The US ends the renunciation sanctions from Iraq to buy electricity from Iran | Energy news
Iraq faces the exacerbation of the shortage of strength after reducing renunciation related to Iranian gas and electricity imports.
The United States ended a renunciation sanctions that have allowed Iraq to buy electricity From neighboring Iran, in accordance with US President Donald Trump’s policy to perform “maximum pressure” to Tehran.
In a statement published on Sunday, the US Ministry of the State announced that the decision was not to renovate renunciation to “ensure that Iran would not allow any degree of economic or financial relief.”
Such a renunciation was introduced in 2018, when Washington re -inserted Santions on Tehran after Tehran Trump has left a nuclear contract with Iran negotiated under US President Barack Obama. Then Trump imposed a reconciliation of American sanctions on any other country buying Iranian oil. The renunciation was expanded to Iraq as the “key partner” USA.
Ever since he returned to the White House in January for a second term as an American president, Trump has returned his “maximum pressure” policy against Iran.
“The president’s campaign for the maximum pressure is intended for the end of Iran nuclear threats, reduce its Balistic missile program and prevent it from supporting the terrorist groups,” said a US Embassy spokesman in Baghdad earlier on Sunday. A spokesman called Baghdad “to remove his addiction to Iranian energy sources as soon as possible.”
It won’t be an easy task. Despite his wealth of oil and gas, Iraq has suffered from decades of electricity shortages due to the war, corruption and poor management, and relied strongly on imported Iranian gas, as well as electricity that is imported directly from Iran to meet his electricity needs.
Three Iraqi energy officials who talked to Reuters said the country had no current alternative to compensate for energy imported from Iran, which would cause a significant problem in providing enough electricity to satisfy domestic consumption. Many Iraqi must rely on diesel generators or suffer by temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) during the summer months.
The renunciation that has expired has applied to direct imports of electricity. It remains unclear whether Iraq will be able to continue to import gas from Iran for their power plants.
The US Embassy claimed that electricity imports from Iran are only four percent of electricity consumption in Iraq.
However, a spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity, Ahmad Moussa, said that gas imports would also be banned, “would cause Iraq to lose more than 30 percent of electricity energy,” so the government is looking for alternatives.
Already said Moussa, the Iranian gas stopped supplying power plants in Baghdad and the central region of Euphrates in the last two months, and the supply of the southern power plants was unstable.
A senior official of the Ministry of Electricity said Associated Press that the Ministry has not yet been officially informed of the United States Decision -Ao -a gas import.
‘Abuser’
The decision of the American administration to remove renunciation comes two days after Trump said he wrote a letter Iranian leadership seeks to initiate talks on a nuclear agreement. The US president warned of a possible military action if Iran is not released.
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali khamenei Return, saying that the country will not negotiate with the “abuser” interested in imposing conditions, but to start negotiations.
However, the Iranian mission in the United Nations suggested that Tehran may be willing to talk about certain issues – but not the complete end of its nuclear program.
“If the goal of the negotiations is to resolve concerns over any potential militarization of the Iranian nuclear program, such discussions could be subject to consideration,” the mission statement said.
“However, if the goal is to dismantle the Iranian peaceful nuclear program to claim that what Obama has failed to achieve now has been accomplished, such negotiations will never happen.”
The labeled Nuclear Agreement from 2015, which helped the negotiations between Tehran and the main forces, promised the relief of sanctions in exchange for Iran, which suppressed his nuclear program.
Tehran, who denies the search for nuclear weapons, initially adhered to the nuclear agreement after Trump withdrew from him, but then rolled his obligations. US officials estimate that Iran will only take a few weeks now to build a nuclear bomb if he decided.
