The Saudis have been booking tankers right and left to use as at-sea storage, a temporary ploy that can’t continue much longer, but what it does is enable them to keep production going in the face of lower demand. This is primarily pointed at the Russians, who declined to come to a production agreement in early March, but it’s also pointed at the Iranians, which game may be the more strategically significant one of the two. One unintended consequence of the CoVid-19 problems in China is sharply reduced demand from that country, one of whose principal suppliers is Iran, who are having their own epidemic issues as well as lowered oil income. The Saudis would love to break Iran for a thousand reasons.
Iran has locusts too! The poor heathen bas_ards!
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ACCORDING to Keith Cressman of Locust Watch website of the United Nations, the current widespread locust breeding in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia is an unprecedented threat to food security and livelihood at the beginning of the upcoming cropping season. Pakistan is on the list of hard-hit countries, along with Iran and Sudan.
Reportedly, the military has been deployed in Uganda to spray trees by hand in the morning before locusts take off. Ethiopia, where about 80 per cent of the population relies on agriculture, is facing the worst infestation it has seen in the last quarter of a century. Furthermore, it is encountering cross-border locust migration from Somalia and Kenya.
Pakistan is also facing a similar crisis of cross-border locust migration from Iran. The Covid-19 carriers from Iran, that have caused much havoc in our country, have overshadowed the locust threat to food security here.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1550582