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Jubouri seek the Kurdistan Region to save Kirkuk after the Iraqi government deficit

Jubouri seek the Kurdistan Region to save Kirkuk after the Iraqi government deficit



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The governor of Kirkuk, the agency RAKAN Saeed Jubouri on Saturday to submit a request to the Kurdistan Regional Government to provide the province with electricity, stressing that the Federal Ministry of Electricity is unable to provide electricity for the province because of the constraints encountered, and the Iranian side to cut the line of import from Iraq.

"The problem that the province suffers from is funding, since it has not been funded since last year with one dinar," the governor told a news conference in Kirkuk today. "Kirkuk is suffering from the electricity crisis."

He added that he visited the Ministry of Electricity last week and met with Minister Qasim Al-Fahdawi, saying that "there are significant obstacles to the Ministry of Electricity represented by the low processing of production, and cutting Iran to the import line."

Al-Jubouri said that "in Kirkuk, we made every effort to obtain energy, and we are supplied with electricity is not enough," noting that "we sought through Baghdad to contact the Kurdistan Region we have the maturity of 150 MW in the investor Ahmed Ismail and the last mentioned to us several times that The equipment can not do that for political matters related to the region or the region may need energy. "

He pointed out that he addressed the federal government to pressure the region to allow the investor to fully supply 150 MW, but we did not succeed, "noting that" we held a meeting with energy managers and included the meeting to contact the Ministry of Electricity and we may get them approval to regulate the frequency of the organization of cutting hours. "

The governor said that "I contacted the Deputy Minister of Electricity in the Kurdistan Region and we have been informed that the situation is also in the region with the need for electricity, but at the same time promised to seek to secure 150 MW in Kirkuk."

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Demand for Baghdad more than $ 1.5 billion .. Iran reduces the level of water and electricity exports to Iraq to zero

It was stopped days ago supplying Iraq with electricity ...

 
 

 15/07/2018 - 13:32

 
 
Demand for Baghdad more than $ 1.5 billion .. Iran reduces the level of water and electricity exports to Iraq to zero
 


After confirming his country's commitment to stop exporting electricity and water to Iraq, Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardkanyan said: "We have reduced the level of export of water and electricity to zero, because the continuation of export would exacerbate the current situation in the country on cutting power.

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zangana held a meeting with Iraqi Energy Minister Qassim al-Saadawi, who also met Erdogan, in a new attempt to resolve the "electricity crisis".

The Iranian authorities stopped a few days ago to supply Iraq with electricity, demanding Baghdad to pay more than $ 1.5 billion accumulated debts of electricity bills.

Iran insists that payments should be made in dollars, but the Iraqi government fears that US sanctions will come if it deals with Tehran in hard currency, and in return demands anything but the dollar.

In recent weeks, Iran has witnessed violent demonstrations in several provinces, especially Khuzestan, due to water shortages and power cuts, as temperatures rise.

An Iranian diplomatic source in Baghdad denied any involvement of his country in the demonstrations in southern Iraq. He pointed out that the demonstrators attacked the offices of the parties close to Iran, and Iranian Ambassador Erj Musjidi tried to make contacts to calm the situation.

"The Iranian side stopped supplying the country with 1,000 megawatts of electricity due to the accumulation of debts, which exacerbated the crisis of energy shortage in the country," the Ministry of Electricity announced on July 6. 
"Iran has cut off electricity from Iraq, causing more hours of power cuts in the provinces of Dhi Qar, Maysan and Basra in the south of the country," ministry spokesman Musab al-Mudar told a news briefing. 
The teacher added that "the reason for the cut is due to the accumulation of debt incurred by Iraq from the import of Iranian electricity," the ministry spokesman did not disclose the value of the debts of Iraq. 

The resentment of citizens over the government in the summer, with repeated interruptions in the network in conjunction with the rise of temperatures to reach some days to more than 50 degrees Celsius.

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5 minutes ago, KDuesing said:

I hope this is a lesson to Abadi to stop relying on outside sources for electricity, where they can be used against them whenever Iran sees fit.

The only problem is if the money was allocated to build a new electric plant, the money would just disappear into the polititions pockets. 

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Iraq 's economy fails to persuade Iran to supply electricity and declares an alternative plan

Iraq fails to persuade Iran to supply electricity and declares an alternative plan
 
 
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"The failure of the delegation headed to the Iranian capital Tehran to persuade the Iranian side to continue to supply Iraq with electricity through the lines of import.

In a statement issued by the ministry, Fahdawi said the ministry had drawn up an alternative plan to import electricity from Iran after the Iranian side declared it was unable to return the four import lines back to service.

A ministerial delegation headed by Minister of Electricity Qassim Mohammad Fahdawi arrived in Tehran on Friday for a number of high-level meetings with Iranian government officials in general and officials of the Iranian Ministry of Energy in particular to discuss the re-importation of electric power lines from Iran, To work.

Iran had suspended the import line to the southern provinces a month ago for reasons related to the transfer of due amounts, as well as other technical reasons.

 
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Iraq announces alternative plan after failing to convince Iran to supply electricity
 
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TEHRAN: Iranian Minister of Electricity Qasem Mohammad al-Fahdawi said Monday that the delegation headed to the Iranian capital Tehran failed to persuade the Iranian side to continue supplying Iraq with electricity through the import lines. 
In a statement issued by the ministry, Al-Fahdawi said that the ministry had put an alternative plan for the import of electricity from Iran after the Iranian side announced that it could not return the four import lines to service again. 
A ministerial delegation headed by Minister of Electricity Qassim Mohammad Fahdawi arrived in Tehran on Friday for a number of high-level meetings with Iranian government officials in general and officials of the Iranian Ministry of Energy in particular to discuss the re-importation of electric power lines from Iran, To work.
Iran had suspended the import line to the southern provinces a month ago for reasons related to the transfer of due amounts, as well as other technical reasons

http://economy-news.net/content.php?id=12926.

 

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  • yota691 changed the title to Iraq fails to convince Iran to resume supplying electricity

Iraq fails to convince Iran to resume supplying electricity

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Iraq fails to convince Iran to resume supplying electricity

 

16-07-2018 All times are GMT +3

 

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The Ministry of Electricity failed on Monday to persuade Iran to resume supplying electricity after talks in Tehran. 

The ministry said in a press statement today that the Iraqi delegation failed to convince the Iranian side to continue to supply the country with electricity, without mentioning the reasons. . 

The cutting of the Iranian line contributed to the increase in the hours of power cuts in the provinces of southern Iraq and was one of the reasons for the outbreak of mass popular protests a week ago.

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On 7/15/2018 at 4:29 AM, yota691 said:

The Iranian authorities stopped a few days ago to supply Iraq with electricity, demanding Baghdad to pay more than $ 1.5 billion accumulated debts of electricity bills.

Iran insists that payments should be made in dollars, but the Iraqi government fears that US sanctions will come if it deals with Tehran in hard currency, and in return demands anything but the dollar.

Send them over some of that worthless dinar!! I wonder how many dump truck loads would pay the bill!! :lmao:  

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Chaos at the Iraqi Borders

Monday, 16 July, 2018 - 05:00
 
Abdulrahman Al-Rashed
Abdulrahman Al-Rashed is the former general manager of Al-Arabiya television. He is also the former editor-in-chief of Asharq Al-Awsat, and the leading Arabic weekly magazine Al-Majalla. He is also a senior columnist in the daily newspapers Al-Madina and Al-Bilad.
 
 
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An unusual summer in southern Iraq, hot weather, few hours of electricity a day after Iran had cut it off, and a large state without a government, except that the Iraqi summer season is ripe for problems, and it has a history in igniting chaos, invasion and revolutions.

The cities of Najaf and Basra are more than 400 kilometers apart, yet the chaos has reached the two cities. Basra specifically is suffering more than the rest of the Iraqi cities. It seems there is an intention to escalate in the south to weaken the central government and threaten the region. Iraq as a whole, not only Basra, is struggling to get out of the impact of two turbulent phases.

Saddam’s rule was a period of wars and crises for 25 years. Then there was the invasion stage and what came after it, where the country became chaotic. Then we saw it trying to recover slowly under Haider al-Abadi’s rule.

Basra’s chaos was the result of the weak central government. The government in Baghdad is weak and cannot play its role, as there are many partners in authority; militias, authorities and parties and with the US-Iranian conflict which became obvious to everyone. There is no doubt that Iran is the biggest challenge for Iraq to be independent and successful. The regime in Tehran considers Iraq as its natural geographical, sectarian extension.  

During the past few years, it succeeded in creating entities that had weakened Baghdad with a parallel authority, like the Popular Mobilization Forces, unfair bilateral agreements, using oil revenues to finance its operations, seeking to have full control by imposing a puppet government. Tehran did not succeed completely but it managed to hinder the authority in Baghdad, until it became incapable of providing enough electricity, to get the militias - that impose control over cities - out, to provide jobs and even incapable to stop the intervention of Iran and its militias in southern Iraqi affairs. 

It became more complicated since the end of the elections, as there is a crisis because of the vacuum in authority, which has doubled the suffering. The government almost became paralyzed waiting for naming a Prime Minister who would join the coalition amid a party dispute that may exacerbate the period of power vacuum, and extends the country’s crises. This is what is happening in the internal affairs.

Iraq, along with Kuwait and Iran, is the northern Gulf, a potentially permanent area of tension as a result of the three forces sharing its land and water borders, in addition to a large US military presence on land and sea, within a complex military balance in this sensitive region.  

Iran wants to do the same as it did in Lebanon and Yemen, opening several fronts to weaken its adversaries and provoke the international community. The militias in south Iraq are prepared by the Revolutionary Guards to be like “Hezbollah” in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen; an advanced battalion fighting on behalf of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

We see signs of a crisis that would fill the Gulf region with chaos and ignite battles inside Iraq and with its neighbors. Later, we would hear Tehran saying that it is ready to mediate to stop the fighting, if its conditions are accepted in return. Due to increasing US pressure, the Iranian authorities are trying to make everyone pay and fail Trump’s administration plan to economically and politically force Iran into signing a nuclear agreement with better conditions that the previous one.

South Iraq might be the new field for the Iranian regime, after it had lost a lot in the Syrian war due to the Israeli attacks against its forces and militias, and the changing Russian stance.https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1333061/abdulrahman-al-rashed/chaos-iraqi-borders
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  • yota691 changed the title to Iran officially explains the reason for cutting off electricity from Iraq
Release Date: 2018/7/17 13:22  1260 times read
Iran officially explains the reason for cutting off electricity from Iraq
Iran on Tuesday formally explained the reason for cutting its electricity to Iraq under an agreement between the two countries.
"To stop supplying Iraq with electricity, because we have worked according to the agreement, giving priority to meeting the country's necessary electricity needs," Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardkanian told reporters on the sidelines of a signing ceremony of a joint work plan between the Iranian electricity and telecommunications ministries. 
"All energy contracts and agreements contain frameworks and requirements, including the exporting country and when they are in dire need, they must first meet their domestic needs," he said. 
"Iraq is in great need of electricity, especially in the summer, part of which is supplied through Iran through power transmission lines," he said. 
"We are in constant contact with the Iraqi side, and the Iraqi electricity minister was in Iran recently and briefed us on our electricity needs," he said.
"Iran and the expansion of its relations with neighboring countries are seeking to establish another transport line with Turkmenistan and a transport line with the Republic of Armenia," Erkanyan said. "When these lines are established, there will be an increase in imports and our commitments to countries that receive energy from us will increase." 
The lack of electric power was one of the main reasons for the emergence of angry popular demonstrations in the southern provinces with temperatures to more than 50 degrees Celsius. 
On Monday, the Ministry of Electricity unveiled an alternative plan to compensate for energy imported from Iran. 
The ministry said in a statement received by the {Euphrates News} a copy of it, "it has developed an alternative plan for the import of electric power from Iran after the Iranian side announced that it was unable to return the four lines of import to service again."
A senior Iraqi ministerial delegation plans to visit Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, including oil ministers Abduljabbar al-Luaibi, electricity Qassem al-Fahdawi, transport Kazem Fanjan and a number of general managers in a number of ministries. 
The Iraqi delegation will discuss with the Saudi side a number of important issues and issues within the framework of the Iraqi-Saudi Coordinating Council. The energy file, which includes electricity and fuel, will be one of the most important issues to be discussed with the Saudi side, according to a government statement.
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IRAN / IRAN Date: 2018 Jul. 17 - GMT 10:50
 

Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardkanian said that the suspension of electricity supply to Iraq came in accordance with the agreement concluded, to give priority to meet the needs of the country.

Minister Erdkanian explained at the signing ceremony of a joint work plan between the Iranian electricity and telecommunications ministries on Tuesday: Every contract and agreement for the exchange of energy, including frameworks and obligations of which the exporting country and when they are in dire need, must first meet their domestic needs.

He said that Iraq is in great need of electricity especially in the summer, which is provided part of it through Iran through power transmission lines. Adding that we are in constant contact with the Iraqi side, and the minister of energy of this country visited Iran a few days ago and looked at the limitations we face. 

Minister Arkanian said that Iran and the expansion of its trade with neighboring countries aims to establish another transport line with Turkmenistan and a transport line with Armenia. Once these lines are established, the country's imports will be increased and our commitments will be increased to countries that import energy from them.

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The Haditha dam was built to provide hydroelectric power to Baghdad; it is 2nd largest contributor to power behind the Mosel dam. My former company did repairs on it in 2003-2005. Originally it was almost non-functional during the war, but when we left it was functioning @ about +/-95% capacity. Baghdad should still be receiving electricity from it. Curious to what happened to that. 

 

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On 7/16/2018 at 9:44 PM, Goggles said:

Send them over some of that worthless dinar!! I wonder how many dump truck loads would pay the bill!! :lmao:  

 

Better yet Goggles send them some of their own worthless currency.  If they would even take their own currency now that value is going down.  But yet Iraq could get their electricity even cheaper doing that.  Don't want Iran to have any dinar before it RVs.

 

SR

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On ‎7‎/‎16‎/‎2018 at 2:44 PM, Goggles said:

Send them over some of that worthless dinar!! I wonder how many dump truck loads would pay the bill!! :lmao:  

I'm thinking it may be more appropriate to send Iran some Zimbabwe dollars or their own paper, as SupraRacer suggested :lol: , if in fact Iraq ACTUALLY  owes $1.5B to Iran for electricity (which I doubt).

Semper Fi:salute:

GO RV :backflip:

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9 minutes ago, Hotcurl said:

I'm thinking it may be more appropriate to send Iran some Zimbabwe dollars or their own paper, as SupraRacer suggested :lol: , if in fact Iraq ACTUALLY  owes $1.5B to Iran for electricity (which I doubt).

Semper Fi:salute:

GO RV :backflip:

 

Ya Hotcurl I"m thinking that the $1.5B is bribe money intended to find its way into Malarky's pocket. 

 

Don't fall for it Abadi its a 3 card monty.  :jester:

 

SR

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49 minutes ago, SupraRacer said:

 

Ya Hotcurl I"m thinking that the $1.5B is bribe money intended to find its way into Malarky's pocket. 

 

Don't fall for it Abadi its a 3 card monty.  :jester:

 

SR

Yep, SR,  3 card Monty for sure. Everyday it is something else or more :bs: with Rouhani and the Iranian Mullahs. Hollow threats and desperation for sure.

I'm thinking that the existing sanctions, devaluation of the currency, future sanctions and riots on the streets at home are really  taking its toll  on Rouhani and the government. 

IMHO - They are throwing $1.5B Shiite up against the wall to see what sticks, again desperate acts by a desperate government.

 

Big turban and no camels :lol: 

 

Semper Fi :salute:

GO RV :backflip:

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Wow-and I thought I had it bad. That image of all the wires crossing through the trees is one for the record books. 

 

The responses in this post contain a great example of the brilliant minds contained by DV members...

 

Sage449 - that's very intetesting...I too wonder what happened to the functionality and/or resources coming from the output and production of that dam...one thing is for certain, I am pretty sure that Maliki still has power to 'the home that could house 30Mm people' (per Shabibi as quoted in 2015 or 2016).... I certainly hope the protests keep their momentum and that progress is gained for the citizens of Iraq. I'd be pretty pissed off myself if someone stole my money and kept me in the dark with no A/C in 110 plus degree heat...

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