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Al-Jazeerah: Cross-Cultural Understanding

News, April 2010

Editorial Note: The following news reports are summaries from original sources. They may also include corrections of Arabic names and political terminology. Comments are in parentheses.

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China Increases Gasoline Exports to Iran After Malaysian Fuel Export Halt

China ups Iran gas sale amid US ire

Press TV, Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:20:26 GMT

Washington plans to target Iran’s energy sector as a means to end the country’s nuclear work.

China’s plans to increase gasoline exports to Iran will effectively thwart US efforts to choke off the country’s energy sector, a recent report reveals.

Forbes reported on Friday that state-owned China National Petroleum Corp.’s trading unit, ChinaOil, has already sent 600,000 barrels of gasoline to Iran in two $55 million shipments.

According to the article, the trading unit of China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec), Unipec, has also agreed to sell some 250,000 barrels to Iran through a third party in Singapore.

The report comes at a time when Washington is exerting pressure to halt Iran’s low-level nuclear activities by targeting the country’s gasoline trade.

A bipartisan slate of US senators and lawmakers, tabled a motion in April 2009 that advocated tough sanctions against countries that sell refined petroleum, including gasoline, to Iran.

The Islamic Republic has been under US sanctions ever since the 1979 Islamic Revolution toppled a US-backed monarch in Iran.

Tehran says Washington has long been using sanctions, which normally pressure ordinary people in a country, as a tool to force independent nations bow to its “illogical demands.”

On Friday, Iranian Oil Minister Masoud Mirkazemi warned that US-led sanctions against Iran will fail to achieve their desired results as the country has managed to become self-sufficient in oil production and products.

Mirkazemi further added that Iran has become “quite the expert in tackling sanctions imposed by Western countries” over the past three decades.

SBB/TG/DT

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Malaysia Halts Fuel Supply to Iran

Press TV, Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:56:43 GMT

Malaysia has stopped supplying gasoline to the Islamic Republic, after alleging that that Iran has not fully complied with the UN nuclear watchdog.

On Thursday, Malaysian state oil company and long-term supplier to Iran Petronas said it had cut off gasoline supplies to Iranian ports since the middle of March.

The move follows stepped up efforts by the US and its allies to impose fresh UN Security Council sanctions on Iran due to the country’s refusal to halt its nuclear enrichment activities.

“We believe in engagement but Iran has to respond as well and there are some clear indications of their non-compliance,” said Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Thursday after confirming that his country had officially ceased fuel supplies to Iran.

However, Najib said Petronas would “certainly” lift its suspension on gasoline supplies should Iran comply with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

In response to a question about Malaysia reviewing the possibility of continuing current projects or entering future joint ventures in Iran, the premier said, “We will see how it goes; we do not want to send the wrong signals.”

“We appreciate the importance of our economic relations with Iran as well,” he said.

Najib asserts Iran’s right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes but said Tehran must comply with the UN Security Council decision and suspend uranium enrichment activities.

The Malaysian prime minister made the remark three days after he held talks with US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of a 47-nation nuclear security summit.

“It’s going to be quite inevitable that additional sanctions will be imposed in the near future unless there is some movement in the right direction by Iran,” Najib told reporters in Washington.

“The onus is on Iran now to react expeditiously to prevent additional sanctions.”

“They must earn the trust of the international community and the only way they can earn the trust is to be fully transparent in whatever they do and allow full verification by the IAEA and there are some serious doubt as to whether this has been carried out or has been complied with by Iran,” he said.

Iran says its nuclear program is directed at the civilian application of the technology. The West, however, accuses the country of having the intention to develop nuclear weapons.

This is while the UN nuclear watchdog, which has conducted the largest amount of inspection in the history of the body on Iran’s nuclear program, has not been able to verify that claim.

Moreover, no country has ever been subjected to more voluntary IAEA inspections than the Islamic Republic.

SF/HGH/MMN

p/s:

Bak kata Nabil, “Lu Pikirlah Sendiri!”
Malaysia berangan bila dah join US dan Yahudi dia fikir dia dah cukup besar! Sedarlah diri sikit Najib oiiii kita Malaysia ni ciput je… nak main dgn gergasi macam Iran… apa lah punya pemikiran PM kita ni!

“At 9pm tonight, I will be addressing the people of Kelantan at the Stadium Sultan Muhamad Ke IV, on the oil royalties that are their sovereign right.” - Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah writing on his blog at http://razaleigh.com/2010/01/28/

Begitu lah kata-kata pendahuluan Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah dalam posting blog beliau sebelum beliau ‘turun padang’ bersama rakyat Kelantan memperjuangkan hak rakyat Kelantan…

Dalam pemerhatian saya, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah amat dihormati oleh hampir rata-rata seluruh rakyat baik di Malaysia amnya dan di Kelantan sendiri di mana beliau menjadi salah seorang pemimpin di sana (Gua Musang). Beliau dihormati bukan sahaja oleh rakan-rakan beliau di dalam UMNO dan Barisan Nasional malah juga di pihak lawan (PAS dan Pakatan Rakyat). Untuk pengetahuan, Tengku Razaleigh juga adalah pengasas kepada Petronas, syarikat yang telah memproses minyak keluar dari bumi Kelantan tapi kemudian kerajaan pusat Barisan Nasional yang diketuai oleh UMNO mengharamkan pula Petronas membayar royalti kepada kerajaan Kelantan.

Di dalam blog http://razaleigh.com/2010/01/28/ Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah telah mendedahkan surat yang dipanggil sebagai ‘SURATCARA – PEMBERIAN HAK-HAK KUASA-KUASA – DAN KEBEBASAN-KEBEBASAN BERKENAAN DENGAN PETROLIAM KEPADA PETROLIAM NASIONAL BERHAD – PETRONAS – OLEH KERAJAAN NEGERI KELANTAN’

Sebelum ini Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah pernah mengeluarkan kenyataan…

Akta Kemajuan Petroliam mempunyai keistimewaannya tersendiri.  Ia telah menyebabkan ujudnya satu perjanjian dalam mana Kerajaan-kerajaan Negeri dan Kerajaan Persekutuan telah sanggup meletak hak selama-lamanya kepada PETRONAS mengenai petroliam yang ditemui sama ada di dalam atau di luar pantai Malaysia.  Sebaliknya PETRONAS sanggup membuat bayaran tunai kepada Kerajaan Persekutuan dan juga Kerajaan-kerajaan Negeri sebanyak 5% daripada nilai petroliam yang ditemui  dan dijual tiap-tiap tahun menurut Perjanjian itu. Bagi Negeri Kelantan, Allahyarham Dato’ Hj. Mohamed bin Nasir, selaku Menteri Besar, telah menandatangani perjanjian ini dan saya bagi pihak PETRONAS telah menandatangani perjanjian yang sama dalam tahun 1975.

Kenyataan ini telah dinyatakan oleh Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah pada 30hb Julai, 2009 apabila membalas surat dari Menteri Besar Kelantan – Y.A.B.  Tuan Guru Dato’ Haji Nik Abdul Aziz bin Nik Mat yang mewakili kerajaan Negeri Kelantan yang disampaikan melalui Y.B. Dato’ Hj. Husam  Musa pada hari Jumaat, 17 Julai, 2009. Kenyataan penuh boleh di baca di blog Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah di http://razaleigh.com/2009/07/31/letter-to-mb-of-kelantan-on-oil-royalties/

dan pada 28 November 2009 pula Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah telah mengeluarkan kenyataan seperti di bawah di blog beliau – http://razaleigh.com/2009/11/28/oil-payments/

That agreement is made out in language simple enough for a schoolboy to understand, in both Bahasa Malaysia and English.

I helped craft and negotiate the Petroleum Development Act. As Chairman of Petronas, I signed separate and identical agreements in respect of these payments with each of the Mentris Besar of the States. I must insist that PETRONAS is bound by them and that the Federal government should not interfere in their fulfillment.

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah

Member of Parliament, Gua Musang

Untuk sesiapa yang terlepas siaran langsung Pidato Royalti Minyak di Kota Baru, Kelantan sama ada di HarakahDaily.Net – http://www.harakahdaily.net atau di Astro Awani baru2 ini boleh lah tonton sebahagian ucapan Ku Li di bawah..

Sebenarnya bila baca semua fakta dan kenyataan-kenyataan dari founder Petronas ini sendiri membuatkan saya terfikir di mana kah sebenarnya maruah kerajaan Malaysia yang sepatutnya telus, ikhlas dan amanah dalam menjalankan tanggungjawab mereka kepada rakyat.

Fakta-fakta di atas telah dengan jelas menyokong hak rakyat Kelantan untuk mendapat royalti dan BUKAN wang ehsan dari Petronas

Apakah kerajaan pusat sudah melupakan hak dan jasa kerajaan negeri Kelantan yang selama ini membantu memartabatkan ekonomi Malaysia?

Fikir-fikirkan…