{"id":96070,"date":"2026-05-03T19:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/96070\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T19:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:45:24","slug":"syria-rejects-claims-of-crude-oil-shipments-from-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/96070\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria rejects claims of crude oil shipments from Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-02T22:04:57+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- Damascus<\/p>\n<p>Syria\u2019s state oil company denied reports on Saturday that 70<br \/>\ntanker trucks carrying crude oil for export had entered the country from Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Safwan Sheikh Ahmad, director of government communication at the Syrian<br \/>\nPetroleum Company, said in a statement that the tankers waiting on the Iraqi<br \/>\nside to cross through Al-Yarubiyah border crossing are loaded with fuel oil,<br \/>\nnot crude, and originate from nearby Iraqi refineries. He explained that<br \/>\nrerouting the shipments via Al-Yarubiyah and along the M4 highway toward<br \/>\nBaniyas, instead of the Al-Tanf crossing, is driven by logistical<br \/>\nconsiderations to shorten distance and time. Ahmad added that there has been no<br \/>\nchange in the nature of contracts or agreed materials.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777753781178.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The crossing underwent rehabilitation and maintenance work<br \/>\nby Syrian and Iraqi authorities before its official <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Economy\/Iraq-Syria-Rabia-crossing-reopens-after-years-of-closure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reopening<\/a> on April 20.<br \/>\nEarlier, the first Iraqi oil convoys <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Economy\/Nearly-300-Iraqi-fuel-trucks-cross-into-Syria-via-Al-Tanf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">entered<\/a> through the Al-Tanf\u2013Al-Waleed<br \/>\ncrossing on April 1, heading to the Baniyas refinery.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777753781775.webp\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-02T22:04:57+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Damascus Syria\u2019s state oil company denied reports on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[33782,15489,152,94,7248,95,33781],"class_list":["post-96070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-al-yarubiyah","tag-borders","tag-breaking","tag-iraq","tag-oil-shipment","tag-syria","tag-syria-rejects-claims-of-crude-oil-shipments-from-iraq"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116512366525383296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96070","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=96070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}