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Iran drafts bill to block Hormuz for Persian Gulf oil tankers
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two third of it is in our territory
also the lanes that big ships can cross it are inside our territory , so we can say this ship can enter our territory and that ship can go and pass through UAE part of the Strait which is incidentally lass than 15m deep.
two third of it is in our territory
also the lanes that big ships can cross it are inside our territory , so we can say this ship can enter our territory and that ship can go and pass through UAE part of the Strait which is incidentally lass than 15m deep.
just there is some technical issue
KSA export 10m barrel and that pipe line only have capacity for 1-1.5m barrel ,well i guess they need you to transport the rest of the oil.
UAE also can export only 20-25% of its oil from that pipeline and the port that pipeline end to in the shore of Oman Sea can't service super tankers and only smaller tankers can use it.
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Yes,almost all of the tankers pas through Iranian part because oman and UAE parts are too shallow for them to cross it.
The situation is exactly like Suez canal.Iran can block all the ships of countries who are at war with us,officially or unofficially.And if US tries to stop our oil exports,then it is already declared war on Iran.Iran will not block Oman-part of strait,let the tankers cross from that part if they can.
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The deep part of Hormoz strait is in the Arab (Oman) part of this strait:
"Saudi Arabia also can avoid Hormuz by shipping its Gulf fields’ oil production out of its Red Sea ports"
http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/185937-emirates-readies-oil-export-detour-avoid-hormuz.html
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The deep part of Hormoz strait is in the Arab (Oman) part of this strait:
"Saudi Arabia also can avoid Hormuz by shipping its Gulf fields’ oil production out of its Red Sea ports"
http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/185937-emirates-readies-oil-export-detour-avoid-hormuz.html
only in east part the deeper part is in Oman sea ,but the part in Iran Land is also deep enough for ships , but the situation in west part of the strait of Hormuz is completely different , the only places that big ships can sail through is in Iran territory between Great and Lesser Tunb and Bumusa Island
these maps show where these sea lanes are
and UAE and KSA can detour ,yes but only a small amount of their export in case of UAE less than 25% and KSA about 1/10 of their export and KSA to Do that had to stop exporting Gas through that pipeline that it is also a problem
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Saudi Arabia has reopened an old oil pipeline built by Iraq to bypass Gulf shipping lanes, giving Riyadh scope to export more of its crude from Red Sea terminals should Iran try to block the Strait of Hormuz, industry sources say.
The Iraqi Pipeline in Saudi Arabia (IPSA), laid across the kingdom in the 1980s after oil tankers were attacked in the Gulf by both sides during the Iran-Iraq war, has not carried Iraqi crude since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990.
Saudi Arabia confiscated the pipeline in 2001 to compensate for debts owed by Baghdad and has used it to transport gas to power plants in the west of the country in the last few years.
Iran in January threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for U.S. and European sanctions that target its oil revenues in a bid to stop Iran's nuclear program.
A European Union ban on Iran's oil starts on Sunday and Israel has threatened military action against Iranian nuclear facilities if Iranian talks with Western powers fail to stop uranium enrichment.
Alarmed, Saudi Arabia has now quietly reconditioned IPSA to carry crude, test pumping along the line over the last four to five months, several sources with knowledge of the project say.
"The testing started because Saudi Arabia wanted to secure alternative routes to export oil," an industry source in Saudi Arabia said.
Western industry sources said the tests through the 1.65-million barrel-a-day line had delivered into storage facilities at Mu'ajjiz near Yanbu on the Red Sea for at least four months.
More than a third of the world's seaborne oil exports pass through the narrow Strait of Hormuz from the oilfields of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Qatar's liquefied natural gas exports are all shipped through Hormuz.
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This is going to piss Iran even more...
Saudi Arabia has reopened an old oil pipeline built by Iraq to bypass Gulf shipping lanes, giving Riyadh scope to export more of its crude from Red Sea terminals should Iran try to block the Strait of Hormuz, industry sources say.
The Iraqi Pipeline in Saudi Arabia (IPSA), laid across the kingdom in the 1980s after oil tankers were attacked in the Gulf by both sides during the Iran-Iraq war, has not carried Iraqi crude since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990.
Saudi Arabia confiscated the pipeline in 2001 to compensate for debts owed by Baghdad and has used it to transport gas to power plants in the west of the country in the last few years.
Iran in January threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for U.S. and European sanctions that target its oil revenues in a bid to stop Iran's nuclear program.
A European Union ban on Iran's oil starts on Sunday and Israel has threatened military action against Iranian nuclear facilities if Iranian talks with Western powers fail to stop uranium enrichment.
Alarmed, Saudi Arabia has now quietly reconditioned IPSA to carry crude, test pumping along the line over the last four to five months, several sources with knowledge of the project say.
"The testing started because Saudi Arabia wanted to secure alternative routes to export oil," an industry source in Saudi Arabia said.
Western industry sources said the tests through the 1.65-million barrel-a-day line had delivered into storage facilities at Mu'ajjiz near Yanbu on the Red Sea for at least four months.
More than a third of the world's seaborne oil exports pass through the narrow Strait of Hormuz from the oilfields of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Qatar's liquefied natural gas exports are all shipped through Hormuz.
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This is going to piss Iran even more...
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lol . look when you want to reuse a pipeline like that you can't just put the oil in it ! you must first scan it from the begining of the pipe to the end for a lot of problems that happen for the pipeline , then they must change the galvanic batteries of the pipeline , then they must equip it with controlling equipment , this will take 1-2 year , with US help maybe 1 year ..... and you can't compare a small river to a ocean ...
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Iran's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee has drafted a bill calling for Iran to try to stop oil tankers from shipping crude through the Strait of Hormuz to countries that support sanctions against it.
"There is a bill prepared in the National Security and Foreign Policy committee of Parliament that stresses the blocking of oil tanker traffic carrying oil to countries that have sanctioned Iran," Iranian MP Ibrahim Agha-Mohammadi was quoted by Iran's parliamentary news agency as saying on Monday.
"This bill has been developed as an answer to the European Union's oil sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran."
In-depth coverage of a growing regional debate
Agha-Mohammadi said that 100 of Tehran's 290 members of parliament had signed the bill as of Sunday.
Iran has been floating the threat of closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the oil-rich Gulf if its nuclear programme is targeted by air strikes that Israel and the United States reserve as an option.
While this is a preliminary move that may go no further, even a credible threat to shutting down the strait could lead to oil prices nearly doubling. So far, Iranian political and military officials have said they had no intention on carrying out any threat to close the strait.
Iranian threats to block the waterway through which about 17 million barrels a day sailed in 2011 have grown in the past year as US and European sanctions aimed at starving Tehran of funds for its nuclear programme have tightened.
A heavy western naval presence in the Gulf and surrounding area is a big impediment to any attempt to block the vital shipping route through which sails most of the crude exported from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Iraq and nearly all the gas exported from Qatar.
Iran's oil minister, Rostam Qasemi, told Al Jazeera in November that if pushed, Iran would be willing to use oil as a political tool, although oil and security experts at the time said that this was an unlikely move as Iran relies on the strait more than any other country in the region.
"Iran has no other outlet for its oil, so it would be cutting off its nose to spite its own face," one expert told Al Jazeera.
A European Union ban on imports of Iranian oil started on Sunday.
Iran's MPs debate Strait of Hormuz closure - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
Iran lawmakers prepare to close Hormuz Strait
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Published: 02 July, 2012, 18:26
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An oil tanker cruises towards the Strait of Hormuz off the shores of Khasab in Oman (AFP Photo / Marwan Naamani)
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Iranian lawmakers have drafted a bill that would close the Strait of Hormuz for oil tankers heading to countries supporting current economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
"There is a bill prepared in the National Security and Foreign Policy committee of Parliament that stresses the blocking of oil tanker traffic carrying oil to countries that have sanctioned Iran," Iranian MP Ibrahim Agha-Mohammadi told reporters.
"This bill has been developed as an answer to the European Union's oil sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran."
Agha-Mohammadi said that 100 of Tehran's 290 members of parliament had signed the bill as of Sunday.
Iran's threats to block the waterway through which about 17 million barrels a day sailed in 2011 have grown in the past year as US and European sanctions aimed at starving Tehran of funds for its nuclear programme have tightened.
The Strait of Hormuz is a vital shipping route through which most of the crude exported from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Iraq and nearly all the gas exported from Qatar sails.
An EU ban on Iranian oil imports came into effect on Sunday.
Investigative journalist and historian Gareth Porter believes the bill’s introduction is a step in a series of actions that Iran can take to hamper oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, causing oil prices to skyrocket.
“What we can look forward to in the coming weeks and months is that the Iranians will make a series of moves, beginning with this bill in the Majlis, threating to pass the bill; if that doesn’t have an effect, certainly going ahead with the passage,” Porter told RT. “Then first in a series of limited moves towards threatening to actually put mines in the strait to prevent the shipping of oil from going through. And then, I think, Iranians have the option of a very limited use of mines, with very few mines being dropped in this strait to try to get the price of oil to shoot up, for one thing, and to get the United States to react.”
World's 'most important oil transit chokepoint'
The US Energy Information Administration, a statistical and analytical agency within the Department of Energy, said the Strait of Hormuz was the world’s “most important oil transit chokepoint,” with a daily flow of 17 million barrels per day in 2011. This constitutes roughly 35 per cent of all seaborne traded oil, or 20 per cent of all oil traded worldwide, according to the agency.
The agency also estimates that an average 14 oil tankers passed through the strait every day last year, with a corresponding number of empty tankers entering the Persian Gulf to pick up new shipments. Over 85 per cent of the oil tankers passing through the strait were heading to destinations in East Asia, the majority of these going to China, India, South Korea and Japan.
Concerns over the Strait of Hormuz’s shutdown have prompted a number of Arab nations to seek alternative for its oil exports.
The United Arab Emirates recently unveiled the Habshan-Fujairah pipeline with a terminal in Fujairah, which is situated on the Gulf of Oman coastline past the Strait of Hormuz. The pipeline has a capacity of about 1.5 million barrels per day, still short of the UAE’s total oil production of 2.5 million barrels a day.
Iraqi officials recently announced plans to construct a pipeline to Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, allowing it to bypass the gulf altogether.
The Saudi Arabian East-West pipeline linking the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea is also being mulled as part of a possible bypass. However, that pipeline has a capacity of up to 5 million barrels a day, less than half the daily oil flow through the Strait of Hormuz. Saudi Arabia also recently reactivated the Iraqi Pipeline in Saudi Arabia, which also transports oil to the Red Sea, but has a comparatively meager capacity of 1.65 million barrels a day.
Transporting oil to the Mediterranean and Red Seas still raises the question of how it would reach its Asian clients.
The shortest route appears to be through the congested Suez Canal, via the Red Sea and into the Gulf of Aden, an area prone to attacks by Somali pirates.
However, the question of how to bypass the strait appears to concern not only US allies, but Iran itself. The country recently announced plans to build a new terminal in Bandar Jask, 100 miles east of the strait. A pipeline is also set to connect Bandar Jask with the Caspian port of Neka.
Iran lawmakers prepare to close Hormuz Strait — RT
"There is a bill prepared in the National Security and Foreign Policy committee of Parliament that stresses the blocking of oil tanker traffic carrying oil to countries that have sanctioned Iran," Iranian MP Ibrahim Agha-Mohammadi was quoted by Iran's parliamentary news agency as saying on Monday.
"This bill has been developed as an answer to the European Union's oil sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran."
In-depth coverage of a growing regional debate
Agha-Mohammadi said that 100 of Tehran's 290 members of parliament had signed the bill as of Sunday.
Iran has been floating the threat of closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the oil-rich Gulf if its nuclear programme is targeted by air strikes that Israel and the United States reserve as an option.
While this is a preliminary move that may go no further, even a credible threat to shutting down the strait could lead to oil prices nearly doubling. So far, Iranian political and military officials have said they had no intention on carrying out any threat to close the strait.
Iranian threats to block the waterway through which about 17 million barrels a day sailed in 2011 have grown in the past year as US and European sanctions aimed at starving Tehran of funds for its nuclear programme have tightened.
A heavy western naval presence in the Gulf and surrounding area is a big impediment to any attempt to block the vital shipping route through which sails most of the crude exported from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Iraq and nearly all the gas exported from Qatar.
Iran's oil minister, Rostam Qasemi, told Al Jazeera in November that if pushed, Iran would be willing to use oil as a political tool, although oil and security experts at the time said that this was an unlikely move as Iran relies on the strait more than any other country in the region.
"Iran has no other outlet for its oil, so it would be cutting off its nose to spite its own face," one expert told Al Jazeera.
A European Union ban on imports of Iranian oil started on Sunday.
Iran's MPs debate Strait of Hormuz closure - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
Iran lawmakers prepare to close Hormuz Strait
Get short URL email story to a friend print version
Published: 02 July, 2012, 18:26
Edited: 03 July, 2012, 02:31
An oil tanker cruises towards the Strait of Hormuz off the shores of Khasab in Oman (AFP Photo / Marwan Naamani)
(38.6Mb)embed video
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TAGS: Oil, Politics, Iran, Vessels, Sanctions
Iranian lawmakers have drafted a bill that would close the Strait of Hormuz for oil tankers heading to countries supporting current economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
"There is a bill prepared in the National Security and Foreign Policy committee of Parliament that stresses the blocking of oil tanker traffic carrying oil to countries that have sanctioned Iran," Iranian MP Ibrahim Agha-Mohammadi told reporters.
"This bill has been developed as an answer to the European Union's oil sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran."
Agha-Mohammadi said that 100 of Tehran's 290 members of parliament had signed the bill as of Sunday.
Iran's threats to block the waterway through which about 17 million barrels a day sailed in 2011 have grown in the past year as US and European sanctions aimed at starving Tehran of funds for its nuclear programme have tightened.
The Strait of Hormuz is a vital shipping route through which most of the crude exported from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Iraq and nearly all the gas exported from Qatar sails.
An EU ban on Iranian oil imports came into effect on Sunday.
Investigative journalist and historian Gareth Porter believes the bill’s introduction is a step in a series of actions that Iran can take to hamper oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, causing oil prices to skyrocket.
“What we can look forward to in the coming weeks and months is that the Iranians will make a series of moves, beginning with this bill in the Majlis, threating to pass the bill; if that doesn’t have an effect, certainly going ahead with the passage,” Porter told RT. “Then first in a series of limited moves towards threatening to actually put mines in the strait to prevent the shipping of oil from going through. And then, I think, Iranians have the option of a very limited use of mines, with very few mines being dropped in this strait to try to get the price of oil to shoot up, for one thing, and to get the United States to react.”
World's 'most important oil transit chokepoint'
The US Energy Information Administration, a statistical and analytical agency within the Department of Energy, said the Strait of Hormuz was the world’s “most important oil transit chokepoint,” with a daily flow of 17 million barrels per day in 2011. This constitutes roughly 35 per cent of all seaborne traded oil, or 20 per cent of all oil traded worldwide, according to the agency.
The agency also estimates that an average 14 oil tankers passed through the strait every day last year, with a corresponding number of empty tankers entering the Persian Gulf to pick up new shipments. Over 85 per cent of the oil tankers passing through the strait were heading to destinations in East Asia, the majority of these going to China, India, South Korea and Japan.
Concerns over the Strait of Hormuz’s shutdown have prompted a number of Arab nations to seek alternative for its oil exports.
The United Arab Emirates recently unveiled the Habshan-Fujairah pipeline with a terminal in Fujairah, which is situated on the Gulf of Oman coastline past the Strait of Hormuz. The pipeline has a capacity of about 1.5 million barrels per day, still short of the UAE’s total oil production of 2.5 million barrels a day.
Iraqi officials recently announced plans to construct a pipeline to Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, allowing it to bypass the gulf altogether.
The Saudi Arabian East-West pipeline linking the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea is also being mulled as part of a possible bypass. However, that pipeline has a capacity of up to 5 million barrels a day, less than half the daily oil flow through the Strait of Hormuz. Saudi Arabia also recently reactivated the Iraqi Pipeline in Saudi Arabia, which also transports oil to the Red Sea, but has a comparatively meager capacity of 1.65 million barrels a day.
Transporting oil to the Mediterranean and Red Seas still raises the question of how it would reach its Asian clients.
The shortest route appears to be through the congested Suez Canal, via the Red Sea and into the Gulf of Aden, an area prone to attacks by Somali pirates.
However, the question of how to bypass the strait appears to concern not only US allies, but Iran itself. The country recently announced plans to build a new terminal in Bandar Jask, 100 miles east of the strait. A pipeline is also set to connect Bandar Jask with the Caspian port of Neka.
Iran lawmakers prepare to close Hormuz Strait — RT
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Iran has been forced to take this kind of step , until now Iran never said anything as it was not against all the People and Iran itself
not it is against the Iran and everyone in Iran
excuse me it is not a regime Iran, it is democratically elected President and mayor
Ahmadinejad will not run next election as he might lose he know that if he was a part of the regime then he would remain in power for ever
not it is against the Iran and everyone in Iran
excuse me it is not a regime Iran, it is democratically elected President and mayor
Ahmadinejad will not run next election as he might lose he know that if he was a part of the regime then he would remain in power for ever
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Most part of the strait is within Irans territory.
Irans navy didnt got ''wiped'' out. US only destroyed some defenceless oil rigs and few speedboats that were armed with only rpgs and machinegun. But today is different, we have tens of thousands of guided and unguided rockets and missiles that can be launched from our boats and ships. This is very serious business for the US and that is why they do not start anything stupid against us.
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He doesn't run for presidency because he can't according to law.President can not run for presidency after 2 consecutive terms.
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They damaged one of our destroyers and sank one (we had three British-made Iranian destroyer, my memory is failing now). But the guy is clueless, the Iranian Navy didn't really get wiped out, it took heavy damages, but then again, it was a surprise attack when we were fighting with Iraq. The USA acted like cowards to make a surprise attack on a country who already was in a bloody war with its neighbor. Nothing to be proud of.
To him, you should remind him of how his beloved Saddam's navy got wiped out by the Iranian navy in only one day. In operation Morvarid, only in one day, close to 80% of the Saddam navy got destroyed by the Iranian naval forces. That's more than enough to shut his mouth, especially the amount of love he has for his hero Saddam who was pulled out like a rat in the middle of nowhere in a desert rat hole.
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US does not receive oil from Hormuz. By closing it Iran will achieve two things:Ḥashshāshīn;3135049 said:
1) Destroy own economy, which is on 80% based on oil sales.
2) Piss off China.
In short Iran is doing what it always does: bluffing.
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why do you think we are going to make a wall over hormuz?
that is very simple.those tankers who bring oil for US and EU wont be able to cross the Iranian part of hormuz.that is all.
Iran's oil export and china's oil import will continue.
and also 50% of Iran economy is based on oil.the number you are saying is about export.
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