and anaerobic decomposition of plankton

Question

لطفاً عبارت فوق را در قالب متن زیر (از نیویورک تایمز) ترجمه فرمایید. ضمناً خود متن و نقشه ی مورد بحث هم خالی از لطف نیست ; و لغت secede در خط آخر هم جالب است :

But to the degree that the current crisis has anything to do with religion, it’s much less about whether Abu Bakr or Ali was Muhammad’s rightful successor and much more about who’s going to control something more concrete right now: oil.

In fact, much of the conflict can be explained by a fascinating map created by M.R. Izady, a cartographer and adjunct master professor at the U.S. Air Force Special Operations School/Joint Special Operations University in Florida.

What the map shows is that, due to a peculiar correlation of religious history and anaerobic decomposition of plankton, almost all the Persian Gulf’s fossil fuels are located underneath Shiites. This is true even in Sunni Saudi Arabia, where the major oil fields are in the Eastern Province, which has a majority Shiite population.

As a result, one of the Saudi royal family’s deepest fears is that one day Saudi Shiites will secede, with their oil, and ally with Shiite Iran.

 

 

Answer 1

آنچه نقشه نشان می دهد آن است که به دلیل ارتباط عجیب بین پیشینه مذهبی و تجزیه بی هوازی (غیرهوازی) پلانکتون ها، تقریبا تمام سوختهای فسیلی خلیج فاری زیر پای شیعیان قرار دارد

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Thanks. Was nice +1.

Also I will await other friends' possible alternative answers.

Answer 2

ارتباط و همدستی و همکاری بین  پلانکتون های تجزیه شده ( بی هوازی )  = نفت و یه گرایش مذهبی در طول تاریخ خیلی جالب بود ;) ممنون از این اشتراک