{"id":27304,"date":"2025-02-22T08:07:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T04:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/us-piles-pressure-on-iraq-to-resume-kurdish-oil-exports\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T08:07:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T04:37:40","slug":"us-piles-pressure-on-iraq-to-resume-kurdish-oil-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/us-piles-pressure-on-iraq-to-resume-kurdish-oil-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"US piles pressure on Iraq to resume Kurdish oil exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5390887.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>US President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration is piling pressure on Iraq to allow Kurdish oil exports to restart or face sanctions alongside Iran, eight sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq&#8217;s oil minister made a surprise announcement on Monday that exports from Kurdistan would resume next week. That would mark the end of a nearly two-year dispute that has cut flows of more than 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of Kurdish oil via Turkey to global markets.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters spoke to eight sources in Baghdad, Washington, and Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, who said that mounting pressure from the new US administration was a key driver behind Monday&#8217;s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>All of the sources declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>MP\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/228688\/US-piles-pressure-on-Iraq-to-resume-Kurdish-oil-exports\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration is piling pressure on Iraq to allow Kurdish oil exports to restart or face sanctions alongside Iran, eight sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Iraq&#8217;s oil minister made a surprise announcement on Monday that exports from Kurdistan would resume next week. That would mark the end of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}