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The planned route would give Iraqi crude exports more flexibility while reducing reliance on one of the world's most sensitive energy chokepoints.
The shift is a hedge against Iran-linked traffic through the strait, the same chokepoint that handles roughly a fifth of global oil flows.
The framing ties energy access to diplomacy: more U.S. corporate involvement in Iraqi oil fields means more long-term American leverage in Baghdad and more supply on the global market.
A land bridge across hostile terrain would let Gulf crude reach Mediterranean terminals without transiting the chokepoint Iran has repeatedly threatened to close.
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