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Baghdad Says Iran Halted Electricity Exports To Iraq
Oilprice.com ^ | Aug 10 2021 | Charles Kennedy

Posted on 08/13/2021 11:17:45 AM PDT by texas booster

Reduced hydropower output in Iran amid a water scarcity has prompted Tehran to suspend electricity exports to neighboring Iraq, which relies on Iranian power and gas supply, Iraq’s Electricity Minister Adil Kareem was quoted as saying by Iranian Mehr News Agency on Tuesday.

Major Iraqi power plants are dependent on Iranian natural gas supply, and Iraq also imports electricity from Iran, as Baghdad’s power generation is not enough to ensure domestic supply, especially with crumbling infrastructure and 110-plus degrees Fahrenheit in the summer.

Even after the U.S. slapped sanctions on Iran’s energy exports in 2018, Iraq continues to import natural gas and electricity from Iran under a special waiver that the United States has regularly extended to Iraq.

But this year, Iran is also suffering from power shortages and power outages as consumption soars, while power generation has declined.

Earlier this year, Iran banned the use of air conditioning at Tehran’s state agencies as the country looks to save electricity consumption and prioritize electricity supply to homes and hospitals. Tehran Power Distribution Company has said that the use of air conditioners at government agencies in the capital is prohibited to ease the pressure on the electricity distribution network during peak hours.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: energyproduction; iran; iraq; israel; lebanon; syria; waronterror; yemen
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The government is looking to prioritize electricity supply to residential areas and hospitals after Iran’s hydropower generation slumped this year because of a lack of rainfall.

Iraq’s previous Electricity Minister Majed Mahdi Hantoosh resigned in June after cuts to Iranian electricity exports to Iraq led to protests and fears of instability in Iraq over frequent power outages in scorching temperatures.

“We have not received any energy from Iran for a month, and without Iranian gas Iraq would face a disaster,” Iraq’s Kareem said at the end of July.

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi said earlier in July that there was no hope of a quick resolution to the power shortage problem.

Interesting. I had not heard that the drought in Iran was affecting the entire country, and not that Iraq was also hurting due to the lack of internal infrastructure.

1 posted on 08/13/2021 11:17:45 AM PDT by texas booster
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To: texas booster

This should be a lesson for all Americans and businesses who depend on foreign countries to supply us with things absolutely vital to the running of our economy.

Will we learn?


2 posted on 08/13/2021 11:25:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: texas booster

Iraq…..the country is one big oil well and they have to rely on, what was once, it’s former enemy. And we wonder why the country is still a disaster.

About 12 years ago I was on a security detail that took some politicians to a power plant in an area just west of Baghdad. It was built years before and over time, with no maintenance or whittled down to about 30% efficiency. Friends of Saddam got all the power they wanted. Everyone else was lucky to get 4-6 a day.

Well, it was spared JDAMs and we helped get it back up and running to where everyone have at least 18 or more hours of electricity, in addition to fixing their water so they could actually drink the tap water.

No más. Folks like that just can’t get out of their own way and the corruption is ridiculous.


3 posted on 08/13/2021 11:28:34 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: texas booster

After all the billions of dollars we spent, and thousands of lives we lost in Iraq since 2003, they rely on Iran for electricity? Bomb the mother-f*cking place off the face of the earth.


4 posted on 08/13/2021 11:28:36 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: texas booster

Iraq has little to show for all the blood and trillions of dollars America squandered “nation building” there.


5 posted on 08/13/2021 11:32:23 AM PDT by allendale
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To: SeekAndFind
... who depend on foreign countries to supply us with things absolutely vital to the running of our economy.

And yet in the name of diversity, our politicians make agreements with multiple countries ... and in many cases it would be easier and cheaper to just kill off these agreements.

6 posted on 08/13/2021 11:33:23 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: mass55th

“ Bomb the mother-f*cking place off the face of the earth.”

That should be our only response to any place that F’s with us.

And then….say “You want some more? ‘Cuz that’s all you’ll get from us.”


7 posted on 08/13/2021 11:34:41 AM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: qaz123

I used to train employees of an important ME country.

Let’s just say that until the Sri Lankan’s (or Philippino’s) arrived, we just wouldn’t even start the classes.

I never saw it change over a decade.


8 posted on 08/13/2021 11:36:34 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

Preach it.

Personally, I think the Phillipines is quietly taking over the world. As I’m sure you know, the major airports in the ME operate because of them.

Hard working folks.


9 posted on 08/13/2021 11:39:18 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: texas booster

The Sunni- Shia conflict dates back to the early days of Islam .. the Battle of Karbala.. 680 AD.


10 posted on 08/13/2021 11:41:15 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: texas booster

Iraq has the same energy plan as California.


11 posted on 08/13/2021 11:47:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: texas booster

So basically Iraq has turned into California?


12 posted on 08/13/2021 11:49:53 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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... who depend on foreign countries to supply us with things absolutely vital to the running of our economy.

Yep, all as xiden the demented cripples the US oil/gas production while begging OPEC arabs to provide more oil to the US pretty please.

13 posted on 08/13/2021 11:53:45 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Yo-Yo

It is truly amazing that Iraq and California have converged to meet a standard that we used to call “Third World”.

Back in the day CA could look down their long noses at the rest of the world ...


14 posted on 08/13/2021 12:00:49 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: jdsteel

Iraq is NOT our problem.... You want to defend them? Maybe spend another few trillion dollars on nothing? Ask the Afghans...


15 posted on 08/13/2021 12:02:02 PM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's Border Plan: Dump diseased illegals in Florida & other red states to discredit DeSantis )
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To: mass55th

The talk now is about Afghanistan and that absolute disaster it has turned out to be but Iraq may be worse in KIA,disabled and wasted money spent for nothing. It is more Islamic today and dysfunctional/failed state than under Saddam. My National Guard Unit did a tour for a year (replacing 82nd talk about us being the JV team) and it was a total FUBAR sh*tshow of hair raising convoy duty,mortar/rocket/bullet with our name at any time yet mostly boredom,monotony, and no objective but to kill time. I was the “old man” who deployed to Dessert Storm and then this over a decade later.


16 posted on 08/13/2021 12:17:59 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: shanover

Thank you for your service. My mother was born in Canada, and my great-uncle served with the CEF in France in WWI. He was killed two months before the Armistice, and is buried in a British Military Cemetery in France. I managed to tour the D-Day landing beaches in April 2006. Wished I’d had more time to visit my great-uncles grave, but it’s in Wimille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, and I had other places I had to be. I did manage to get his military records and a photo of his grave from Canada.

I had two uncles who served in the U.S. Army during WWII. Both were overseas. My father’s brother died of blood poisoning before I was born in 1947, so I never knew him. He, along with my father, and an older brother came to the U.S. from Holland in 1912 with their parents. My mother’s brother was naturalized at Fort Sam Houston, while on the way to California to board a ship overseas. When he initially enlisted in the Army, they took him up to Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls, and had him walk back over the bridge because they didn’t have an original entry date from Canada for him. He’d been a young boy when he’d come to the U.S. with their mother and his sister...my mother. He died in the VA Hospital in Batavia, NY at the age of 48 in 1964 when I was a Junior in high school. Never knew him long enough to even ask him about his service. Unfortunately, his military record was destroyed in the St. Louis fire. All I have is a copy of a DD-214 that tells me he was honorably discharged.

My only brother enlisted in the Army. Had to get a special dispensation to enlist due to his vision. After they initially sent him to Fairbanks, Alaska, he ended up in Hawaii, and then Vietnam after they reactivated the 25th Infantry Division. He was in Cu Chi ‘66-67’. His battalion was one of the first to be mechanized there. He passed at the young age of 51. He had just turned 22 when he shipped out to Vietnam, and 23 when he came back. He still had another year to do on his enlistment when he came home, so they sent him to Fort Carson, Colorado. He basically sat around for a year, doing nothing, being completely bored. They had initially told him that he’d be training new recruits, but it never came to fruition. The only thing he had ever wanted to his whole life, was be a soldier. Grew up on John Wayne movies, you see. He never talked about his service time, nor did he ever bad-mouth the military, but I know he was disappointed over what happened to him when he came back from Nam.


17 posted on 08/13/2021 12:50:22 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: GOPJ

Perhaps you should re-read my post, and the post I replied to.


18 posted on 08/13/2021 1:27:17 PM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: mass55th
My mother’s brother was naturalized at Fort Sam Houston, while on the way to California to board a ship overseas. When he initially enlisted in the Army, they took him up to Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls, and had him walk back over the bridge because they didn’t have an original entry date from Canada for him. He’d been a young boy when he’d come to the U.S. with their mother and his sister...my mother. He died in the VA Hospital in Batavia, NY at the age of 48 in 1964 when I was a Junior in high school.

Great story - thanks for sharing.

19 posted on 08/13/2021 1:33:27 PM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's Border Plan: Dump diseased illegals in Florida & other red states to discredit DeSantis )
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To: jdsteel

I see your point - but this situation’s not worth the powder to blow them away. Or any other weapon. They can work it out with Iran or not or whatever. If they ever attack the US I’m with you - blow them away.

Until then they’re not our problem.


20 posted on 08/13/2021 1:36:13 PM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's Border Plan: Dump diseased illegals in Florida & other red states to discredit DeSantis )
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