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According to journalist Jason Leopold, sources at former Cheney company Halliburton allege that, as recently as January of 2005, Halliburton sold key components for a nuclear reactor to an Iranian oil development company. Leopold says his Halliburton sources have intimate knowledge of the business dealings of both Halliburton and Oriental Oil Kish, one of Iran’s largest private oil companies.

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News that a ship under contract to the U.S. military had fired shots at two vessels it believed to be Iranian was enough to send oil prices up to $119.55 before coming down to settle up $2.46 at $118.52 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It is feared that a conflict between the United States and Iran would severely cut the flow of oil, driving the price skyward.

 
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Washington, D.C. — Speaking at a Pentagon news conference, Adm. Michael Mullen, who - as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - is the nation’s top military officer, sharply criticized the Iranian government for what he called its “increasingly lethal and malign influence” in Iraq and said that the Pentagon is planning for “potential military courses of action” against Read the full story

American military officials, news organizations give conflicting reports of incident

A cargo ship hired by the U.S. military fired warning shots at two small boats in the Persian Gulf on Thursday, the U.S. navy said. The Westward Venture cargo ship chartered by the U.S. Defense Department was traveling in international waters when two unidentified small boats approached on Thursday. According to American defense officials, security members onboard the ship fired the “warning bursts” with a 50-caliber machine gun and their M-16 rifles after the small boats had come within “a few hundred yards” of the cargo vessel. After ignoring radio messages and a warning flare, the ships turned away only after the warning shots were fired, the U.S. officials said.

Some major news outlets - such as ABC, the BBC, Bloomberg (owned by possible US presidential candidate & NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg) & Reuters - immediately offered headlines linking the ships to Iran. 

However, the second edition of the story from Reuters removed the Iranian link from the headline and inserted the following Read the full story