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The Iraqi prime minister’s foreign affairs adviser, Farhad Alaaeldin, told a local TV channel on Wednesday that the waiver guaranteed by the United States on importing Iranian gas has not been revoked and is still in effect, Reuters has reported.
The exemption on imported power, though, has been cancelled, said Alaaeldin. He pointed out that most Iraqi power plants run on gas from Iran, with 43 per cent of Iraq’s electricity generated by the gas imported from its neighbour to the east.
Still, the US was encouraging Iraq to secure gas from other sources, added the adviser. “The American administration says… diversify your import sources. Go to other countries.”
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