Iran Begins Supplying Basra With Electricity

[Orwellian_Ghost]

Iran supplies Basra with electricity

(MENAFN) A senior Iraqi official announced the opening of the power line (Alharth - Meelad Abadan) for the transfer of electrical energy from Iran to the Iraqi province of Basra with the capacity of 200 megawatts, Iraq Directory reported.

He pointed out that the project was financed by an Iranian loan and the efforts of the General Directorate of Electricity. Working at the project took seven months, he said, while Iraqi security forces have cleared the areas through which the line passes of mines.

https://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093189911

[panader0]

1. Halliburton couldn't handle it so Iran does it.. Jeez.........

[bahrbearian]

2. So is Iran now using its nuclear power to meddle

in Iraq?

[Orwellian_Ghost]

3. Heh?

Is that a State Department release?

[bahrbearian]

5. No John McCain.

[Winterblues]

8. Some could call humanitarian aid meddling

We couldn't provide electricity in over five years but Iran can do it in seven months. It shows who cares for the Iraqi people doesn't it?

[Igel]

9. Shows you who the people bombing pylons respect.

Of course, "respect" is a weaselly word here.

If the Iraqi government or US puts them up, they get knocked down. The result: An electricity shortage that gets blamed on the US or the Iraqi government, while inflicting what would be called "collective punishment" if it were more mild and displaced a bit to the west. It's humiliation for the Iraqi government and US, unable to prevent chaos like a good daddy-state should.

If the Iranian government puts it up, they stay up. The result: Electricity being provided not just by the Iranians, but with the complicity of one of the militias in Basra, the Mehdi Army. Which means, of course, courtesy of al-Sadr, who's in Iran doing a crash course in ayatollah-hood so he can be called an ayatollah and have not just a bunch of people with guns cheering him on, but a group of imams doing likewise. It's a point of honor for the Iranian's and Sadr, able to care for those under his protection.

The same point could have been made when Neejad was in town.

As with many other groups, they are the chaos they seek to control, and until you submit (there's that word again) they make your life hell. However, we love to hear justifications why their chaos, primarily hurting the innocent, is both inevitable and our fault.

[ensho]

4. kick

nt

[magellan]

6. Mommy, I'm scared!

I thought winning hearts and minds required collateral damage?...

[libodem]

7. Uh oh

Now we can bomb them for supplying material support to terrorists. Remember NO good deed goes unpunished.

[Junkdrawer]

10. Look, Iran, we're trying to starve Iraq into signing the Oil Sharing law...

Supplying them food and electricity is not helpful.