4chen will, sollte also alles tun, um den \u00d6lpreis zu dr\u00fccken und ihre Eskalationsstrategie durch Verhandlungsangebote unterlaufen.<\/p>\n<p>\tZitat:<\/p>\n<p>\t&#8222;Tehran seems unimpressed by administration war talk, perhaps because it has confidence in its navy. Lots of other people are scared, though. Take oil traders. Oil prices used to have a tight relationship with Saudi spare capacity. When capacity went up, prices went down. After two years of escalating threats between Tehran and Washington, however, new capacity no longer calms the market.<\/p>\n<p>\tUnder the old market rules, prices would be $50, not $100. So war talk sends an extra $20 billion a year to Tehran. The Bush administration&#8217;s bellicose rhetoric thus makes a mockery of the president&#8217;s pledge to &#8222;do everything in our power to defeat the terrorists.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\tIf it wanted to honor this commitment, the administration would stop saying things that drive up oil prices. <strong>As it is, the long parade of threats just makes the mullahs richer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tYet they spend their $90 a barrel windfall faster than ever, trying to buy legitimacy with pork. Deeply unpopular, the Iranian regime now relies on constantly rising oil prices for survival.<\/p>\n<p>\tIts spending has quadrupled in the last six years, a remarkable rise that&#8217;s evolved in lockstep with oil prices. Here, at last, is our adversary&#8217;s weakness: <strong>An oil price decline would be a mortal threat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\tIf Bush wants to hit the regime where it hurts, conciliation should become his byword. In the price collapse that would follow, he&#8217;d find a brand new Iranian appetite for negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>\tThis is because, unlike sanctions that might take years bite, <strong>a peace initiative would threaten the mullahs tomorrow<\/strong>. Talking peace, which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will certainly scorn, would also help reformers in the approaching Iranian elections.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Stern gibt heute in der Herald Tribune zu bedenken, dass das Teheraner Regime durch den \u00d6lpreis gest\u00e4rkt wird &#8211; der wiederum von Kriegsrhetorik in die H\u00f6he getrieben wird. Wer die Mullahs schw\u00e4chen will, sollte also alles tun, um den \u00d6lpreis zu dr\u00fccken und ihre Eskalationsstrategie durch Verhandlungsangebote unterlaufen. Zitat: &#8222;Tehran seems unimpressed by administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussenpolitik","category-iran"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Die Mullahs schw\u00e4chen? 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