🇵🇰🇮🇶🇺🇸🇮🇷 Pakistan and Iraq closed some border checkpoints with Iran fearing U.S. sanctions

While the land borders of Iraq and Pakistan with Iran still remain open, authorities in Baghdad and Islamabad decided to close down key border checkpoints with Iran through which large numbers of trucks carrying Iranian oil go through to crackdown on Iran's oil trade.

It is likely that Iran continues to export oil to European markets through Iraqi territory with trucks then heading towards Syrian ports after which they reach Europe. Iraqi trucks may be loaded fully or partially with Iranian oil.

The closure of the Iran-Pakistan border led to Iran cutting off Pakistan from its LPG exports causing an LPG shortage in the country. Pakistan is heavily dependent on fuel, not just oil but LNG, LPG, heating oil too, coming from the GCC which Iran can easily cut off placing Islamabad in quite the conundrum.

Recall that following the failure to regime change Iran, U.S. president Donald Trump alongside Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, scrambled for a backup plan and decided on coercing Iran's neighbours to slowly cut off all trade and economic relations hoping to achieve through economic means what bombs and missiles couldn't.

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