Iraq MPs Demand Halt To Jordan Oil Sales Over Support For US Strikes

The lawmakers want to end subsidized oil sales to Jordan after accusing the kingdom of assisting US forces carrying out airstrikes which killed 17 Iraqis

Iraqi lawmakers have called for a parliament session to discuss halting the sale of subsidized oil to Jordan following a wave of US strikes in Iraq and Syria.

Rudaw reported on 5 February that the lawmakers accuse Jordan of providing material support for the US attacks that killed at least 17 people in Iraq on Friday.

Mustafa Sanad, an independent Shia lawmaker, told Rudaw on Sunday, "When the Americans come to bomb us, who provides the fuel to their planes?" Sanad asked, referring to Jordan.

"They receive it from neighboring countries, like Jordan and others. Jordan benefits from a third of the Iraqi Central Bank's foreign currency transactions. We have to pressure them to stop this... We should stop selling crude oil to Jordan."

The US strikes followed a drone strike last week, which killed at least three US soldiers and injured dozens more at Tower 22, a US military base in northeast Jordan near the Syrian border. The US occupies another base, Al-Tanf, on the Syrian side of the border, where it has trained members of ISIS and other armed groups seeking to topple the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad.

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Somewhere in the answer to that question, is the prime reason for why BRICS is rising..

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