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Release date:: 9/19/2019 14:49 • 198 times read
SOMO responds to news of Saudi demand for 20 million barrels of oil
National Oil Marketing Company (SOMO), affiliated to the Ministry of Oil, responded to news of Saudi Arabia's request to supply 20 million barrels of Iraqi crude oil after targeting its Aramco oil facilities.
Saudi Arabia has reached out to international partners, including Iraq, in a bid to make up for the oil shortage caused by the attack on Aramco, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Saudi Arabia, after attacking two Aramco facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais, which halted half of its oil exports, was forced to boost its reputation as a credible exporter of black gold globally to boost its exports at the expense of dedicated oil, the paper quoted oil brokers as saying. To meet their internal needs.
Aramco, shortly after Saturday's attack, turned to the global market to explore opportunities to acquire oil products, including diesel, gasoline and fuel oil, in much larger quantities than usual, a move believed to be aimed at filling gaps in its domestic needs, brokers said.
The paper also quoted two people familiar with the matter as saying that Saudi Arabia resorted to the Iraqi state oil marketing company "Somo" request to provide 20 million barrels of crude oil in order to support its internal refineries.
Aramco declined to comment on the issue, while Vice President of "Somo" crude oil sales, Ali Nizar Shater, the existence of any contacts in this regard between the two companies, according to the newspaper.
Saudi Arabia has also been forced to make changes to the types of crude oil it offers to its international customers. Aramco has told Indian refineries that it cannot currently supply standard Arabian light crude and proposed replacing it with lower-grade heavy crude.
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Release date:: 2019/19/19 14:56  110 times read
Iran threatens all-out war in the event of a military strike against it
Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has threatened a "full-scale war" if the United States launches a military strike against Iran.
Zarif said in an interview with CNN: "I seriously say that we do not want war, we do not want to engage in military confrontation, but we will not hesitate to defend our land."
Zarif denied Tehran's interference in the attack on Aramco's facilities a few days ago, pointing out that the attack came from the Houthi group in Yemen.
Zarif's comments came hours after US President Donald Trump said there were "many options for dealing with Iran, including the military option," noting that his country would impose new sanctions on Tehran within 48 hours.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday warned of war after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the attack on Saudi Arabia was an "act of war."

Zarif said in a statement followed by "direction" that "members of Team B, as well as US partners are trying to deceive Trump and dragged him into war," noting that "it is in the interest of those seeking to drag Trump to war pray so that they do not achieve what they want."

"Saudi Arabia is still paying the price for the very small war in Yemen, which they refused four years ago to stop because of its arrogance," he said.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that the Yemeni attack on Saudi Aramco was a warning to Saudi Arabia, noting that Riyadh, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, some European countries and the Zionist entity had ignited war in the region and destroyed Yemen.

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Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry displays Iranian drones, cruise missiles used in Aramco attacks

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Defense ministry spokesman says attacks were “unquestionably” sponsored by Iran

Investigations are still underway to pinpoint the exact launch location, but definitely not yemen

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia displayed Iranian drones and cruise missiles that it said were used in an attack against Aramco facilities at the weekend.

The attacks were “unquestionably” sponsored by Iran but investigations are still underway to pinpoint the exact launch location, defense ministry spokesman Col. Turki Al-Maliki said at a news conference in Riyadh.

However he said that the strikes came from  north of the targets and not from Yemen, where Houthi militants claimed they had been launched from on Saturday. 

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“The attack was launched from the north and unquestionably sponsored by Iran," he told a news conference. “The evidence ... that you have seen in front of you, makes this undeniable.”

“The precision impact of the cruise missile indicates advanced capability beyond the capacity of Iran’s proxies. The targeting direction of the site indicates a north-to-south direction of travel.”

Eighteen drones and three missiles were launched against Abqaiq, the location of the world’s largest oil-processing facility, but the missiles “fell short” of the target, Al-Maliki said. A further four missiles targeted the Khurais oil field, he added.


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The defense ministry showed how many drones (UAV) and cruise missiles (LACM) hit each of the two Aramco sites on Saturday. (Screengrab)Caption

 

The Ya Ali missiles, which have a range of 700 kilometers, are known to have been used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, he said.

UN experts have already traveled to Saudi Arabia to investigate the attacks, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. He warned of “devastating” consequences should the crisis escalate.

Earlier, the Saudi ambassador to London said Iran was almost certainly behind the attacks on an oil processing facility and an oil field that cut the Kingdom’s oil production by half. 

The US has blamed Iran for the attacks and officials told Reuters that they originated in south-western Iran and involved cruise missiles and drones.

Iran-backed Houthi militants initially claimed they had carried out the attack from Yemen, where Saudi Arabia is part of a coalition supporting government forces fighting the militia. 

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The Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SOMO), on Thursday, "categorically denied" Saudi Arabia's request to Iraq to supply crude oil.

The director of relations and media company, Haider al-Kaabi in an interview with Alsumaria News, that "the oil marketing company Somo categorically denies Saudi Arabia's request to Iraq to provide crude oil."

According to the site "Wall Street Journal", earlier Thursday, that Saudi Arabia asked the Iraqi oil marketing company "Somo" 20 million barrels of oil to supply its refineries.
 
 

According to press reports, the attack on two vital facilities belonging to the company "Saudi Aramco", last Saturday, caused serious losses suffered by the Kingdom's economy, after strikes aimed at the heart of the oil industry by targeting the largest oil processing facility in the world.
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Attacks on Saudi oil installations are still gaining momentum at the regional and international levels, amid fears that they could lead to a new war in the Gulf.

Following is a list of the latest developments:

Khamenei agrees to attack
Iranian officials say they have information that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has approved the attack on two Saudi Aramco oil facilities, CBS News quoted US officials as saying.

The network said that Khamenei approved the attack on the condition that it is carried out in a way that suspects from any Iranian involvement.

It is noteworthy that the Yemeni Houthi group claimed responsibility for the attack, but Washington and Riyadh said the drones were launched from Iran.

The list of targets
, according to the New York Times, the US military response plans include a list of targets in Iran, including Ibadan facility and one of the largest oil refineries and the island "came out" with the largest oil facility in the country.

The list also includes sites from which missiles may have been fired at Saudi Arabia and other Revolutionary Guards bases in southwestern Iran.

"Any strike against Iran is likely to be carried out by bursts of cruise missiles from naval ships," the newspaper said. If Iran responds to the first strike, the planes will strike again. ”

New sanctions
US President Donald Trump announced that he has "many options" to respond to Iran, announcing new sanctions "within 48 hours."

These sanctions add to the unprecedented punitive measures imposed by Washington on Tehran, following Trump's withdrawal in May 2018 from the international agreement on Iran's nuclear program.

"There are a lot of options, there is the final option, there are much fewer options, and we will see," Trump told reporters in Los Angeles. "I say the final option means war."

For his part, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described the US decision to impose additional sanctions on Iran as an escalation of the economic war on its citizens, and said that the resolution is illegal economic terrorism and inhuman.

Zarif spoke of the possibility of luring US President Donald Trump to launch a war against Iran.

To the UAE
, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left Saudi Arabia for the UAE, after meeting in Jeddah with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and discussed with him the need for "the international community to join forces to confront the continuing threat of the Iranian regime."

Pompeo and bin Salman agreed on the need to hold the Iranian regime accountable for its continued aggression and reckless and threatening behavior, according to the statement.

The US Secretary of State said on Twitter that the United States stands with Saudi Arabia and supports its right to defend itself, and Pompeo stressed that what he described as the Iranian regime's behavior threatening will not be tolerated.

Pompeo ended his talks with bin Salman hours after Saudi Arabia offered what it said was evidence that Iran was attacking oil facilities.

In a related context, the UAE announced its accession to the International Alliance for Navigation Security, a day after Saudi Arabia took a similar step.

Iran rejects and shows its strength
For his part, adviser to the Iranian president said that the evidence presented by the Saudi Ministry of Defense is a media and political scandal, and said it proved that it does not have any information, and does not know what it wants.

He added that Riyadh did not answer the most important question, which is: Why did the radars not detect the attack before it happened?

At the same time, Iran announced that it will organize its annual military parade on the 22nd of this month in the Gulf waters.

France
's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Laudrian said the Houthis' account of attacking Saudi Aramco's two Saudi oil facilities was unbelievable.

A French military spokesman said Paris had sent seven experts to Saudi Arabia to investigate the Aramco attacks.

The Houthi group claimed responsibility for the attacks on Saudi oil facilities last Saturday, but Washington and Riyadh said the attacks were from Iran.

Source: Al Jazeera + Agencies

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the oil marketing company Somo categorically denies Saudi Arabia's request to Iraq to provide crude oil."

 

thats interesting that iraq would deny selling crude when its the only money generator iraq has going , unless of course that would circumvent someones plan to disrupt oil supply that iraq is " friendly " with .... thanks for all the articles u bring yota 

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Approved Saudi Attacks: Washington

By Irina Slav - Sep 19, 2019, 9:30 AM CDT

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei approved the attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure, a U.S. government official told CBS, adding that the approval had been granted on the condition that Iran’s involvement could be denied.

If what other U.S. officials are saying is accurate, this condition has not been met, however. Earlier this week, a team of U.S. security experts who traveled to Saudi Arabia to examine the wreckage of the drones and cruise missiles fired against Aramco’s Khurais field and the Abqaiq processing facility said they had determinedthe weapons were manufactured in Iran.

Yesterday, Saudi officials displayed fragments of the missiles, saying they were made in Iran as were the drones used in the attack, for which the Houthi rebel group in Yemen took responsibility.

They also showed surveillance footage of incoming drones, although there was no footage of the actual hits that caused fires at Abqaiq.

Now, CBS reports that the circuit boards of the missiles can be reverse engineered, which would reveal their route to their target. What’s more, however, according to the U.S. government sources, there were satellite images showing the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps preparing for the launch of the missiles at the Ahvaz Air Base.

As to why the evidence was not used to prevent the attack, one U.S. official told CBS the significance of the images was only figured out in hindsight. Related: How An Oil Supply Outage Could Paralyze Asia

"We were caught completely off guard," the source said.

There have been calls for a U.S. military response to the attacks, but President Trump has taken a guarded stance. While ordering the Pentagon to draft several response alternatives, the U.S. commander in chief said "There's plenty of time to do some dastardly things. We'll see what happens."

A government source told CNN there were going to be "No knee jerk reactions to this - it's very systematic - what happens with patience is it prevents stupid moves."

The source added that the U.S. administration was biding its time before it decided on a response, with the net UNB General Assembly meeting in New York seen as a good moment to discuss the issue with other world leaders.

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Saudi Arabia Asks Iraq For Oil

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By Irina Slav - Sep 19, 2019, 9:30 AM CDT

 

 

Saudi Arabia has approached Baghdad with a request to buy crude oil from OPEC’s number-two to compensate for its production outage caused by the Saturday attacks, sources who declined to be named told S&P Global Platts.

According to one of the sources, Aramco had asked Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organization, or SOMO, for some 10 million barrels of Basra Light, to load in October and November.

The drone and cruise missile attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure removed an estimated 5.7 million bpd from its output. Although work is underway to return to normal operation at the Khurais field and the Abqaiq processing facility, it will be a while before this happens.

Saudi Arabia announced that the outage will not affect delivery volumes for next month, but it did have to resort to stockpiled crude to fill in the orders, and said there may be delays in some Asian shipments.

Saudi Arabia’s crude oil in storage was about 180 million barrels in July, which would have been enough to cover exports at the rate of 6.88 million bpd for a period of almost a month.

Now, the S&P Global Platts sources say Riyadh is also planning to use some of the oil it had allocated for domestic consumption to fulfill its export obligations. Iraq, in the meantime, has yet to respond to the request as it has its own export orders to fill.

Yesterday, Energy Minister Abdulaziz bin Salman told media that more than half of the lost production had been restored. By the end of September, bin Salman said, Saudi Arabia would have 11 million bpd in production capacity and by the end of November, it would be 12 million bpd.

Right now, the Abqaiq plant is processing around 2 million bpd of crude, and repairs at the facility should be completed by the end of the month, Aramco’s chief executive Amin Nasser said.

By Irina Slav for Oilprice.com

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Saudi-Arabia-Asks-Iraq-For-Oil.html

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This sounds fishy.

Saudi Aramco: We Never Asked Iraq For Extra Oil

By Tsvetana Paraskova - Sep 19, 2019, 12:00 PM CDT

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Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Aramco is not looking to buy crude oil from Iraq’s state oil marketing firm, people familiar with the operations of the two companies told Bloomberg on Thursday, after earlier reports had suggested that the Saudis were seeking to import as much as 20 million barrels of crude oil from Iraq.

Following the weekend attacks on vital oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Saudi Arabia had asked Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) to sell it 20 million barrels of crude oil for refineries in Saudi Arabia.

 

But the trading unit of the Saudi oil firm, Aramco Trading, is trading non-Saudi crude as usual and isn’t seeking more Iraqi crude, Bloomberg’s sources said, adding that reports of a request for 20 million barrels from SOMO weren’t correct.

The Saudi state oil giant, however, is considering sending more non-Saudi crude oil to its refineries operating under joint ventures outside Saudi Arabia, the sources told Bloomberg.

On Saturday, the Abqaiq facility and the Khurais oil field in Saudi Arabia were hit by attacks, which resulted in the temporary suspension of 5.7 million bpd of Saudi Arabia’s crude oil production, or around 5 percent of global daily oil supply.Related: OPEC Faces ‘’Daunting’’ Task To Balance Oil Markets In 2020

Aramco has reportedly restored around 40 percent of the affected production capacity and continues to ensure customers they will receive all the oil supply they had contracted—although some lighter grades would likely be replaced with heavier crude grades.

 

In an update on the progress in restoring supply, Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday that the return to normal production would likely take less time than originally feared, sparking a massive oil price drop of 6 percent late on Tuesday morning, just a day after prices had jumped more than any day on record.

The reports that the top oil exporter Saudi Arabia looks to import crude oil for its own refineries sent oil prices higher on Thursday morning, with WTI Crude up 1.02 percent at $58.67 and Brent Crude up 1.52 percent at $63.61 at 09:41 a.m. EDT.

By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Saudi-Aramco-We-Never-Asked-Iraq-For-Extra-Oil.html

 

 

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Release date:: 9/29/2019 9:01 • 181 times read
Zarif: Arab oil is more important to America than their blood
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said US policy toward the Yemen war was an indication that the United States considers oil more important than human blood.
Zarif wrote in a tweet on the social networking site "Twitter" at dawn Friday: Arab blood to Arab oil / thousand B. US policy: 4 years of blind indiscriminate bombing of Yemen, 100,000 dead from the Yemeni people, 20 million suffering from malnutrition, 2.3 million people have cholera;
He added that the United States considers the Yemenis' response to this (aggression) by targeting oil depots a "war act" which is rejected.
The Iranian foreign minister wrote in another tweet: Just imagine that America is not resentful that its allies have bombed the children of Yemen harshly for more than four years with US weapons and military support, but resents when the victims (Yemenis) react in the only able It - ie targeting the oil installations of the aggressors
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Wall Street: Saudi Arabia asked Iraq to provide oil .. Baghdad denies

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Saudi Aramco has been hit hard recently (Reuters) Saudi Aramco has been hit hard recently (Reuters)
 
Saudi Arabia has asked the Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) up to 20 million barrels of crude to supply the country's domestic refineries, the Wall Street Journal reported.

For its part, denied Somo - according to Iraqi media sources - the validity of Riyadh's request to provide crude oil.

After the attacks on Saudi Arabia's largest oil facilities on 14 March, the kingdom is reaching out to foreign producers to obtain crude oil and other petroleum products, increasing its usual trade flows to fill supply gaps and to maintain its reputation as a reliable supplier.

The attacks have halted nearly half of Saudi Arabia's crude oil production, affecting global oil supplies.

One of the Iraqi oil facilities (Al Jazeera)
One of the Iraqi oil facilities (Al Jazeera)

An Iraqi exile,
but a spokesman for the company "Sumo" Haider al-Kaabi, denied to Iraqi media Saudi Arabia's request to Sumo to supply crude.

On Tuesday, state oil firm Saudi Aramco said it would meet its obligations to provide customers while repairing damage from the attacks, and that the reserves would be used to restore production to normal levels within weeks and recover 50 percent of lost production.

Last year, Saudi Arabia produced an average of 10.3 million barrels of crude oil per day and exported 7.4 million barrels per day, in addition to 2 million barrels per day of refined products, according to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

Kepler, which monitors oil flows, said crude oil exports from Saudi Arabia had stabilized at around 6.5 million barrels over the three days ending on January 18, following attacks on oil facilities in the kingdom over the weekend top-page.gif.

Source: Agencies, Wall Street Journal
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Wall Street Journal confirms Saudi demand for Iraqi oil ... Baghdad denies
 
 
 
 
After the attacks on its largest oil facilities, Saudi Arabia is reaching out to foreign producers to obtain crude oil and other petroleum products, in an attempt to fill gaps in its oil supply to the international market.

Al-Houthi rockets hit nearly half of the country's crude oil production , according to a report published on Thursday by the Wall Street Journal. The disruption of Saudi supplies has indirect effects on the global oil supply chain. To maintain its reputation as a reliable supplier, the world's largest oil exporter is looking to buy crude from at least one of its neighbors, starting with Iraq, as well as oil products from the global market, oil traders told The Wall Street Journal.

Only the spokesman Iraqi oil marketing company "Somo", Haider al-Kaabi denied to the Iraqi media this news, and said: "We confirm the absence of such a request."

Saudi exports focus on unrefined crude oil. It keeps some of the oil it pumps from the ground and purifies it into products including diesel, gasoline and fuel oil, and uses it mainly to generate electricity and local transportation fuel. Saudi Arabia is not usually a crude oil importer, as it is usually a net exporter of refined oil products.
 

 
 

State-owned Saudi Aramco said on Tuesday it would meet its obligations to provide customers while repairing damage from the attacks. 

Production is missing

, Saudi officials confirmed earlier this week that they would use reserves to restore production to normal levels within weeks and restore 50 per cent of the lost production.

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Kingdom imports the extra diesel during the summer, but the quantities ordered by Saudi Arabia this week far exceed their normal demand.

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Shortly after Saturday's attacks, Aramco was on the market looking for products including diesel, gasoline and fuel oil for domestic use, according to the Wall Street Journal. To maintain its own crude for export, Saudi Arabia needs to reduce the amount of domestic crude it refines to produce hydrocarbons.

Last year, Saudi Arabia produced an average of 10.3 million barrels of crude oil per day and exported 7.4 million barrels per day in addition to 2 million barrels per day of refined products, according to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

"On Monday they started to inquire about the purchase of petroleum products, possibly with a view to increasing crude oil exports," said Dario Scafardi, chief executive of Italian oil refiner Saras SpA.

Sometimes, according to the US website, Saudi Arabia imports the extra diesel during the summer, when air conditioning puts more pressure on the power grid, but the quantities Saudi Arabia ordered this week far exceeded its usual demand, traders said.

Import from Iraq

Saudi Arabia has asked the Iraqi National Oil Marketing Company (SOMO), up to 20 million barrels of crude oil to supply local Saudi refineries, two sources told the "Wall Street Journal", are familiar with the issue.

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Saudi Arabia has asked the Iraqi National Oil Marketing Company (SOMO), up to 20 million barrels of crude oil to supply local Saudi refineries.

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Aramco declined to comment on the information, and said the deputy head of oil sales in the "Sumo", Ali Nizar Shater, that there is no contract between "Sumo" and "Aramco."

The attack on the Abqaiq oil facility in Saudi Arabia is expected to reduce activity at local refineries by up to 1.4 million barrels of crude oil per day, reducing the supply of products for domestic consumption and exports , according to Iman Al-Nasseri, Middle East chief executive Consulting company "Factories Global Energy". "They prioritize the international market and exports of crude oil," Naciri said. 

Traders said it was unclear how much exports of Aramco's products were in September. They said Aramco was seeking this week to import an additional 300,000 barrels of oil products a day.

In order to maintain the supply of its customers, the Kingdom has also been forced to make adjustments to the crude grades it offers to customers. Aramco has told Indian refineries it cannot deliver the light Arab crude it ordered. Instead, the company will send the less heavy heavy crude, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

 
 

Samah Ahmed, a crude oil analyst at Kepler Offshore, commented that Aramco had replaced five shipments of light Arab oil, including two bound for China, with heavy oil from the Ras Tanura plant in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province this week.

Alternatives from Qatar and the UAE The

decline in supplies of Saudi Arabian light oil in Saudi Arabia has prompted at least two rival producers, the UAE and Qatar, to offer alternatives to international buyers, according to traders.

The United States could also fill any gap in light grades of crude oil, as two new pipelines linking   Texas oil- rich shale basin to New Gulf ports have recently been launched, boosting the country's export capacity in recent weeks.

 

US dependence on Saudi oil has dwindled in recent years, with domestic refineries taking about 3 percent of its oil from the kingdom, down from 6 percent three years ago.

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Release date:: 9/29/2019 13:52 • 73 times read
Sarrout: The government is failing to protect Iraq's airspace and corruption within the security system
BAGHDAD: The member of the parliamentary security and defense committee, Abbas Sayed Sarrout, blamed the government for failing to protect the airspace of Iraq.
"After the recent events that led to the bombing of the Popular Mobilization Camps, there were accusations against Israel as well as a painful blow to Saudi Arabia and they may be subjected to other strikes because of their presence on the border areas," Sarrout told the Euphrates News.
He added, "As a security committee is with the army to be holding the Iraqi border because of the existence of soft areas of ISIS," noting that "the commander-in-chief of the armed forces is responsible for the security file and there are differences between the Minister of Defense and army leaders and Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to contain all crises within the security system ".
Sarout said that "the Hashd and Peshmerga forces within the security system, thus involving them in the new formation of the joint forces so that there is no intersection and the argument that they are outside the system," pointing out that "the joint forces are able to collect the decision if there is seriousness to control these forces."
"The commander-in-chief is responsible for the security violations against the headquarters of the crowd," he said, adding that "the committee, in hosting the national security adviser Faleh al-Fayyad, confirmed that the strikes were Israeli from Syria."
He added that "the files of corruption within it strongly in the security system and there are large sums of money wasted on non-sober weapons and the default comes from the government because Iraq does not have air defense equipment to protect Iraqi airspace."
"The area between Salah al-Din and Diyala is very rugged and there was talk to representatives of the security committee that there are soft areas of ISIS there," he said.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's response to any US aggression would be from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, an adviser to Iran's supreme leader said on Friday.

Safavi said Tehran's allies in the region were stronger than America's regional allies.

"If the Americans think about any conspiracies, the Iranian nation will respond from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, " Safavi said .
 

Iran denies involvement in the attacks on Saudi Aramco's oil facilities , which Tehran says were carried out by Ansar Allah , which it claimed was responsible.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the international community must have iron nerves to prevent a catastrophic war in the Gulf.

Guterres said in an interview, quoted by the network "CNN" on Friday: "We are very concerned, and sent two experts in line with Security Council resolutions 2231 to examine the wreckage (ruins in Abqaiq and Khurais), and to be able to analyze what it is and made, and in At the same time, I consider this to be a very serious escalation that I totally condemn, and it needs iron nerves from the international community to prevent what could be a huge conflict in the Gulf with dramatic consequences globally.

Asked if Saudi Arabia and Iran were on the verge of war? "I hope not," Guterres said.

 
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This is what Saudi Arabia is doing with rich families after the Aramco attack

By AhadNA3 20/09/2019 11:42 AM | Number Of Hits: 939

This is what Saudi Arabia is doing with rich families after the Aramco attack

Saudi Arabia is forcing wealthy families to invest in the upcoming Aramco IPO, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

The kingdom is pressuring wealthy families to buy the initial stakes to be offered by Saudi Aramco so that the kingdom can reach a full $ 2 trillion in assets, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said earlier.

The newspaper quoted eight people close to the negotiations between the Saudi government and some Saudi families known as wealthy as saying that the aim of pressure on these families to buy stakes in Aramco once put on the global stock markets is to build a picture of confidence in the shares and assets of the company, which was affected recently by the attack on Two establishments affiliated to it east of the country.

The report said many of these families were subjected to detention of prominent members of their children for periods at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the capital Riyadh in 2017 and 2018 in what the Kingdom called a "crackdown on corruption."

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The Pentagon is presenting it to Trump today .. Military scenarios to respond to Iran

 

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Friday offered a number of military options to US President Donald Trump as he studies how to respond to what administration officials say is an unprecedented Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia's oil industry.

At a forthcoming White House meeting, the president will have a list of possible targets for air strikes inside Iran, among other possible responses, and he will also be warned that military action against the Islamic Republic could turn into war, according to US officials familiar with the discussions who spoke on condition of anonymity. .
 
The national security meeting is likely to be the first opportunity to decide how the United States will respond to an attack on a key Middle East ally.
Any decision may depend on the type of evidence that US and Saudi investigators can provide to prove IranCruise missiles were launched and drone strikes were launched, a number of officials including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed. Iran has

denied involvement and warned the United States that any attack would lead to "all-out war" with immediate retaliation from Tehran. Both Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence condemned the attack on Saudi oil facilities as "an act of war."

Pence said Trump "will review the facts and make a decision on the next steps. But the American people can be confident that the United States will defend our interest in the region and stand with our allies."

The US response could include military, political, and economic measures, and military options can range from no action at all to air strikes or less visible moves such as cyberattacks.


One possible step is for the United States to provide additional military support to help Saudi Arabia defend itself from attacks in the north, as most of its defenses have focused on the Houthi threats in Yemen south.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Danford, confirmed to a few journalists who traveled with him on Monday that the question of whether the United States would respond was a "political decision" and not up to the military.

"My job is to offer the president military options if he decides to respond with military force," Danford said.

He said Trump wanted "a whole range of options." "In the Middle East, of course, we have military forces there and we do a lot of planning and we have a lot of options," he said.

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US President Donald Trump will be presented with a list of potential airstrike targets inside Iran, and he also will be warned that military action against the Islamic Republic could escalate into war. (AFP)

Updated 20 September 2019

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Donald Trump will also be warned that military action against the Islamic Republic could escalate into war

The US response could involve military, political and economic actions

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon will present a broad range of military options to President Donald Trump on Friday as he considers how to respond to what administration officials say was an unprecedented Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry.
In a White House meeting, the president will be presented with a list of potential airstrike targets inside Iran, among other possible responses, and he also will be warned that military action against the Islamic Republic could escalate into war, according to US officials familiar with the discussions who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The national security meeting will likely be the first opportunity for a decision on how the US should respond to the attack on a key Middle East ally. Any decision may depend on what kind of evidence the US and Saudi investigators are able to provide proving that the cruise missile and drone strike was launched by Iran, as a number of officials, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have asserted.
Iran has denied involvement and warned the US that any attack will spark an “all-out war” with immediate retaliation from Tehran.
Both Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence have condemned the attack on Saudi oil facilities as “an act of war.” Pence said Trump will “review the facts, and he’ll make a decision about next steps. But the American people can be confident that the United States of America is going to defend our interest in the region, and we’re going to stand with our allies.”
The US response could involve military, political and economic actions, and the military options could range from no action at all to airstrikes or less visible moves such as cyberattacks. One likely move would be for the US to provide additional military support to help Saudi Arabia defend itself from attacks from the north, since most of its defenses have focused on threats from Houthis in Yemen to the south.
Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, emphasized to a small number of journalists traveling with him Monday that the question of whether the US responds is a “political judgment” and not for the military.
“It is my job to provide military options to the president should he decide to respond with military force,” Dunford said.
Trump will want “a full range of options,” he said. “In the Middle East, of course, we have military forces there and we do a lot of planning and we have a lot of options.”
US Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Michigan, said in an interview Thursday that if Trump “chooses an option that involves a significant military strike on Iran that, given the current climate between the US and Iran, there is a possibility that it could escalate into a medium to large-scale war, I believe the president should come to Congress.”
Slotkin, a former top Middle East policy adviser for the Pentagon, said she hopes Trump considers a broad range of options, including the most basic choice, which would be to place more forces and defensive military equipment in and around Saudi Arabia to help increase security.
A forensic team from US Central Command is pouring over evidence from cruise missile and drone debris, but the Pentagon said the assessment is not finished. Officials are trying to determine if they can get navigational information from the debris that could provide hard evidence that the strikes came from Iran.
Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said Thursday that the US has a high level of confidence that officials will be able to accurately determine exactly who launched the attacks last weekend.
US officials were unwilling to predict what kind of response Trump will choose. In June, after Iran shot down an American surveillance drone, Trump initially endorsed a retaliatory military strike then abruptly called it off because he said it would have killed dozens of Iranians. The decision underscores the president’s long-held reluctance to embroil the country in another war in the Middle East.
Instead, Trump opted to have US military cyber forces carry out a strike against military computer systems used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to control rocket and missile launchers, according to US officials.

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MPs demand Foreign Ministry to respond to Saudi accusations on Aramco attacks

BAGHDAD / Obelisk: The Badr bloc in the House of Representatives, on Friday, September 20, 2019, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry to respond to the Saudi accusations of Iraq on the targeting of Aramco facilities .

The head of the bloc Hassan al-Kaabi, in a press statement, that "the Iraqi Foreign Ministry is required to respond to the Saudi accusations, on the launch of drones that targeted the Saudi Aramco plant in the Abqaiq region of Iraq."

 Kaabi added that "Saudi Arabia is trying to distort the image of the Popular Mobilization and the resistance factions, after the victories they have achieved, and the failure of plans and international conspiracies on the country."

He continued, "The Foreign Ministry is required to follow diplomatic methods, in order to respond to the accusations of the Saudis, and blocking the way for anyone who tries to tarnish the image of the Iraqi armed forces, accusations untrue."

Last Saturday, Saudi Aramco was attacked by two of its sites, targeting Aramco's facilities in the Abqaiq region .

Saudi Arabia, at a conference held by its Defense Ministry on Wednesday, September 18, 2019, accused Iran of being behind the attack by Yemeni Houthi group Ansar Allah on Saudi Aramco .

 

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SOMO responds to news of Saudi demand for 20 million barrels of oil

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BAGHDAD / .. The National Oil Marketing Company (SOMO), affiliated to the Ministry of Oil, responded to news of Saudi Arabia's request to provide 20 million barrels of Iraqi crude oil after targeting its oil facilities belonging to Aramco.

Saudi Arabia has reached out to international partners, including Iraq, in a bid to make up for the oil shortage caused by the attack on Aramco, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Saudi Arabia, after attacking two Aramco facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais, which halted half of its oil exports, was forced to boost its reputation as a credible exporter of black gold globally to boost its exports at the expense of dedicated oil, the paper quoted oil brokers as saying. To meet their internal needs.

Aramco, shortly after Saturday's attack, turned to the global market to explore opportunities to acquire oil products, including diesel, gasoline and fuel oil, in much larger quantities than usual, a move believed to be aimed at filling gaps in its domestic needs, brokers said.

The paper also quoted two people familiar with the matter as saying that Saudi Arabia resorted to the Iraqi state oil marketing company "Somo" request to provide 20 million barrels of crude oil in order to support its internal refineries.

Aramco declined to comment on the issue, while Vice President of "Somo" crude oil sales, Ali Nizar Shater, the existence of any contacts in this regard between the two companies, according to the newspaper.

Saudi Arabia has also been forced to make changes to the types of crude oil it offers to its international customers. Aramco has told Indian refineries that it cannot currently supply standard Arabian light crude and proposed replacing it with lower-grade heavy crude.

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Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Alam al-Huda said that his country's territory is larger than its geographical borders, attributing the reason that "all armed factions supported by Tehran in the Middle East are part of Iran.
" "Iran today is not only Iran and does not limit its geographical boundaries. The Popular Mobilization in Iraq, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Ansar Allah in Yemen, the National Defense Forces in Syria, Islamic Jihad and Hamas in Palestine are all Iran, "
said Imam Al-Huda, addressing Riyadh. Where is Iran? Isn't South Lebanon Iran? Isn't Hezbollah Iran? The attack on Aramco's oil facilities in Saudi Arabia came from the north.
"The ignorant Americans and their Saudi mercenaries say that Iran is behind the attack. Everyone knows they want to deceive the world," he said, warning that "any military strike on Iran would turn Israel into ashes."
Ayatollah Ahmad Alam al-Huda is the imam of Friday in the northeastern city of Mashhad, the country's second largest city, and is also a member of the expert council charged with selecting, supervising and even dismissing the supreme leader.
His remarks came about a week after the attack, which targeted two oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, claimed by the Houthis, while Riyadh and Washington accuse Iran of involvement in it.

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