Imad Obaid…and his role in preserving the Euphrates Dam from being blown up by the organization

Imad Obaid is considered one of the prominent figures in the city of Tabqqa. He was born in 1964 in Deir al-Zour. He moved to Tabqqa when the work of the Euphrates Dam began, where his father worked. He received education in Tabqqa schools and obtained a high school diploma. He studied at the Sharia Institute and also holds an international training diploma TOT.

He has worked at the Euphrates Dam since 1987, where he started in investment maintenance, then became head of the Industrial Security Division, then head of the Mechanical Investment Department, head of the Operations Department at the Euphrates Dam, and now works as head of the Euphrates Dam Operations Coordination Room.

He previously worked as an international peace ambassador and vice president of the Academy of Peace Ambassadors in the Arab world and the world.

He made an effort with his colleagues during the period of ISIS control over the city, to convince its leaders not to blow up the Euphrates Dam because of its disastrous repercussions on Syrian cities.

Speaking to Aso News Network, he said that the organization’s leaders issued orders to completely blow up the Euphrates Dam days before the Euphrates Dam was liberated by the SDF and the international coalition, which would have led to a humanitarian catastrophe in Syria and Iraq.

He added that he was working as head of the dam operations room at the time, and he tried to convince the “prince” in charge of managing the dam not to booby-trap the dam and blow it up in some sensitive locations, but he insisted on implementing the orders of the organization’s leaders, and then he and his colleagues discussed with one of the organization’s princes the danger of blowing up the dam on the lives of thousands of people. Some of them were loyal to the organization, until they retracted the decision to blow up the dam completely, and the organization proceeded to blow up the eight electrical generating sets within the dam, causing the electricity generating sets to go out of service.