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Author: Steve203 ⎊🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: a wider war, or Baghdad Bob?
Date: 04/09/26 9:54 AM
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UAE Mirage-2000-9 Jets Accused of Striking Iran’s Lavan Island Refinery, Threatening Collapse of Strait of Hormuz Ceasefire

Iranian military-linked sources claimed the refinery strike was conducted by Mirage-2000-9 fighter aircraft operated by the United Arab Emirates, immediately expanding the crisis beyond the original U.S.-Iran confrontation.

https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/uae-mirage-2000...

The UAE has a pipeline to the Gulf of Oman, bypassing the Strait, tho the pipe's capacity is only adequate for about half of the Emirates daily exports. Maybe the Emerates figures they make more profit, on half the volume, by keeping the Strait closed, and Iraq, and Kuwait off line? Iraq has a pipe through Turkey, but, it goes through Kurdish territory. Apparently, the Baghdad government, and the Kurds, have been in a snit, so the pipe is idle.

Steve
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Author: weatherman   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: a wider war, or Baghdad Bob?
Date: 04/09/26 10:46 AM
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economist has estimated that saudi and uae pipelines have almost made up for net income profits. (but still in net loss per war damage)

bahrain in deepest trouble. as the poorest gulf state, they couldnt even afford a pre-war trump bribe of value.
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Author: Steve203 ⎊🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: a wider war, or Baghdad Bob?
Date: 04/09/26 11:09 AM
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economist has estimated that saudi and uae pipelines have almost made up for net income profits. (but still in net loss per war damage)

Ever see "Escape From Zahrain"? Some of those pipelines travel through miles and miles of nothing. Not inconceivable that the Houthis could take a drive through those miles of nothing, and blow up a couple pumping stations in that Saudi pipe.

Steve

The shot that matters is at the 3:45 mark.

Escape from Zahrain (1962) by Jack Openshaw for 90to5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGvKEANB0-E
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Author: Steve203 ⎊🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: a wider war, or Baghdad Bob?
Date: 04/09/26 5:43 PM
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Some of those pipelines travel through miles and miles of nothing. Not inconceivable that the Houthis could take a drive through those miles of nothing, and blow up a couple pumping stations in that Saudi pipe.

****ripped from the headlines****

Apr 9 2026 4:44 PM

Iran attacks on crucial Saudi pipeline and production facilities slash kingdom’s oil output

Saudi Arabia’s critical pipeline to the Red Sea suffered a recent attack from Iran, cutting throughput by 700,000 barrels per day.

The attack hit a pumping station on the East-West pipeline, according to a state-news agency report. This pipeline brings crude oil from processing facilities near the Persian Gulf to an export terminal on the Red Sea called Yanbu.

Attacks on Saudi’s Manifa and Khurais production facilities have slashed the kingdom’s output by 600,000 bpd, according to the Saudi Press Agency report. Several refineries have also been attacked.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/09/iran-war-oil-saudi...

Steve
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