US Plans to Partition Iraq and Syria into “Pipeline States”
The plan to partition Iraq came intoexistence before the US invaded the country. Its implementation started
with “no-fly zones” established in 1991 to the north of Tikrit and south
of Nasiriyah. The Iraqi Air Force aircraft were warned to keep out of
the zone or be shot down in case of violation. The talks held in Ankara
and Washington on creation of “no-fly zones” in Syria pursue the same
goal – they are part of the plan to divide the country.
The territory of Syria is a natural
transit route for transporting oil and gas from Iraq (northern
Kurdistan), the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf. The course of
events in the region will directly influence the geography of
hydrocarbons flow.
The Syrian government-sponsored National
Dialogue Conference held in Moscow on August 27 emphasized that Islamic
State militants and the armed formations of Syrian “secular” opposition
had already seized sections of the country’s transit routes. As far back
as the early 1970s, Hafez Assad, the father of the current president,
nationalized the pipelines going through the Syrian territory.But Saudi
Arabia is still the main owner of Middle East oil and gas transit routes
(except the sections going through Syria).
