Iranian oil official, Mohammad Ali Khatibi, has just stated that OPEC will not allow oil prices to fall much further.
Iran currently holds the presidency of OPEC. Khatibi says Iran will call an emergency OPEC meeting if oil prices fall too much.
Iran blames the United States, and Europe, for creating highly unstable markets, that do not reflect the true value of resources.
Reports that NATO is now rushing boatloads of fresh rebel fighters from Misratah to Tripoli.
A day ago a Reuters reporter revealed that NATO sent in at least 200 rebels, to Tripoli by sea, at the beginning of the assault on Tripoli.
Reports say the Libyan army has rebels retreating to Tunis.
Bokamash, a boarder town 17 kilometers from Tunis was hit by Libyan government forces, as rebel forces tried to flee across the border.
Abdul Hakim Belhadj, a rebel spokesman in Tripoli, admitted that Libyan government forces still control parts of Tripoli, and rebel forces are suffering heavy casualties.
Rebels had claimed they detained three of Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi’s sons. Now one of those son’s, Mohamed Gaddafi, was rescued by the Libyan army.
Another son, Khamis Gaddafi, is leading the surprise counter attack, and has pushed rebels out of 80% of Tripoli.
I wonder how many people have realized that the western media has reported many times in the past that Gaddafi’s sons were killed by rebels? Now we’re being told the rebels captured them in Tripoli, the very sons that had been killed. And one of those sons is leading a counter attack. One blogger counted 17 previous times the western media reported that Gaddafi’s sons were killed.
Also, the western media has reported many times that Gaddafi has been killed or has fled the country. The most recent western media report said that Gaddafi was in Tunis. Lies, lies and more lies, it turns out that Gaddafi is still in Tripoli, taking part in the counter attack.
U.S. President Obama just stated that he expects the situation in Libya to continue to require NATO forces to help even after Gaddafi is gone.
Obama said they expect fighting throughout Libya to continue after Gaddafi is gone, and U.S. military officials will work with NATO to support the new government of Libya.
The new facilities that are being opened were built years ago, and the reason was because the U.S. and its ally Israel were constantly making threats against Iran, against international law, that they will bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities.”-Seyed Marandi, Tehran University
Iran has begun moving centrifuges and uranium enrichment equipment to underground bunkers. They have already told the International Atomic Agency about the move.
Iranian officials say the move is to try and protect scientists. Already several Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated. Iran suspects Israel or the Untied States of the assassinations.
“They are specifically targeting the areas where international journalists are, to sow panic here. NATO has done all the heavy work. This is a NATO war. They heavily bombed cities west of [Tripoli], they’ve bombed all night, without even 10 seconds of stopping. They have bombed this entire city and NATO landed the insurgents on the coast of Tripoli.”-Mahdi Nazemroaya, independent journalist
The reporter was giving a live report for the Russian media, he said he and all the journalists staying at the Nixos hotel were being shot at by NATO and rebel forces. Gunshots could be heard in his live report from the hotel.
Pro-Gaddafi hotel staff grabbed guns and fought off the rebels: “More members of the hotel staff have returned with guns. Obviously they have been fighting. These are volunteers, not soldiers. They returned with a picture which is not a picture of loss and they are confident.”
Nazemroaya says he and other journalists were told by U.S. and other Pro-western news organizations, like CNN and al Jazeara, not to mention al-Qaeda, or they would be killed. He says many of the “western” journalists are not true journalists, but ‘security guards’ working to intimidate independent journalists.
“I have a feeling that the government is luring the rebels in, allowing them to have fun on Green Square and then very well counter-attacking them.”-Franklin Lamb, director of Americans for Middle East Peace
Russian media says early morning, August 22, Libyan governments tanks began rolling out of hiding places, targeting surprised rebels.
Many of the tanks targeted rebels who were attacking Gaddafi’s military compound. The tanks were joined by Libyan army guntrucks.
More tanks have been spotted at the port of Tripoli. Earlier rebels claimed the Libyan army surrendered. Now rebels say they control only 15%-20% of Tripoli.
Also, a convoy of at least 22 Libyan army vehicles entered Tripoli and took control of the center of the city. They are now erecting barricades.
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, has announced that Cairo recognizes the Libyan Transitional National Council (rebels) as a legitimate representative of Libya.
Not only does Egypt recognize the rebels as the government of Libya, but Egyptian officials have revealed that they have been supporting them from the beginning.
Proof of this is that as many as 38 Egyptians had been arrested by Gaddafi’s forces, after they were caught helping the rebels.
One Libyan rebel official confirmed that the Libyan rebellion is connected to the regime change in Egypt: “We thank Egypt that has helped make this revolution succeed, because the Mubarak regime’s downfall helped Gaddafi’s downfall, for they are allies.”-Abdul Mon’em al-Houni
The Libyan embassy in Japan has replaced the all green flag with the flag of the rebels. Japanese media say the embassy staff reported that the government of Libya had changed.
The flag of the rebels is also the old flag of the Kingdom of Libya, which lasted from 1951-969. The Kingdom of Libya fell because the king was so greedy that most of the oil wealth went to him (as well as European countries) while many Libyan’s suffered. Some accounts show that Libyan’s suffered more under the king, than under Gaddafi.
During the time of the Kingdom, the United Kingdom was the main developer and controller of Libya’s oil. The United Kingdom is currently one of the NATO members bombing the crap out of Libya.
The United States also maintained a huge air base, called Wheeler Air Base, in the Kingdom of Libya.
The rebel’s use of the flag of the old Kingdom of Libya suggests that this is just an attempt by Europe and the United States to regain control in North Africa. After all, even the U.S. Marine Corps hymn mentions attacking Tripoli in the past.