Iraq Ships Fuel Oil via Syria to US as New Export Route Bypasses Hormuz

🛢️ HORMUZ BYPASS — Iraq's Syria route is the war's first new oil corridor. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: With Hormuz at 6 daily transits and Bab el-Mandeb burning, Iraq just opened a third-direction exit for its crude — through Syria, into Mediterranean terminals Washington now accepts. Baghdad is hedging: selling to the US through a route Iran can't interdict. Variable: whether Tehran reads Iraq's Syria pivot as defection and targets the corridor.