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Good color from @0xCarlos_ This pipeline was built in the 1980s as a hedge against the Iran-Iraq War. It was designed for exactly this scenario — but it hasn't operated anywhere near 7M bpd in decades. The pumping stations along 1,200 km need to work flawlessly at 7x throughput. These aren't parallel redundant systems — one pump station failure and throughput drops to zero until repaired. Running aging infrastructure at nameplate capacity under emergency conditions is a roll of the dice.