Where Iran's oil tankers as fuel crisis escalates?

Most of the regime-held areas have come under a suffocating transport crisis as a result of the reduction of fuel requests for gas stations by more than 50 percent, in addition to an increase in the duration of diesel and gasoline shipments to more than two weeks.

Many observers wondered about the reality of oil supplies from Iran, from which no oil tanker had arrived for more than a month, at a time when sources in the Syrian Ministry of Oil announced about ten days ago the imminent arrival of a new oil tanker from Iran, but the tanker did not arrive. Until today, according to the confirmation of informed media sources in exclusive statements to the Eqtsad business website.

Pro-regime media reported that the transportation crisis in Latakia and Tartus began to cast a great shadow on the movement of people, which caused an increase in the daily suffering of employees, many of whom were forced to take leave from their work, due to their inability to reach it, according to local Athr Press news site.

The Syrian Petroleum Storage and Distribution Company (SADCOB) have reduced stations' demands for diesel fuel and gasoline to the minimum limits in Damascus and its countryside, Aleppo, Hama and Homs due to the lack of supplies, sources said.

 However, the state company did not indicate this time the imminent arrival of any new oil tanker, adding, in a comment on the complaints of the transportation crisis, that the priority for fuel distribution in the current period is for vital facilities, such as hospitals and bakeries.

In a related context, an informed media source close to the regime's media reported that the SADCOB covers the needs of the governorates in the current period from the few stocks in its tanks, in addition to some supplies coming from the northeastern  areas that held by the Kurdish-led forces, stressing that it has been more than a month since No oil tanker arrived from Iran, in addition to that officials in the Ministry of Oil evade answering the question of when the new supplies will arrive.

The source, who asked not to be named in a statement to Eqtsad, revealed that there are talks about requesting assistance from the Sultanate of Oman to provide some quantities of oil urgently, but it may take more than two weeks to reach Syria.

Commenting on what the pro-regime Al-Watan newspaper announced, more than two weeks ago, about Iran's intention to increase the quantities of oil supplied to Syria from 2 million barrels to 3 million per month, the source indicated that this news has not yet been confirmed by any of the official sources, whether Iranian or Syrian, expressing his belief that the news is not true given the sensitive internal conditions that Iran is going through at the present time.