{"id":181417,"date":"2021-03-22T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=181417"},"modified":"2021-03-21T06:37:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T06:37:00","slug":"syria-losses-in-oil-stolen-by-us-and-its-allies-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/03\/syria-losses-in-oil-stolen-by-us-and-its-allies-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria: Losses in Oil Stolen by US and Its Allies Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>19 Mar 2021 &#8211; <em>90 percent of Syria\u2019s oil resources are under the control of Washington and its allies, Oil Minister Bassam Touma has revealed.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_181418\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/syria-usa-oil-stolen.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-181418\" class=\"wp-image-181418 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/syria-usa-oil-stolen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/syria-usa-oil-stolen.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/syria-usa-oil-stolen-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-181418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Syria\u2019s oil minister says the uninvited US and its allied Takfiri militants are plundering crude oil reserves in the war-torn Arab country just like pirates. | Photo: Twitter @360CNN<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"txt_newworld\">\n<p>Syria\u2019s oil resources are not as significant as those of other countries in the region but were sufficient to guarantee the country\u2019s energy self-sufficiency and allowed Damascus to earn a modest income from exports. Since 2011, much of these resources have been damaged or looted, first by jihadists and then by the U.S. military and their Kurdish allies.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety percent of Syria\u2019s oil resources are under the control of Washington and its allies, Oil Minister Bassam Touma has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans and their allies are targeting the Syrian oil wealth and its tankers just like pirates,\u201d Touma said, speaking to Syrian News Channel on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Related<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/US-Reinforces-Military-Presence-in-Syria-20210318-0021.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><em><strong>The US Reinforces Military Presence in Syria<\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat has happened all through the war in Syria has not happened in any country, in terms of preventing us from tapping our wealth and at the same time stopping basic commodities from reaching our country,\u201d Touma added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Syrian Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources, Bassam Tohme, said on Thursday, that the total losses in the direct and indirect oil sector in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Syria?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#Syria<\/a> due to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USArmy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >@USArmy<\/a> theft have exceeded $92 billion (USD).<br \/> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LtBO2ygJqf\" >https:\/\/t.co\/LtBO2ygJqf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mats Nilsson (@mazzenilsson) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mazzenilsson\/status\/1372997469852827661?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >March 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The minister estimated direct and indirect damage to Syria\u2019s oil sector of over $92 billion and stressed that the industry had been targeted deliberately by its enemies because it is a crucial income source for the country\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Syria produced about 400,000 barrels of oil per day before the war. With this income, worth about $730 million a month, the country met its energy needs, accounting for over 20 percent of state revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2014 and 2017, the Daesh group\u00a0occupied much of the country\u2019s oil fields, looting and destroying infrastructure and illegally shipping hundreds of thousands of tons of black gold out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Washington redeployed troops from the Syrian-Turkish border into the oil-rich interior of northeastern Syria, with President Donald Trump admitting freely that the US\u2019s main aim was to \u201ctake\u201d and \u201ckeep the oil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has resorted to a milder language but has likewise kept the oil-siphoning activities in place. The Russian military has estimated that the US and its allies earn at least $30 million a month on their oil-plundering business.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FromTheSouth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#FromTheSouth<\/a> News Bits | Syria denounces Israel&#39;s promotion of a terrorist war imposed on their country, stressing that over the past ten years Tel Aviv has not ceased to support extremist groups on Syrian soil and launch air strikes from Israeli territory. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K99KaMgZjx\" >pic.twitter.com\/K99KaMgZjx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/telesurenglish\/status\/1372721986917572608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >March 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"twitter-67\" class=\"ck-twitter\">\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/Syria--Losses-in-Oil-Stolen-by-US-and-Its-Allies-Revealed-20210319-0021.html\" >Go to Original &#8211; telesurenglieh.net<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 Mar 2021 &#8211; Syria\u2019s oil minister says the uninvited US and its allied Takfiri militants are plundering crude oil reserves in the war-torn Arab country just like pirates. Since 2011, much of the oil resources have been damaged or looted, first by jihadists and then by the U.S. military and their Kurdish allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":181418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[867,1126,1050,950,1624,86,754,2059,2114,413,95,70],"class_list":["post-181417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syria-in-context","tag-anglo-america","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-invasion","tag-mafia","tag-occupation","tag-oil","tag-organized-crime","tag-pariah-state","tag-syria","tag-us-military","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}