{"id":655289,"date":"2025-12-05T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=655289"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:43:11","slug":"how-an-oil-pipeline-battle-shows-the-us-gaining-sway-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-an-oil-pipeline-battle-shows-the-us-gaining-sway-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"How an oil pipeline battle shows the US gaining sway in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian drones swept through the mountain air of northern Iraq&#8217;s Kurdistan region in mid-July, homing in on their targets: oilfields run by Americans. <\/p>\n<p>Fired by an Iranian-backed militia group within Iraq, likely in retaliation for U.S. strikes on Iran&#8217;s nuclear sites weeks earlier, one struck the Sarsang field operated by HKN Energy, a company owned by the son of Texas billionaire Ross Perot. <\/p>\n<p>Another hit a nearby field run by Dallas-based Hunt Oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian drones swept through the mountain air of northern Iraq&#8217;s Kurdistan region in mid-July, homing in on their targets: oilfields run by Americans. Fired by an Iranian-backed militia group within Iraq, likely in retaliation for U.S. strikes on Iran&#8217;s nuclear sites weeks earlier, one struck the Sarsang field operated by HKN Energy, a company owned by the son of Texas billionaire Ross Perot. Another hit a nearby field run by Dallas-based Hunt Oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}