Hashem Kalentari
Reuters
June 18, 2008

Editor’s note: It should be obvious where this one will lead — Ahmadinejad says the oil crisis is fake and high prices are the result of dollar devaluation. Of course, this will give neocons inside and outside of the corporate media the excuse to proclaim all talk about high gas prices being the result of the devaluation of the dollar as little more than a conspiracy theory — and an antisemitic conspiracy theory to boot.

ISFAHAN, Iran (Reuters) – The market is full of oil and the rising price trend is “fake and imposed,” Iran’s president said on Tuesday, partly blaming a weak U.S. dollar which he said was being pushed lower on purpose.

“At a time when the growth of consumption is lower than the growth of production and the market is full of oil, prices are rising and this trend is completely fake and imposed,” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech.

“It is very clear that visible and invisible hands are controlling prices in a fake way with political and economic aims,” he said when opening a meeting of the OPEC Fund for International Development in the central Iranian city of Isfahan.

Iran, the world’s fourth-largest oil exporter, has repeatedly said the market is well-supplied with crude and blames rising prices on speculation, a weak U.S. currency and geopolitical factors.

“As you know the decrease in the dollar’s value and the increase in energy prices are two sides of the same coin which are being introduced as factors behind the recent instability,” Ahmadinejad said.

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