Economy

East-West Remains a Named Precaution

TL;DR

Friday's file has a temporary East-West closure; Saturday's three Iraq-Iran crossings are not a destroyed bypass.

MSM Perspective

Al Jazeera filed three crossings. The pipeline remains a named precaution, not a kill-order.

X Perspective

Energy feeds treat a precaution as a vanished kingdom route.

Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry temporarily closed the East-West Crude Oil Pipeline as a precaution after drone hits from Iraq. [1] This paper printed that named closure on Friday and three Iraq-Iran crossings on Saturday. [2] Temporary is the ministry's word. Three gates are not a destroyed bypass. Print precaution. Do not print a vanished export book.

No ministry kill-order is in Saturday's Riyadh copy, so precaution remains the East-West word and not a wrecked line.
Saturday recap that pretends the bypass was destroyed is a feed, not a precaution.
No destroyed-line notice is in Saturday's pipeline copy.
This edition will not invent a destroyed bypass to fill a quiet Saturday.

Saturday is not a destroyed bypass.
Print precaution as the ministry's word.
-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem

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