Aramco, the Victim of White House Decision

IRAN NEWS POLITICAL DESK

Saudi Arabia’s Aramco Refinery is in Abquaiq region and it is huge oil-processing facilities, located in the desert 60 km southwest of the Dhahran-Dammam-Khobar metropolitan area and it is considered as the biggest crude oil refinery in the world.

In this refinery, sour crude oil is converted into sweet oil crude and then it is exported to European states in the Mediterranean Sea by passing the west-to east route in the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea by  rounding the Arabian Peninsula.

According to the statistics, oil refining capacity of Aramco is around 7m barrels per day. Kharis Oil Refinery was one of the other targets of Yemen’s Houthis which is located 160 kilometers from Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. With available information that oil in these two refineries are not refined and it is not exported to the international markets, we can say up to one-thirds of oil which is exported from the Persian Gulf has been disrupted seriously and until further notice, return to this level of exports is still unclear.

So regarding this shortage of oil, a question is raised why the oil price did not rise and it seems smelly and disputable. The first assumption is that the U.S. had predicted such an attack. In this case, one can say that all those cruise missiles and drones had been fired or dispatched by the U.S. itself in order to destroy Aramco because it had been earlier reported that Aramco Company was to be listed in New York Stock Market by 2020 and according to the reports, the estimates of company’s total value were around $400b and if Saudi Arabia decided to sell only 25 percent of the shares of the company, almost $100b from the liquidity could fly from the U.S. market. And it could mean U.S. President Donald Trump’s hanging. So the first assumption is that the U.S. had activated its strategic reservoirs to curb the shocks related to the attacks and then arranged the attacks at Aramco to destroy it.

The second assumption is that why the U.S. has accused Iran of the attack since the very first minutes. It could be pre-planned attack and plot, and according to the plan, the U.S. was to accuse Iran of the attacks and consequently, they could claim that Iran had directly helped Yemeni forces, or Yemenis would take the responsibilities of the attacks in order to save Iran from charges, and Iran also would, in return, say Yemenis have done a masterpiece, and U.S. acts and decisions could be overshadowed or ignored by those claims.

According to reports, weeks after the attack, some parts of the refinery are still out of work and Al-Saud is unable to repair it.

Aramco, the Victim of White House Decision

The third assumption is that Yemeni forces by their attack at the refinery have boosted their morale for their attack at Jizan Airport and destroying Saudi Arabian ground force squadron. And Saudi Arabians due to repeated defeats have gone into solitude because the U.S. and its allies have not come to their rescue.

The fourth assumption is that Ansarullah forces’s last month vast attack on Saudi Arabia’s biggest strategic oil reservoirs which produces over billion barrels of oil by using 10 drones, or their attacks by using drones on Aramco’s oil pumping facilities in last May in Afif Province west of Saudi Arabia all indicate the huge and significant progress and courage of Houthis in launching such attacks. This power has put Saudis in a condition to look for mediator in order to ask Houthis to stop disgracing them more in the world by revealing more photos and statistics about their attacks.

Al Saud were wrong from the beginning. Committing a vast fratricide like what Zionist regime does in killing innocent children caused a hatred among Muslims in the world towards Saudis which will be remembered for ever.

Let’s assume that if Saudis, from the first moment that the dispute between Houthis and the Yemen government began, just tried to resort to holding a referendum and accepting the public opinion, where they could stand now. If Saudis with a popular approach tried to help Yemeni people, then there would be no war and now there could be a popular government in Sanaa and they could consider themselves as supporters of Yemeni people, such a massacre and genocide would not have happened. That approach could save huge wealth of both countries from being wasted for fratricide. How much of this war cost could have been used spent for satisfaction of Muslim people in the region? This diabolic act by reliance on the U.S. had no result but to drag insecurity and foreigners to the region and encourage them. By the way Aramco Company could be warmly welcomed for being listed in the New York Stock Market because the U.S. has no other option than investing in the Middle East.

Today Saudi Arabia is disgraced and winners of this fratricide are UK, the U.S. and Zionist regime. Suppose Saudi Arabia like Iraq, Syria and Lebanon tried to get closer to Iran, today what a great role it could play in administering global policies of Islam. Avoiding ignorance and treason as well as dependence which devastate the nations.

 By: Hamid Reza Naghashian