Al Jazeera reports an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said Iraq will sign contracts to purchase air-defense systems in the near term.

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Iraq's state marketer SOMO issued a second tender this week for September-loading Basra crude to be delivered outside the Strait of Hormuz, trade sources and a tender document show. The tender specifies ship-to-ship loading near Oman's coast in the Arabian Sea and has an Aug. 28 deadline. In a tender published on Monday SOMO offered cargoes loaded from its Basra oil terminal, which require buyers to charter tankers capable of transiting the Strait; that first tender closed on Wednesday. Iran's IRNA reported on Saturday that Tehran has approved some Iraqi tankers to transit the Strait of Hormuz after repeated requests from the Iraqi government.