Iraqi aspirations to move ahead with a long-planned crude pipeline from Basrah to Aqaba in Jordan have been dealt a major blow after Ali al-Asadi, head of Iraq's Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba (HaN), said the project will "never" happen. Al-Asadi issued the statement after Iraqi lawmaker Mustafa Jabbar Sanad revealed that Jordanian officials had met with senior Iraqi Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish officials and agreed on the pipeline's implementation.

Iraq Militia states that Basrah-Aqaba oil pipeline ‘will never be’

Posted On: February 28, 2023

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Iraqi aspirations to move ahead with a long-planned crude pipeline from Basrah to Aqaba in Jordan have been dealt a major blow after Ali al-Asadi, head of Iraq’s Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba (HaN), said the project will “never” happen. Al-Asadi issued the statement after Iraqi lawmaker Mustafa Jabbar Sanad revealed that Jordanian officials had met with senior Iraqi Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish officials and agreed on the pipeline’s implementation.