Yesterday Iran attacked one of Romania's Oil Rigs . What do you think of this ?

Question

Ps2: Romania is member of Nato - can invoke war.

Here is the full article
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- A Romanian oil rig off the coast of Iran came under fire from an Iranian warship and was later occupied by Iranian troops, a company spokesman said.

The Iranians first fired into the air and then fired at the Orizont rig, said GSP spokesman Radu Petrescu. Half an hour later, troops from the ship boarded and occupied the rig and the company lost contact with the 26 crew members shortly afterward.

Petrescu said he had no information about any injuries or deaths. The Orizont rig has been moored near the Kish island in the Persian Gulf since October 2005, he told the Associated Press.

Eugen Chira, the political consul at the Romanian Embassy in Tehran confirmed the incident, but provided few details.

"Some forces opened fire. That an incident has happened is true. We have no details or the reason yet," he said.

GSP, also known as the Oil Services Group (Grup Servicii Pe

GSP, also known as the Oil Services Group (Grup Servicii Petroliere), is a private Romanian company established in 2004, which operates six offshore rigs that it bought from Romania's largest oil company, Petrom.

Two of its rigs are operating near the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf as part of a deal signed between Petrom, GSP and Dubai-based Oriental Oil Co.

The Romanian company in Iranian courts earlier this year over a dispute involving another oil rig, Fortuna, the financial weekly Saptamana Financiara has reported. It was unclear whether the incident was related to legal issues.

The Orizont rig was built in 1987 and weighs 13,000 tons.

Kish, in the southern end of the Persian Gulf, houses the offices of about 100 Iranian and foreign oil companies.

Answer 1

Iran shows its violent nature and will to plunder. It is hell bent to challenge Western civilization as its ancestors did against the ancient Greeks and it knows some of the history. It is building nuclear weapons to set itself up as an anti-pode to the United States as the Soviet Union did with its sphere of influence of eastern Europe and parts of Asia. Iran's influnence is in its proxies Hizbollah and Hamas and many numerous Islamofascist jihadist gangs worldwide in semi-moderate -democratic Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia- muslim countries and in taking over influence in sunni countries and in sharia countries Saudi Arabia, and others by demostrating religiousity, and the military power the nuclear bomb would provide. The moderate countries should fumigate themselves using their police and military force against these groups as Turkey has in the past, by destroying similar jihadist groups. America should lead by example by willfully destroying the Iranian regime.
By not acting against Iran, we are encouraging the tyrannical states such as the current Putin regime in Russia, its navy recently killed a Japanese fisherman and captured the fisher's crew. Hamas in lands granted it to Palestinians by Israel shot and shoots rockets at Israel and captured an Israeli soldier. Hezbolah allowed to function in Lebanon started its recent attack on Israel with rockets and captured soldiers accross the border. North Korea tests missiles to be used with possible nuclear weapons. China sympathizes with North Korea. Pakistan fails to prosecute war against the jihadists and Bin Laden Al queda hiding in its border hills attacking India and India's Kashmir. Syria sends weapons into Lebanon and Iraq from Iran. Iran helps shi'ite jihadists sneak IEDs and IED material into Iraq to kill Americans.

Answer 2

No,it can't invoke war...This incident involved two private companies,one from Iran and one from Romania...It seems that the Iranian company had an warrant to take over the rig,but the Romanians refused to leave it and tried to move it out of Iranian waters...The Iranian ambassador in Romania said that there were no fire,but the GSP said it was...Now we are expecting the Romanians home to see exactly what happened...But it seems that it's their fault...We will find out more in the next days as investigations continue...

Answer 3

There's not enough details to really make a decision. Were they operating in Iran's waters, and if so under what conditions/contracts?
Did they violate some sort of agreement or in any way give them a reason to seize the rig?

Answer 4

Not knowing the details, it sounds to me as though the rig had been moved into territorial waters claimed by Iran. Incidents such as this one are not all that uncommon, and little, if anything, will come of it.

Answer 5

Sounds to me like they were being territorial just like this country would be if Cuba tried putting a rig in the gulf