An Iranian warning of the consequences of Iraq stopping importing electricity

[size=52]An Iranian warning of the consequences of Iraq stopping importing electricity[/size]


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[size=45]A member of the Iranian Parliament's Energy Committee, Hossein Hosseinzadeh, said on Wednesday that Iraq will soon dispense with importing Iranian electricity.[/size]
[size=45]In an interview with the Iranian "ILNA" news agency, Representative Hossein Zadeh urged his country's government to consider plans to export electricity.[/size]
[size=45]He added that "Iraq will replace Iranian electricity in the coming years, so it is necessary to think about changing the process of producing electricity for this country and contributing to supplying the country with electricity by establishing a special base so that we can benefit from it."[/size]
[size=45]The Iranian parliamentarian spoke about his country's energy exports to Iraq, and said: "Iraq seeks to develop investment in oil, gas, and electricity, and develop its infrastructure for the next twenty years."[/size]
[size=45]Hussein Zadeh expected that during the next eight years, Iraq would be able to expand and develop the oil sector to the point that it could dispense with Iranian gas, and would do the same in the field of electricity.[/size]
[size=45]He stated that, "In addition to electricity import contracts with countries such as Turkey, Iraq intends to expand its electric network in the form of a combined cycle, to generate nuclear energy, and now it has the largest electricity generation contracts with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Germany, in the field of hydroelectric and renewable energy." According to the network toss.[/size]
[size=45]Referring to the danger that Iran might lose contracts to export electricity to Iraq and gas to Turkey in the next stage, he said: “In this regard, special attention must also be given to electricity and gas to Iraq and Turkey, and the difference between them is that Turkey consumes gas, but Iraq will produce gas within the few years. The future, so diplomacy must change our gas and electricity compared to neighboring countries, because we cannot move forward with the previous version.”[/size]
[size=45]A member of the Iranian Parliament's Energy Committee revealed that Iraq has started paying its debts in the field of electricity and gas to Iran.[/size]
[size=45]Iran demands Iraq to pay debts of up to 6 billion dollars in arrears, which are bills owed by the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity, which is prevented by US sanctions from paying any amount in dollars to Iran.[/size]
[size=45]And the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity announced, last Friday, the complete completion of the electrical interconnection plan with Turkey, indicating at the same time its readiness to pay all Iranian debts.[/size]
[size=45]"Iran has recently reduced its gas exports to Iraq from 50 million cubic meters per day to 8 million cubic meters in a major blow to the Iraqi electricity grid," the ministry's spokesman, Ahmed Moussa, said in a statement.[/size]
[size=45]A spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity also announced the completion of the project to connect the Iraqi electricity network with Turkey, saying that “the only thing left to import electricity from Turkey is to agree on the volume of imports and tariffs.”[/size]
[size=45]Iraq relies on Iran in the field of energy, as it imports a third of its gas and electricity needs, due to its dilapidated infrastructure, which makes it unable to achieve self-sufficiency.[/size]
[size=45]Iraq produces 19,000 megawatts of electric power, while the actual need exceeds 30,000 megawatts, according to officials in the electricity sector.[/size]
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