{"id":26512,"date":"2017-10-06T06:21:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T11:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26512"},"modified":"2017-10-06T06:21:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T11:21:23","slug":"iran-iraq-and-turkey-unite-to-block-kurdish-oil-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26512","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Iraq, And Turkey Unite To Block Kurdish Oil Exports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran, Iraq, And Turkey Unite To Block Kurdish Oil Exports<\/a><\/h3>\n\"Oil\"<\/picture>\n
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Iraq, Iran, and Turkey are taking a unified stance against Kurdistan\u2019s oil sector after the region elected to seek independence from Baghdad in a referendum in September, according to a new report by\u00a0Rudaw<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the case of northern Iraq, Iran, Iraq and Turkey will form a tripartite mechanism and will decide on shutting down the oil,\u201d Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after a meeting with leaders from the other two nations on Thursday.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0day<\/a>\u00a0before the vote, the Iraqi central government issued a statement calling on \u201cneighboring countries and countries of the world\u201d\u00a0to stop buying crude<\/a>\u00a0oil directly from Kurdistan and only deal with Baghdad.<\/p>\n

Turkey\u2019s Ceyhan port provides an outlet for the Kurdish Kirkuk oil to meet international markets without interference from Baghdad. Erdogan, Tehran and other members of the international community had censured Erbil for proceeding with the independence referendum as Iraq recovers from a three-year war against the Islamic State (ISIS). The Turkish leader had previously threatened to cut Kirkuk off from Ceyhan, but did not provide details on how such a measure would be carried out.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s oil majors side with Kurdistan in its quest for an independent fossil fuel establishment. Rosneft signed off on a $1 billion gas pipeline deal with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) a week prior to the historic vote, signaling Moscow\u2019s approval of a hypothetically separate Kurdistan. Related:\u00a0The Trillion Dollar Market That Stopped Chasing Profits<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Both Iran and Turkey house sizeable Kurdish populations, so the referendum raises fears that Kurds from other nations may seek similar political solutions.<\/p>\n

Kurdistan produces around\u00a0600,000 bpd<\/a>\u00a0of crude oil, or about 15 percent of Iraq\u2019s total output.\u00a0After the votes were counted, the KRG\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that the \u2018Yes\u2019 to independence option won at the polls, with 92.73 percent of voters opting to grant Erbil its own regime.<\/p>\n

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Iran, Iraq, And Turkey Unite To Block Kurdish Oil Exports Iraq, Iran, and Turkey are taking a unified stance against Kurdistan\u2019s oil sector after the region elected to seek independence from Baghdad in a referendum in September, according to a new report by\u00a0Rudaw. \u201cIn the case of northern Iraq, Iran, Iraq and Turkey will form […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[45,441,442,2788,1135,5332,1908,818,14559],"class_list":["post-26512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-baghdad","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-kurdistan","tag-oil-exports","tag-oilprice-com","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkey","tag-zainab-calcuttawala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26513,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26512\/revisions\/26513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}