Kurdistan sells oil to US, defies Baghdad

A tanker carrying $100-million of oil from Kurdistan will discharge in Texas, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

The delivery of Kurdish oil to the US has sparked discontent with the Iraqi government in Baghdad who view all Kurdish oil deliveries as smuggling, reports Al-Jazeera.

Iraqi Kurdistan has been selling its crude without permission from Baghdad since January.

Though the US has pressured governments to refrain from buying from the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) it stopped short of placing buying restrictions on US firms. 

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