re foreign media reaction april part of phill hallam baker hallam dscomsa desy de wrote first off they could recognise iraqu s responsibility in initiating the iran iraq war providing technical assistance to iran to get it s oil production back up to capacity would also be a smart move at the moment iran is above it s opec ceiling if they had extra capacity they would use it and bring down the oild price further which is in our interests i agree with most of what phill says except the point about it being in our interests to bring down the oil price consider that both the u s and great britain have domestic sources to partly satisfy their energy needs pricy opec oil impacts both germany japan and many other industrial rivals more than these two in addition the proceeds from the sale especially by saudi arabia kuwait u a e etc are disproportionately reinvested in the u s and g b propping up these economies and further providing an incentive to keep prices from falling too low dan epstein
