The United States Steals Syrian Oil, and the Kurds Sell It to Israel at a Discount in Erbil by Steven Sahiounie!
(2024-01-22 at 23:02:55 )

The United States Steals Syrian Oil, and the Kurds Sell It to Israel at a Discount in Erbil by Steven Sahiounie!

The main oil field of Al Omar and Conoco in Syria are producing oil which is shipped in tankers by the United States Army and refined at Kar Oil Refinery in Erbil.

Irans Revolutionary Guard (IRG) claimed responsibility for missile attacks on an Israeli "spy headquarters." Kurdish businessman Peshraw Dizayee and four of his family members were killed in the attack on their home on January 16 near the United States Consulate in Erbil, in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR).

Mr. Dizayee was the owner of the Falcon Group, which is a business involved in oil and gas, agriculture and security. The IRG claimed its missiles targeted a "Mossad headquarters".

"No United States facilities were impacted. We are not tracking damage to infrastructure or injuries at this time," a United States official said in response to the recent attack.

Prime Minister of the IKR, Masrour Barzani, condemned the IRG attacks on Erbil.

The Oil business in Erbil

The oil business is thriving in IKR, and the Falcon Group was part of it. Kurdish oil has been exported to Israel, Italy, France and Greece through a secretive trade depending on pre-pay deals.

Israel buys much of its oil from Erbil, and Israel depends on the heavily discounted crude, making it a key customer. The oil is discounted to Israel because it is free, as the source is the stolen Syrian oil. 40% of Israels oil supplies were from IKR in the first three months of 2023, which doubled the amount in 2022.

Israel received its first substantial seaborne crude oil shipment from the IKR in 2014, which is the same time the United States occupation forces arrived in Syria. Israel was reportedly importing as much as three-quarters of its crude oil needs from the IKR by mid-2015.

Israeli refineries and oil companies imported almost $1 billion worth of Kurdish oil between May and August of 2023, according to shipping data, trading sources and satellite tanker tracking, which represents about 77 % of average Israeli demand, which runs at roughly 240,000 barrels per day. More than a third of all of the northern Iraqi exports, which are shipped from Turkeys Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, went to Israel over the period.

According to anonymous sources, it was a Mossad agent who first traveled to Erbil to negotiate the deal to buy oil from IKR, which was facilitated by United States officials.

The United States Consulate in Erbil

The new United States Consulate General building in Erbil, near the attack carried out by Iran, is the biggest consulate complex built by the United States. Embassies and Consulates are under the United States State Department, but the consulate in Erbil has a connection to the United States Department of Defense, demonstrating the strategic importance of the region for Washington,D.C., with a United States military base also in IKR.

Irvin Hicks, Jr., the United States Consul General in Erbil, stated in January 2023, that the new 800-million-dollar consulate building is a clear statement that the "United States of America is not going anywhere."

The United States first opened a diplomatic office in Erbil in February 2007, and later upgraded to a consulate general in 2011, the same year the United States-NATO attack on Syria began for regime change, under the Obama-Biden administration.

The United States embassy in Baghdad was built in 2009 and is its biggest mission compound in the world at a cost of $750 million. Iraqi Kurdistan and the Iraqi central government in Baghdad operate separately, as the Kurds are a semi-autonomous region.

Erbil has 30 consulates, six honorary consulates, and six foreign trade offices, with the Japanese consulate the latest to open on Jan. 11.

"Opening more than 30 consulates is not normal," Iranian Brigadier General Mohammad Hossein Rajabi criticized. Most of these consulates are used for espionage activities."

Iran views the foreign offices as having the potential to carry out plans aimed at destabilizing the security of Iran, by hosting Iranian separatist groups and bases aligned with Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.

The Iraqi response to the Genocide in Gaza

"On October 20, 2023, the Department ordered the departure of eligible family members and non-emergency United States government personnel from United States Embassy Baghdad and United States Consulate General Erbil due to increased security threats against United States government personnel and interests," according to the State Departments Iraq travel advisory.

Iraqis have taken to the streets to protest the United States complicity in the genocide being committed in Gaza by Israel. United States President Joe Biden has defied the American values of human rights and international law by continuing to send weapons to Israel to promote the wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian civilians of Gaza, even in the face of international criticism which has lowered the image of America as a beacon of freedom to a joke.

Protests have taken place outside of the United States Embassy in Baghdad, and military groups which are under the central government of Iraq have fired rockets and armed drones at United States troops based in Anbar and near Erbil multiple times. Baghdad does not recognize Israel; however, the IKR are aligned with the United States, and sell the stolen oil from Syria to the prime United States ally, Israel.

The United States invaded and destroyed Iraq in 2003, and occupied the country for years until a withdrawal. When ISIS reared its ugly head, the Baghdad government requested United States troops to come to help in the fight against ISIS, which saw its defeat at the hands of Iraq, Syria, Russia, and the United States.

The Iraqi parliament ordered the United States troops to leave after the defeat of ISIS in 2017, but the Department of Defense refused. The Prime Minister of Iraq has recently ordered the United States troops to leave immediately following the United States assassination of Mushtaq Jawad Kazim al-Jawari in Baghdad on January 4, an Iraqi military commander who was instrumental in the defeat of ISIS.

The PKK in Syria and Erbil

The PKK aligned SDF in north east Syria is United States supported. The United States military in Syria are occupying the largest oil field in Syria, which prevents the Damascus government from using the oil to provide electricity to the Syrian people, who suffer with just 3 hours of electricity per day.

In December 2023, 44-tanker convoy carrying oil stolen from Syria traveled clandestinely to UUnited States bases near Erbil. Just days before, United States forces took 95 tankers of oil and a truckload of stolen Syrian wheat to IKR. The Syrian wheat fields are also in the area the United States troops occupy and the area is controlled by Kurds who are aligned with the IKR.

Farhan Jamil Abdullah, head of the Syrian Oil Company, said in July that as a result of the UUnited States sanctions and military occupation in Syria, oil production has decreased to 15,000 barrels per day from 385,000 barrels before 2011.

Firas Hassan Kaddour, the Syrian Oil Minister, said in July that the losses of the energy sector in Syria are close to 100 billion United States dollars.

The main oil field of Al Omar and Conoco in Syria are producing oil which is shipped in tankers by the United States Army and refined at Kar Oil Refinery in Erbil.

The United States sponsors the SDF militia in Syria which is dominated by the YPG. The YPG is the Syrian branch of the PKK, a group recognized by Turkey, as well as the United States and the EU, as a terrorist organization, who have killed more than 40,000 persons over decades.

Turkey has condemned the United States alliance with the SDF and YPG, and considers the United States is financing terrorism.

The commander of the SDF is General Mazloum Kobani, who is also a member of the PKK. His real name is Ferhat Abdi Sahin, is one of Turkeys most wanted terrorists. Kobani was chosen by the United States as their military ally and it is at Kobanis command that the stolen Syrian oil is loaded into tankers.

Erdogan has demanded for years that the United States must stop supporting the SDF, YPG, and to stop encouraging the Kurds to establish an independent homeland in north east Syria on the border with Turkey, which is a NATO member, and ally of the United States, housing an American military base there.

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