{"id":28915,"date":"2026-03-20T21:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/28915\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:19:12","slug":"iraq-slashes-oil-output-by-70-amid-middle-east-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/28915\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq slashes oil output by 70% amid Middle East war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"63\" data-end=\"243\">Iraq has reduced its oil production by around 70% compared to pre-war levels, a source from the country\u2019s Oil Ministry said, as the Middle East conflict continues to disrupt energy flows, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/3\/20\/iran-war-live-tehran-warns-of-intensified-strikes-if-energy-sites-targeted\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jazeera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"245\" data-end=\"344\">The cuts include the shutdown of six oilfields in the southern province of <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/drone-strikes-hit-us-energy-firm-and-basra-international-airport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Basra<\/a>, the source added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/nijat-babayev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Nijat Babayev<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iraq has reduced its oil production by around 70% compared to pre-war levels, a source from the country\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5277,94,49,13504,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-28915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-basra","9":"tag-iraq","10":"tag-middle-east","11":"tag-oil-output","12":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116263594389166078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915","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=28915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}