The big influence of Big Oil interests

I'm definitely not fan of

Iran's oppressive rulers, but were they really expected to not retaliate against Israel's bombing/destruction of the Iranian embassy in Damascus that killed, among others, two senior Iranian generals?

Is there really that great of a misplaced sense of Israeli — and, by extension, American — entitlement? Regardless, judging from recent history, additional Western sanctions will likely be slapped on Iran for retaliating.

In fact, there has been a predictable proclivity of the U.S. and U.K., in particular, for sanctioning Iran and/ or its officials ever since the Iranian Revolution. The revolution's expulsion of major Western nations was largely due to U.S. corporate interests further exploiting Iran's plentiful fossil fuel resources.

Such an expulsion would have been a big profit-losing lesson learned by the foreign-nation oil corporation heads, which, by way of accessing domestic political thus military muscle, would not willingly allow this to happen to them again.

Indeed, the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and its oilfields is another example of this insatiable corporate greed mentality. It would be understandable if those corporate fossil-fuel interests would like Iran's government to fall, thus enabling Big Oil to access Iran's rich oilfields.

It may be that if the relevant oil company heads were against Iran's post-revolution governments, so would be their related Western governments and Western society as a whole.

Frank Sterle Jr., White Rock, B.C.