Washington called for the end of Iraq’s energy imports from Iran – Mehr News Agency | Iranian and world news

Yesterday, on March 5, 2009, the renewal of US sanctions exemptions to Iraq on Iran’s gas imports ended and the Iraqi government cannot use Iranian gas to generate electricity, according to the Mehr News Agency.

US State Department spokesman Tommy Bruce said all the sanctions exemptions that helped Iran were economically voiced by the Iraqi government should have ended in the Iraqi government. The closest The possible time will end its reliance on Iranian energy sources.

The US State Department spokesman responded to a question about whether it could pay for electricity to Iran if it extended exemption to Iraq for energy imports: We will not announce anything about the current sanctions exemption that was completed on March 6.

We examine all the current sanctions exemptions that allow Iran to benefit economic and financial.

US President Donald Trump said in his first speech in the new presidency that we advise the Iraqi government to rely on Iran’s energy in the closest possible time and that the Iraqi Prime Minister’s adherence to this would lead to energy in energy.

The Trump administration emphasized its determination to re -sign a sanctions exemption again, and is seeking maximum pressure on Iran, according to the National Security Document on February 7.

Although Iraq is one of the great powers in the field of energy, it suffers from lack of self -sufficiency in both gas and electricity. It offsets part of this deficiency by relying on Iran.

Iraqi economic experts have announced the lack of half of the electricity generation in Basra province by stopping Iranian gas.

Saadon Lami, a member of the Iraqi Parliament’s Oil and Gas Committee, said there was no other replacement for Iraq’s current power plants at the present time. He further stated that cutting off gas imports from Iran would reduce the hours of electricity production; Especially that summer is very hot in Baghdad and other provinces.