Yemen rebels and Iraq rebels are now battling with Iran in the Mideast.
East-West Pipeline Hit by Iraq
Grok Translation
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s strongest condemnation of the targeting of the East-West Pipeline in the (Riyadh and Medina) regions by several drones originating from Iraq.
The attack resulted in human casualties and some damage that is currently being addressed.
The Kingdom clarifies that, based on a request from His Excellency the Prime Minister of Iraq to give the sisterly Iraqi government the opportunity to take the necessary measures to prevent attacks originating from Iraqi territory against the Kingdom and neighboring countries, the Kingdom has chosen not to respond at this stage and to support the efforts of the Iraqi government.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia affirms that it reserves its right to take all measures necessary to protect its sovereignty, security, facilities, citizens, and residents.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
11 September 2026 / 29 Rabi’ al-Awwal 1448 AH
Saudi Arabia Shuts Down Pipeline That Was a Crucial Hormuz Bypass
The Wall Street Journal reports Saudi Arabia Shuts Down Pipeline That Was a Crucial Hormuz Bypass
Saudi Arabia shut down a crucial pipeline that allowed the kingdom to continue exporting crude oil after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, saying it had been attacked multiple times as fighting across the Middle East flared.
The East-West pipeline can carry up to 7 million barrels of crude from Saudi Arabia’s oil-producing heartland on the Persian Gulf to the port of Yanbu on the Red Sea. From there, the Saudis had been able to ship oil to customers across the world, alleviating the squeeze on global oil supplies and keep crude prices in check.
A senior Saudi official familiar with the matter said the attacks originated from Iraq on Thursday, where Iran-backed militias have repeatedly targeted the kingdom’s infrastructure. The kingdom’s Energy Ministry said the attacks caused injuries and led the kingdom to shut down the pipeline, but didn’t specify who targeted it.
NASA satellites that track wildfires detected possible blazes overnight into Friday along the East-West pipeline south of Medina. The locations over the past month haven’t shown high heat readings there.
The Houthi advances and any significant damage to the East-West pipeline could boost oil prices toward $120 a barrel, though the fallout will depend on the extent of damage, said Hamad Hussain, an economist at Capital Economics.
“For as long as the conflict drags on, the risks to energy supplies and prices will persist,” Hussain said.
The pipeline strike tightens the squeeze Saudi Arabia faces on both of its main export corridors. The Iran conflict has constrained shipments through Hormuz, while the Houthis have intensified attacks on energy infrastructure and Saudi Red Sea shipping.
It isn’t the first time the East-West pipeline has been pulled into the conflict that began when the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in February.
Attacks earlier this year damaged a pumping station and reduced the line’s capacity by about 700,000 barrels a day. The country restored the pipeline to its full capacity within days. Thursday’s attacks targeted several pumping stations, the Saudi official said.
Robin Mills, chief executive of Dubai-based consulting firm Qamar Energy, said that he expects Saudi Arabia to repair any damage relatively quickly but that there is the risk of repeat attacks.
“So while this doesn’t end the East-West bypass, it does put it under additional strain, combined with the threat to shipping in the Red Sea,” Mills said.
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Also the east-west Saudi pipeline rumored hit, no mainstream reports yet.
It took 12 hours of so before mainstream media confirmed the East-West Saudi pipeline hit.
WTI oil fell on the confirmation from over $104 back to $100. But it is still up $8 from two days ago.
The pipeline is clearly vulnerable.
The message from Iran to the US is easy to see “If you stop our oil, we will stop all the oil bypasses.”
“Saudi Arabia has formally CONFIRMED that the strikes on the East West Pipeline originated from IRAQ, not Yemen.”
LMAO! They are only saying that in order to be able to say this:
“We have chosen not to respond at this stage to attacks launched from Iraqi territory, following a request from Iraq’s prime minister to allow his government to take measures to prevent further attacks against the Kingdom and neighboring countries.”
Just like they did after the other big attack on July 27th on their oil installations. AnsarAllah claimed it, the (weaker) Iraqi Shias denied being responsible and yet the Saudi insisted it was the Iraqis and sent a few missiles their way.
At this point the Saudis are beginning to understand what a huge mistake they made by attacking AnsarAllah and especially by hitting heavily their civilian targets (just like the Anglo-Zionists against Iran)…
I have been saying for years that the NATO – Russia war in Ukraine proved that against a peer adversary NATO is a paper tiger and NATO without the US is a wet paper tiger and people laughed at me.
I wrote here in January 2025 at the start of the Russia – US negotiations where everybody was sure that the NATO – Russia war was going to end with some sort of agreement (with most being sure that it would be an “ugly agreement” which would leave everybody unhappy) that whatever negotiations were going on between Russia and the US were not really about Ukraine if not just as a part of the bigger picture and the war would NOT end through negotiations but with the defeat and capitulation of Clown World’s proxy and by extension of Clown World itself and people laughed at me.
I wrote here literally on day 1 that Operation Epstein Fury (where the US went to war openly and directly without the “protection” and the “excuses” provided by proxies) was going to be the USA’s FAFO moment and people laughed at me.
How many are still laughing..?
CNNs article https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/10/middleeast/houthis-capture-mocha-red-sea-strait-intl had one sentence posted twice: “It could also prevent Saudi Arabia from shipping diesel to Europe at a critical moment for the fuel market.”
The AI (Gemini) reply to why timing is critical follows:
“Europe is starved for winter fuel, and Saudi Arabia has the refining capacity to provide it. However, with regional warfare physically closing in on Saudi pipelines and Red Sea shipping lanes, the window for the Kingdom to safely transport this diesel to European buyers is rapidly shutting.”
It is truly amazing how the crap between Israel & Palestine has erupted into a conflagration of the whole Middle East. Israel coercing Trump into bombing Iran fueled the rest of the expanding wars. What a friggin’ disaster. Trump should have cut his losses on March 1 by pulling all US military out of the Middle East. He’s trapped now and his ego won’t allow him to admit he made a colossal mistake.
CNN Arabic states only one pumping station is confirmed damaged badly, the one at Al Mesba’ah:
https://arabic.cnn.com/middle-east/article/2026/09/11/saudi-arabian-oil-pipeline-system-hit-by-projectiles-triggering-fires
(The other fires flagged by satellites colocalise with known flare pits running in emergency mode. A smaller fire was confirmed at another pumping station.)
This report states that pumping stations can be repaired fast, unlike the “trunk line”:
Seizeing Bab al-Mandeb seems more consequential for the Saudis than the attack on the pipeline
Pumping stations can be destroyed faster than they can be repaired. The hooties have all kinds of fun remote control toys .
If the Saudis want to sell more oil, they will have to stomp down the Houthis and Iran allies. With their wealth they can hire good mercenaries I would expect. Overall, all the new fighting should be drawing the islamic world back to it’s most natural state of endless war between it’s own tribes.
Saudi Arabia already hired tens of thousands of mercenaries to fight against the Houthis in Yemen.
You are looking at the outcome of that strategy.
The real war starts now.
Saudi Aramco was making more than money than it did before the war started. With the loss of 5 million barrels of oil a day, the moderating force in the gulf – Saudi piggy bank – is getting hit.
Do not be shocked if Egypt gets involved in Yemen with the largest Army in Africa, billions in lost Suez Canal revenue and 1.5 billion in US military aid per year hanging in the balance.
It is shocking that the market and dismissed pundits knew about the pipeline 24hours before the mainstream media even started to cover it. I heard reports last night about heat signatures in area of pipeline. It was just too big to cover up.
Rules in the Iran Conflict –
Don’t mess with downed US pilots.
Don’t touch the US navy boats
Don’t touch the Saudi piggy bank.
Iran is running out of fuel, and any fuel is tainted and ruining vehicles- you lose fuel and you lose civilization.
Either Kharg Island is disappearing or Bandar Abbas. It is about to get hot and real.
I doubt Egypt will touch that mess with a 10 foot pole. Any troops that try to amass in Yemen will have drone and missile fire raining down on them 24/7.
So will their supply lines.
This is what the Yemen Red Sea coast looks like.
Sending Egyptian troops to fight there would be one of the greatest military blunders of our era.
You sound absolutely turgid at the prospect.
Thanks for the geography info on Yemen.
“War is God’s way of teaching us geography,”
Go Houthis Go!
It is entirely in the Saudis interest to claim that the pipeline attack originated from Iraq.
They did something similar in 2017 or so.
I hope Trump doesn’t invade Iraq now
Trump has evolved into the strictly worst of Richard Nixon, George W. Bush, Warren G. Harding, Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson, with a dollop of Charles Ponzi on top. I’m waiting for his inner Nero to fully roar.
waiting for the Jojo post by saying that this is not a problem and somehow solar power or fusion power or aliens or some shit will make this all better.
On the reality axis however, this is not surprising except maybe for why it took so long. drumpf of course will be unable to admit that things are going from bad to worse and that the forward-looking trajectory is looking potentially catastrophic. My expectation is that he will continue to double down and assert that we just need to get through the election and just elect Republicans bc the Iranian regime is destined to collapse by Nov 4 after the election. Meanwhile we’ll continue down this path of mutual destruction because we are ruled by testosterone (hogsbreath) and gut feeling/sundowners (drumpf himself). Chairman Caine will try to corral their worst instincts but he is a voice of reason in a sea of insanity. On the other side, the Iranians will continue to act schizophrenically as the various factions continue to vie for power. In short, continued quagmire that continues to bleed both sides, with no winner but continued suffering by all.
The entire Middle East is a powder keg now thanks to Biden and especially Trump of late. The arrogant leadership we have let Israel go apesh!t on the Palestinians, Trump with colossal stupidity and arrogance let Netanyahu convince him of doing a sneak attack/decapitation “short” war on Iran, and now the 500,000,000 people living in the Middle East are mad as hornets at the Israelis and anyone supporting the Israelis in any way.
I would not be surprised to see any if not all of these: Iraq take Kuwait, Yemen be reunited, House of Saud fall, Jordan prince friendly to Iran take over Jordan, Bahrain leadership fall, basically a whole bunch of the British created middle eastern monarchies fall and this does not bode well long term for Israel’s future although they may gain short term with all of the instability. It’s an open secret the Mecca(Makkah) arrangement is primarily a tool to keep Israel in check to halt their “genocidal “greater Israel” project.
I highly doubt the Paki’s and Turks will actually help the House of Saud against the Houthis unless their own interests are impacted directly because nobody wins if a Sunni vs Shiite regional war kicks off. I still can’t believe the dumb fvck Saudi’s attacked the Houthis especially after watching with a front row seat what Iran did to the US and Israel.
Yes, this is all Biden’s fault. 🤦
There is enough blame for every US administration going back all the way to Truman in regards to the current state of the Middle East
Until reading your post, I was going to suggest that maybe it is time to throw the House of Saud overboard. It seems to me that it is getting to be a bit anachronistic. The family has had a pretty good run. I imagine that most members of it will be able to sneak away with at least some cash.
As I understand it, Shia Moslems are more civilized that Sunni Moslems as a general rule. They treat their women better, and in fact have a better arrangement of power between the sexes than we in the West have. They don’t treat their women badly, but they don’t let them take over. (I am open to correction here if someone thinks they do treat their women badly.)
It is interesting to see people who claim to be Semitic (as I take it the Yemenis and Iraqis do) fighting in support of people who claim to be Aryan (the Persians). Usually it’s the Aryans who have to go out and get killed, on behalf of the Semites. In the Ukraine, dead Russians and dead Ukrainians are presumably both good news to Zelensky, since he is Jewish – and not a nice sort of Jew at all.
I don’t suppose America will really throw Israel overboard too, but maybe, Trump being a smart man, he will arrange a compromise whereby the Israelis stop stealing land. I realize that Palestinians are probably just as murderous as Israelis, so I don’t imagine that Gaza will be given back. Maybe Trump’s project of turning it into a resort area and giving the Gaza natives jobs in tourism and hospitality is the best way out.
So why did wti drop on that news? I would have expected it to rise.
The game is rigged. All of it.
the Iranian govt is as arrogant and desperate and lawless as the Trump regime.
this is war without frontiers.
Oh really? Have you studied the Iranian government or is your entire opinion formed by Israeli propaganda? Also, who attacked who?
The Houthis are steel tigers, unlike the paper tigers who only attack from 500 km away.
Knocking out the Saudi East-West pipeline again was fully expected. The only surprise was that it took so long to do it.
Of course, the EW pipeline, even if fully rebuilt, is much less effective now anyway with the Bab Al-Mandeb strait closed by the Houthis.
U.S. boots in Saudi now? Saudi deal with Iran/China? I don’t pretend any expertise, but this just seems to shake some things loose.
The Saudis have asked the US to come in and help with the Saudis, but Trump declined. He’s a little busy right now.
Trump is asking for $1 billion before he’ll commit US troops.
Chump change in this shitshow.
Boots on the ground end up below ground.
It’s not just a “reality TV” war. It’s a real thing. That was the equivalent of a battle, compressed in drone time and compact critical infrastructure. It’s a good thing Hegseth is straight out of central casting.
Literally had a makeup room installed at the pentagon.
Taco is working very hard to go down in history as the nation’s worst, all-time president in every area of his control.
winning!