{"id":72780,"date":"2026-04-19T11:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/72780\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:29:11","slug":"iea-head-pitches-iraq-turkey-pipeline-to-bypass-hormuz-hurriyet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/72780\/","title":{"rendered":"IEA Head Pitches Iraq-Turkey Pipeline to Bypass Hormuz: H\u00fcrriyet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol proposed building a new oil pipeline linking Iraq\u2019s Basra oil fields and Turkey\u2019s Mediterranean oil terminal in Ceyhan to shift the balance away from the Strait of Hormuz, according to Turkish newspaper H\u00fcrriyet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cI believe a Basra\u2013Ceyhan pipeline could be extremely attractive and a very important project for both Iraq and Turkey, as well as for regional supply security\u2014especially from Europe\u2019s perspective,\u201d Birol said in an interview with H\u00fcrriyet, published on Sunday. \u201cI also believe the financing issue can be overcome. Now is exactly the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol proposed building a new oil pipeline linking Iraq\u2019s Basra oil fields&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[25458,54,8335,3199,23362,6210,34,94,207,69,1176],"class_list":{"0":"post-72780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-bypass","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-fatih-birol","11":"tag-generic-1st-cl-future","12":"tag-generic-1st-ng-future","13":"tag-international-energy-agency","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-iraq","16":"tag-markets","17":"tag-tehran","18":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116431143725719608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72780","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=72780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}