Holy @#&*()!!- FBI/DEA Thwart plot to kill a Saudi diplomat in the US. The Plotters ? Iranian Government ops

[Ted King]

This is former top Bush Security Advisor Steven Hadley interviewed on Fox Business in mid-July this year:

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/0...-oil-iran/

BOLLING: Sir, I have pointed this out in the past, a scenario that could happen. They tried it in the past. Iran could close off the Strait of Hormuz, that very, very short world oil choke-point, cutting off not one or two million barrels a day but 17 million barrels a day. A very easy put [sic] them to do. What would happen to the price of oil and the American economy?

HADLEY: The price of oil would skyrocket. I am sure you would see more than 200 barrels — dollars a barrel for oil. The economy would be in severe straits. Our military will tell you that in time there will be able to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but it wouldn’t have to be closed very long to have a devastating impact on our economy and the global economy. It’s not just the United States. But the United States is particularly vulnerable because we are struggling and it is of course where we live so we care about it.

Here's a map of what he's talking about - the colored lines are for oil pipelines: