Iraq's Oil Export Challenges and Alliances

It’s registered with you, sir. Doctor, Iraq is your ally. Let us bring out our ships and sell our oil. We have no salaries.

Let us bring out our ships and sell our oil. We have no salaries.

Allow Iraq to export oil.

I mean—

I am not from—

No, no. In your opinion, why doesn’t Iran—okay, okay, sorry, but I mean—

We need to export oil, and we are allies of Iran.

Why are you stopping us, sir? Everything is registered. These ships—so-and-so and so-and-so—

and so-and-so. Do you want us to name them after the battles? We don’t have that.

Let our ships go, sir. Why are you stopping us from exporting our oil?

No, no, honestly, Doctor.

No, what you’re saying is correct. I don’t want to say no—

but I’m not aware of how or why.

I hope not. I mean, if you have a phone, call the brothers in the Revolutionary Guard.

We are—

allies—

not your people.

Are we your people or not, brother? Let us export oil.

There’s no money. Iraq has none. Saudi Arabia has things well arranged.

The UAE has money. Iraq doesn’t.

Doctor, speak to the people and tell them, I mean, is it— is it—

conceivable that Iraq—

How could Iraq—at your service, my dear. Fine—

Fine.

Let us export oil.

Doctor, let us export oil.

I mean, is it conceivable that America is blockading Iraq?

America blockaded us in the nineties, and Iran is blockading us in

two thousand twenty-six. Now we're exporting two hundred barrels to

Syria and elsewhere, and we've gone back—gone back to the Umayyads.

We're exporting through the Umayyads.

Are you laughing? This is the truth, Doctor. It is—

This is painful. We don't have any salaries.

I don't know how to tell you this. The truth is painful. People—

I mean, Iraq is under threat now, Doctor. I mean—

I'm very sorry, but that's how the story turned out. I know you—

But I hope the brothers, the people who—

receive this message—

I mean, the first problem—the problem is that

Iraq's oil is in the American Treasury

and the Treasury—

What does that have to do with you, Doctor? What does it have to do with the mother treasury?

We can come to an understanding with the Americans. But let us export

oil. Why are you blockading us, sir? No, then—

Then, Doctor, please, you— Look, I'm critical of Iran.

When you allow us to export oil, you rub our noses in it.

Those of us who criticize Iran, after criticizing it, feel that there's—

The advantage is that Iraq's relations with Iran are finally good.

Are we supposed to celebrate now? What have we gained from this alliance, sir?

Yes, no, Doctor.

No, you're right.

Yes, I swear.

Indeed, I swear.

Talk to them, and God willing, it'll work out. Now let's go to Professor Ashiq.

Professor. Professor. Professor Ashiq, why can't there be

a

clear, direct negotiation with Iran

between the Kingdom and

Iran, I mean, specifically.