{"id":259420,"date":"2026-08-21T18:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/259420\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T18:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:38:10","slug":"shafaq-news-iraq-signals-push-to-deepen-energy-ties-with-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/259420\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafaq News..Iraq signals push to deepen energy ties with Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-08-21T18:18:03+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Riyadh<\/p>\n<p>Iraq is looking to build closer energy<br \/>\ncooperation with Saudi Arabia, Oil Minister Bassem al-Abadi said on Friday,<br \/>\ncasting stronger ties with Riyadh as part of a broader effort to deepen<br \/>\nBaghdad&#8217;s relations across the region. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Al-Abadi said his visit<br \/>\nfocused on cooperation in gas, energy and electricity, as well as potential<br \/>\njoint projects. He added that both sides agreed to strengthen bilateral ties<br \/>\nand maintain high-level coordination.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq, under Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi, is<br \/>\nworking to diversify its energy and export options as the closure of the Strait<br \/>\nof Hormuz restricts crude shipments. On Monday, Al-Zaidi <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Economy\/PM-Al-Zaidi-orders-round-the-clock-oil-operations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ordered<\/a> oil companies<br \/>\nto operate around the clock to sustain production and boost exports, while<br \/>\npressing officials to accelerate pipeline upgrades and develop alternative<br \/>\nroutes to reduce the country\u2019s dependence on Hormuz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-21T18:18:03+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Riyadh Iraq is looking to build closer energy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,52480,94,71360,39384,50],"class_list":["post-259420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-breaking","tag-energy-cooperation","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-signals-push-to-deepen-energy-ties-with-saudi-arabia","tag-oil-minister","tag-saudi-arabia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117134957178464332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}