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.
No destroyed bypass appears in Saturday's fetched copy, so the file stands as printed.

Saturday is not a destroyed bypass.
Print precaution as the ministry's word.
The bypass exists so Hormuz headlines don't become supply shocks. Shutting it as a precaution inverts its purpose temporarily. Saturday keeps the inversion.

A precaution is a position, not an event; Riyadh holds the position. Saturday's pipe stays shut. Reopening needs an announcement.

Inverted purpose stays temporary; Saturday's pipe is still the ministry's precaution. Not a destroyed bypass. Supply shocks were the thing it was built to dodge.

The ministry's word after the Iraq-launched drones remains temporary. Precaution shut East-West so a Hormuz scare would not erase the export book. Baghdad's three gates are Saturday's addendum, not a wrecked line. Reopening still needs Riyadh to say so.
Temporary remains Friday's adjective. Baghdad's three gates are Saturday's addendum. Reopening still needs Riyadh to say so.

Temporary remains Friday's adjective. Baghdad's three gates are Saturday's addendum. Reopening still needs Riyadh to say so.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem