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New20 Aug, 22:35 BAGHDAD

KSS-linked iNEWS bursts on Oil Ministry's missing gasoline reserve

WHAT HAPPENED

iNEWS (KSS — affiliated media) published three urgent-tagged graphics in under four minutes this evening quoting Ali al-Zarkani, head of the Oil and Gas Committee in the Baghdad Council, first that the Ministry of Oil has no strategic gasoline reserve and then that its plans for confronting fuel crises are not at the required level. Two of the three posts are near-identical restatements of the reserve line. The evidence identifies al-Zarkani only by his council position; it does not state a factional affiliation for him, and no other tracked channel carried the remarks in this window.

WHO CARRIED IT · EVERY MESSAGE, LINKED
  1. iNEWSKSS — affiliated media20 Aug, 22:31

    Ali al-Zarkani, head of the Oil and Gas Committee in the Baghdad Council, to iNEWS: the Ministry of Oil has no strategic gasoline reserve.

    رئيس لجنة النفط والغاز في مجلس بغداد علي الزركاني لـ"آي نيوز": وزارة النفط ليس لها خزين استراتيجي من البنزين

  2. iNEWSKSS — affiliated media20 Aug, 22:32

    The Ministry of Oil does not have a strategic gasoline reserve.

    وزارة النفط ليس لديها خزين استراتيجي من البنزين

  3. iNEWSKSS — affiliated media20 Aug, 22:35

    The Ministry of Oil's plans to confront any fuel crises are not at the required level.

    خطط وزارة النفط لمواجهة أي أزمات في الوقود ليست بالمستوى المطلوب

In posting order. Translated by the desk, published as evidence — not endorsement.
WHY IT MATTERS

A KSS-aligned outlet is building a public-services failure case against a named federal ministry, which is the material from which pre-election accountability campaigns are assembled.

THE MESSAGE IN FULL · THE DESK’S OWN COPY
View the original message (Arabic)🔴 #عاجل_اي_نيوز الزركاني لـ"آي نيوز": خطط وزارة النفط لمواجهة أي أزمات في الوقود ليست بالمستوى المطلوب
Kept as posted — a channel can delete a message; this copy stays.