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Iran warns: No oil exports from the Middle East until war ends

Gulf officials warn continued attacks on energy facilities could devastate the global economy.

By World Israel News Staff

Iran vowed to continue disrupting the global energy market, warning that not a “single liter” of oil would be exported from the region until the fighting with the United States and Israel ends.

The Islamic Republic “will not allow the export of even a single liter of oil from the region to the hostile side and its partners until further notice,” a spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement Tuesday.

The spokesman, Ali Mohammad Naeini, added that “attempts to reduce and control oil and gas prices will be temporary and ineffective.”

Naeini stressed that “trade in wartime conditions is subject to security considerations.”

Since the outbreak of the war, Iran has attacked oil infrastructure in neighboring Gulf countries and closed the Strait of Hormuz, a major chokepoint for global oil exports. About 25 percent of the world’s oil travels through the maritime passage each year. The blockade of the route, along with attacks on refineries and oil reserves, has sent energy prices soaring.

According to a CNN report, Iran has recently begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz after launching drone attacks on oil tankers passing through the area.

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Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari warned that “the attacks on energy facilities, which have also happened on both sides, are a dangerous precedent.”

Al-Ansari stressed that “what is happening right now is going to have grave consequences for the international economy.”

Last Saturday, Israel struck Iranian oil infrastructure. The attack sparked backlash from American officials, who called on the Jewish state to refrain from doing so again in the future.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has long pushed for a war against Iran, wrote on X that while he supports Israel’s military actions, attacks on Iran’s oil facilities must stop.

Graham said those oil reserves could help bring prosperity to a future free Iran after the Islamic regime is toppled.