TEHRAN (Iran News) –While the nations and countries in recent days have been busy with different issues like cold, fuel shortage, high prices and inflation, the U.S. is comfortably busy with looting the wealth of Syrian nation by smuggling Syrian oil to Iraq and other countries and nobody dares to react to this crime and even the United Nations is silent and acts as a looker-on.

Syria is not in a good economic condition due to the interventionist policies of the West and terrorist groups inside its own land and at the same time the U.S. forces, which pretend their presence in Syria’s land is aimed at keeping peace in Syria and defending the country, ares busy with looting the wealth of this Arab country and everyday several tankers of oil are smuggled from Syria by the U.S. troops and no international body is willing to bother and at least take some stand against this crime.

A couple of days ago the Syrian government once again accused the United States of “stealing oil” from fields in the north-east of the country.

“The American forces brought this morning [Monday] to the Iraqi territory a convoy of vehicles, most of them were tanks loaded with oil they had stolen from the countryside of Hasaka, through illegal crossings in Hasaka’s eastern countryside,” the Syrian news agency SANA said.

Citing civilian sources, SANA said a convoy of 37 oil tanks and a number of other vehicles, protected by American military vehicles, arrived in Iraq through the Mahmoudiya crossing, north-east of Syria.

The accusation against Washington coincides with an unprecedented fuel crisis in the areas under its control.

Syria has repeatedly accused the U.S. of stealing its resources. In August, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed that the losses incurred by the oil and gas sector in the country amounted to $107.1 billion since the outbreak of the revolution in 2011.

The ministry held Washington and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) responsible for these losses.

Prior to the 2011 war, Syria produced about 400,000 barrels of oil per day.

U.S. military trucks and tankers frequently carry tons of grain and crude oil from the northeastern Syrian province of Hasakah to the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq as part of Washington’s systematic smuggling of basic commodities out of Syria.

The U.S. military has for long stationed its forces and equipment in northeastern Syria, with the Pentagon claiming that the deployment is aimed at preventing the oilfields in the area from falling into the hands of the Daesh terrorists.

Damascus, however, maintains the deployment is meant to plunder the Arab country’s natural resources.

Former U.S. president Donald Trump admitted on several occasions that American forces were in the Arab country for its oil wealth.

Damascus also complains that the U.S.’s thefts of Syrian oil, natural gas and other resources have led to energy shortages and have further deteriorated the economy and people’s livelihoods.

According to data released by Syria’s Ministry of Oil and Mineral Resources, in the first half of 2022, U.S. forces stole more than 80 percent of Syria’s oil resources every day while the country is suffering from its deteriorating economy.

The U.S. continues to make things worse in the conflict-torn and poverty-stricken Syria due to its blatant plundering of Syrian mineral resources, especially oil. As the US’ stealing has led to losses to the Syrian government of up to $107.1 billion, experts said this behavior exposes the U.S.’ gangster nature.

The U.S. practices in Syria including its unlawful trafficking of Syrian oil have caused direct and indirect losses of about $107.1 billion to Syria’s oil and gas sectors since 2011 to June in 2022, read letters that Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates handed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the President of the Security Council on August 29, Syria Times reported.

According to the letters, the U.S.’ exploiting, destroying, wasting, and exhausting of Syrian natural resources are depriving the Syrian people of their resources “at a time when Syria is already suffering from an acute shortage of energy materials”, Syria Times reported.

Data released by Syria’s Ministry of Oil and Mineral Resources showed that in the first half of 2022, U.S. forces allegedly stole more than 80 percent of Syria’s oil resources every day as the country’s average daily oil production can reach 80,000 barrels and 66,000 barrels were taken by the US and US-backed opposition armed groups.

Such barefaced robbery in Syria is not much different from colonial plunder, which is quite rare to see as the U.S.’ attaining oil from other oil-producing countries is at least legal on the surface.

This is because Syria is still far from completely independent with violated sovereignty and the Syrian government’s limited capacity.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian has recently said that it is appalling to see the sheer scale of U.S. plundering in Syria which faces a grave humanitarian crisis.

Now it has been reported that Syrian government troops have confronted a U.S. military convoy in northeastern province of Hasakah as the occupation forces were attempting to pass through a community in the energy-rich region.

Amid an increasing public anger over the presence of American occupation forces, Syrian army troops stationed at a checkpoint at the entrance to the village of Tell Dahab, which lies south of the city of Qamishli, blocked and expelled the convoy of several armored vehicles, according to SANA news agency.

The convoy was forced to turn around and return in the direction it had come from.

The development came days after U.S. occupation forces in northeastern Syria sent 95 tankers of stolen Syrian oil to Iraq in two separate convoys.

Syrian government and people should take serious action against the U.S. troops who are looting their wealth if they want prosperity and peace to return to their country otherwise the Yankees under different pretext will continue their presence in oil-rich areas of Syria and will continue looting their wealth, and international bodies will also support the Americans by remaining silent.

So the Islamic Republic of Iran has always been right to stand against excessive-demand and arrogance of the U.S. and Tehran is right to distrust the Americans and to stay away from this country which is rightly deserved to be named Great Satan because one cannot see any goodness from the Satan as Satan always seeks vicious and evil things especially against the honest, sincere and independent people and nations.