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Six unidentified drones targeted the Bazarkan oil field in the southern province of Maysan on April 4 evening, Shafaq News reported, citing an Iraqi security source.
The attack struck facilities operated by foreign companies within the field, the source told the news outlet, noting that the strike caused material damage but no casualties.
Bazarkan is one of the largest oil fields in Maysan. It is operated by a consortium of international and state-owned companies under a long-term contract with Iraq’s Missan Oil Company (MOC). Among the companies are China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklığı (TPAO).
The American-Israeli war on Iran, which broke out more than a month ago, quickly spread to Iraq, with Iran-allied armed factions there, united under the umbrella group the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, launching retaliatory strikes against bases hosting U.S. forces, the American diplomatic mission in Baghdad and even energy facilities.
Nevertheless, the nationality of the companies operating at the Bazarkan oil field suggest that Iran’s allies were not behind the latest attack.
Notably, the attack took place as the Iranian military announced that Iraq will be exempted from shipping restrictions in the Strait of Hormuz.
The strategic waterway — where roughly 20% of the world’s oil production passes daily — has effectively been closed by Iranian fire since the start of the war.
“Brotherly Iraq is exempt from any restrictions we have imposed on the Strait of Hormuz,” Iran’s military spokesman said in an Arabic-language video statement published by state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.
Bloomberg News said that the declaration has the potential to unleash as much as three million barrels a day of Iraqi oil cargoes. An Iraqi official, however, cautioned that the usefulness of the exemption will depend on whether shipping companies are willing to risk entering the strait to collect cargoes.
The attack on the Bazarkan oil field may have been carried out in retaliation to the Iranian declaration, possibly to keep energy prices up.
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filthy, insidious zionist pedos did this…. and we all know it.
hahahaha no wrong as usual. nice try
are you one whore from public toilet?
hook nose strikes again
you’re so silly and naive and innocent you wouldn’t even know a semite from a barbecue
no, but i know how to barbeque a semite!
oy vey….why do jews behave more like a bacterial colony than humans? deep philosophical questions
parasites. they suck_everything out of everyone. they behave exactly like the organism they actively hide from you… the parasites that cause cancer. it’s an apt analogy too: rid yourself of parasites and then you are healthy.
poisonous maggots.
all birds of a feather flock together like poisonous hate filled genocidal nazi s
they have to be stamped out like the plague.
fucking maggots and parasites.
they were probably going to be allowed to export in yuan. we will not allow it. we’ll burn any company who goes against the petrodollar. fakyeah.
idiot irans obviously being set up to enable the destruction of dependable cheap oil
¿you think? so we have to destroj russian oil too?
who? army of zioshit retards?
who you…….
anyways, where is that fuck hero named ben gvir nowadays?
those who want war not peace and nuclear power not fossil fuel take a wiff
you can also fuckoff with all isisrael chimpanzees, natanahu and co!
expect another false flag in murica such is 9/11 or some nasty shit like that.
echinococus and other parasites must be destroyed for the sake of humanity.
the united states has intention to reopen middle east energy suppliers. it will keep them closed. no rhetoric otherwise can be believed
assume any zio media is a lie. the expanded us defense budget is proof even to the ai trolls
israel is the us attack dog tool for the globalist corporate pirate cartel. israelis are so propagandized they have trouble recognizing gravity and sunlight
suspicious americunt hillbilly peniz enter my anuz daily