Today, Monday, pro-regime Syrian and Iranian media outlets carried reports denying Iran’s rise oil price The source is to Syria, while the official Syrian agency “SANA” confirmed that the two sides agreed to renew the long-term strategic cooperation document between the two countries to sign it in the near future, in addition to what the official Iranian agency “IRNA” said regarding discussing a project aimed at establishing thermal energy production plants. In syria.
Today, the Syrian newspaper, Al-Watan, which is close to Bashar al-Assad’s regime, quoted Iranian sources as confirming that the talks that took place during President al-Assad’s meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdollahian were characterized by positivity and seriousness, especially since this visit comes in light of new and rapid developments taking place in the region. and increasing pressure on both countries.
On raising the price of oil and delaying the period between each two shipments, Iranian sources add to the Syrian newspaper that “Iran knows what the Syrian people are suffering as a result of the blockade and external pressures, and it has taken a decision to stand by it in economic war which is being launched once morest him, and does not demand in return at any price,” alluding to what was published by the “Wall Street Journal” yesterday, regarding Iran doubling the price of oil for Damascus: “The issue of the oil supply is coordinated between the senior leaderships of the two countries, and any information published outside the leadership of the two countries is wrong and incorrect Pointing at the same time to the serious intention of the two countries “to sign a long-term strategic cooperation agreement, similar to the agreement that Iran signed with some world powers.”
Negation of negation
And the American newspaper had reported yesterday that Iran refused to increase the supply to meet the growing demand in Syria, and even doubled the price that the Syrian regime pays for crude oil, which caused the current fuel shortage in Syria, because the volume of oil that Tehran sent to Damascus in the last quarter of The year 2022 is the same as the previous year.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the credit line that previously allowed Syria to pay later was quickly exhausted following Iran raised the price from an average of $30 a barrel, prompting Tehran to impose advance fees in return for supplying the regime with oil, referring to a statement by a spokesman for the Oil Exporters Union. And gas and petrochemicals in Tehran Hamid Hosseini: “Iran itself is under pressure, and there is no reason to sell to Syria at low prices.”
Private sources told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed from Damascus, “Indeed, rationing Iranian oil and delaying shipments to Damascus have already been proposed,” revealing that Syria does not benefit from all the crude oil that comes from Iran, but rather it is refined at the Baniyas refinery, and some of it is exported from Syria for the benefit of Tehran.
Syrian sources confirm that Iranian oil shipments have “reduced in pace” over the past year “following Iran was relatively excluded and the regime submitted to Russia,” which prompted Iran to delay oil shipments and demand money from the lines of credit it signed with Damascus, the latest of which was during the regime’s president’s visit to Tehran in May. From last year, “Iran wants 70 dollars a barrel, while in the past it used to supply Syria with regarding 40 dollars.”
Relationship change
The sources refer to the economic hardship that the Iranian street is suffering from and the lack of gas throughout the country, so it is “desperate to hear news like this regarding raising oil prices for Syria.” However, the sources added that “the change in relations between Damascus and Tehran is linked to the results of the Iranian president’s visit to Syria and Turkey” because Iran, according to the sources, fears the Turkish-Syrian rapprochement under Russian auspices, “because this will limit its role on the ground, especially following the city of Aleppo, which is dominated by Tehran, was proposed as part of Turkey’s demands for solutions and normalization.”
According to sources from the port of Baniyas, western Syria, the last Iranian oil tanker loaded with one million barrels arrived at the Syrian port of Baniyas in early January, which ensured the continuation of the refinery’s work and the distribution of oil derivatives to the governorates according to the allocations specified for each of them. Gas, with a load of regarding 4,000 tons, would reduce the waiting time to receive the domestic gas cylinder according to the smart card.
The Syrian market suffers from a severe shortage of oil derivatives, following the decline in production from regarding 380,000 barrels per day in 2011, to regarding 20,000 barrels in regime-controlled areas, which has increased the suffering and import expenses, with a consumption estimated by specialists at regarding 200,000 barrels per day, which has brought the price of a liter of diesel into the market. Free for regarding 13 thousand pounds, and gasoline for regarding 14 thousand pounds.
