Iranian oil blustering is getting downright Orwelian

I couldn’t but laugh when I read that George Orwel (sic) admitted that Iran has us, and the Strait of Hormuz to boot, perhaps, by the oily short hairs if President Shrub keeps his twitchy finger near the hair trigger of an attack on the Islamic Republic. (How’s that for a boatload of clichés, to boot?)

While discounting (Iranian President) Ahmadinejad’s seriousness in his Wednesday comments about the value of oil, Orwel conceded the oil industry could not do without the 2.5 million barrels that Iran exports daily.

“Ahmadinejad is trying to show his muscle so that the Bush administration can realize the consequences on the oil market of further confrontation with Iran,” Orwel said, adding that he fully expected Iran to threaten to cut off oil if the confrontation with the West continued.

While Ahmadinejad did not say he would use oil as a weapon in his dispute with the West, Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi said last month the oil card was in play.

"If (they) politicize our nuclear case, we will use any means. We are rich in energy resources. We have control over the biggest and the most sensitive energy route of the world," he said, referring to the Straits of Hormuz.

What next? Some Aldus Huxley to warn about Venezuela?