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America's Oil Ambassador, Steven Mann: Making Eurasia safe for U.S. oil companies
According to State Department sources, the United States has laid down an ultimatum
to Iran. However, this ultimatum has nothing to do with Iran's nuclear program.
Former U.S. ambassador to Turkmenistan Steven R. Mann, who is also the State Department's
Special Negotiator for Eurasian Conflicts and Senior Adviser on Caspian Basin
Energy Diplomacy, recently warned Iran against building a pipeline to India. Mann,
who was involved in successful negotiations on the building of the CentGas pipeline
from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
pipeline, travels around central and south Asia helping to negotiate favorable
pipeline and drilling deals for U.S. oil and natural gas companies. However, when
it comes to U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mann strongly denies that they
are being fought for oil and gas. That contention is usually met with stifled
laughter from attendees at seminars and meetings in Washington and Asia.
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