Baqir Jabur al-Zubaidy, head of the Citizen bloc, emphasized the need to provide a safe alternative route to the Iraqi exporting oil lines to avoid economic and humanitarian disaster if the Iranian Strait, Hormuz, was closed."
Zobaidy stated to All Iraq News Agency (AIN) on Monday that “The US - Iran cold war has started many months ago but Iraq did not prepare an alternative plan to export its oil through other places if Hormuz closed."
"There are many indications that war against Iran has begun, including the launching of the ballistic missiles in Iran and the capturing of the US spy plane by Iran and killing Iranian agents," Zobaidy added.
Zobaidy also explained that "Iraq did not find other outlets for oil exports after the failure of the strategic line project through the Saudi territories."
"The solution to the problem of Iraq is to regain Yanbo’a strategic export oil line which passes through Saudi territorial and pumps in the ports of the Red Sea," Zobaidy mentioned.
"Iraqi Yanbo’a line had been implemented in the eighties of the last century by Iraqi funds with a cost of more than 2,5 million USD," he added, noting that "The Saudi side controlled Yanbo’a line and seized the oil in it and the oil in the warehouses overlooking the Red Sea and used it to export gas."
Zobaidy called the Iraqi government to "practice political pressure on the Saudi side to restore Yanbo’a line and to get wages for using it for the past years; He also called to regain the oil seized by the Saudi side in the oil line and warehouses.”
Gulf area witnessed tension when Iran threatened to close the Hormuz Strait and stop oil exports that pass through this strait which is estimated at [40] percent of global demand if the US and the West to impose economic sanctions on Iranian oil or strike Iranian nuclear sites.
The US government considered closeing the Strait of Hormuz "an issue cannot be tolerated.
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