Syria says gas pipeline fire between Al-Shola and Deir al-Zour caused by sabotage, while efforts underway to extinguish fire and fire stopped gas supply from Jbeissa plant to power stations
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Syria says gas pipeline fire between Al-Shola and Deir al-Zour caused by sabotage, while efforts underway to extinguish fire and fire stopped gas supply from Jbeissa plant to power stations US President Trump posts "Axios just released a story that “Trump” offered Sanctions Relief and Frozen Funds to Iran. This is untrue. I offered them NOTHING! Axios’ story, like most others, is a HOAX" Iran Foreign Ministry Iranian delegation met with Qatar mediator on Monday afternoon at the UNGA, adds media speculation on Qatar talks is false and that there were no talks held on detailed issues with Qatari mediator The supply at stake is domestic: the line feeds associated gas from the Jbeissa processing plant to power stations, so the transmission channel runs through Syrian electricity generation and local fuel shortages, not through internationally traded gas or crude balances. Syrian output has long been too small and too isolated to clear global benchmarks, and episodes of this kind have historically left global crude and gas pricing untouched even where they carried local humanitarian weight. The distinction worth drawing is between pipeline sabotage, which has typically been repaired on a timescale of days to weeks, and strikes on processing or export infrastructure, which carry longer downtime; this is the former. Follow-ons worth tracking are attribution claims, any widening to other facilities in the Deir al-Zour corridor, and whether repair timelines stretch, which would signal security deterioration rather than a one-off.
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