{"id":56750,"date":"2021-03-20T07:35:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T11:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=56750"},"modified":"2021-03-20T07:35:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T11:35:50","slug":"just-like-pirates-biden-administration-continues-to-outright-steal-syrias-oil-with-military-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=56750","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Just like pirates\u2019 &#8212; Biden Administration Continues to Outright Steal Syria&#8217;s Oil with Military Occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>\u2018Just like pirates\u2019: Syrian minister says US controls most crude reserves in northeast, loots oil to strangle country\u2019s economy<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_56751\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56751\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/605551e72030277301751cb4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/605551e72030277301751cb4.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/605551e72030277301751cb4-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-56751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: American soldiers stand near military trucks, at al-Omar oil field in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, March 23, 2019. \u00a9  Reuters \/ Rodi Said<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>Syria\u2019s petroleum minister has condemned US forces for acting \u201clike pirates\u201d as Washington continues to plunder most of the oil wealth from the country\u2019s resource-rich northeast, where the Pentagon backs Kurdish militia groups.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAmericans and their allies are targeting the Syrian oil wealth and its tankers just like pirates,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Bassam Tomeh\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2021\/03\/19\/647631\/US-loots-Syria-oil-resources-like-pirates-controls-90--of-crude-reserves-Syrian-oil-minister\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a>\u00a0state TV this week, adding that the move is designed to cripple Syria\u2019s economy, which depends on oil revenues.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cWhat has happened all through [the] Syria war has not happened in any country, in terms of preventing us from tapping our wealth resources and at the same time stopping basic commodities from reaching our country.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tomeh said that the total damage inflicted on the Syrian petroleum sector due to the US occupation exceeds $92 billion, noting that Washington currently controls 90% of the crude oil resources in the northeast region.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/518665-syria-minister-us-oil-pirates\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/518665-syria-minister-us-oil-pirates\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Just like pirates\u2019: Syrian minister says US controls most crude reserves in northeast, loots oil to strangle country\u2019s economy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}