{"id":1406247,"date":"2022-03-29T05:30:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T09:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406247"},"modified":"2022-03-29T05:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T09:30:09","slug":"iraqs-kurds-face-iranian-resistance-to-energy-development-pm-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iraqs-kurds-face-iranian-resistance-to-energy-development-pm-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq\u2019s Kurds face Iranian resistance to energy development, PM says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firaqs-kurds-face-iranian-resistance-to-energy-development-pm-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406247&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>FILE PHOTO: Masrour Barzani, incoming Prime Minister of Kurdistan region speaks during an interview with Reuters in Erbil, Iraq July 9, 2019. 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REUTERS\/Azad Lashkari\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 29, 2022<\/p>\n<p>DUBAI (Reuters) \u2013     The development of oil and gas in Iraq\u2019s northern Kurdish region may not be in the interest of major regional energy producer Iran, Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks on the region\u2019s capital Erbil and the federal government\u2019s legal actions have demonstrated the resistance to development in the energy-rich region.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said early this month it struck Israeli \u201cstrategic centres\u201d in Erbil in retaliation for an Israeli air raid that killed two of its members in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>But most of the 12 missiles fired into the Kurdish capital hit the villa of a Kurdish businessman involved in the autonomous region\u2019s energy sector.<\/p>\n<p>A Kurdish gas export plan could threaten Iran\u2019s place as a major supplier to Iraq and Turkey when its economy is reeling from international sanctions, sources told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was shortly after Iraq\u2019s federal court deemed an  oil and gas law regulating the oil industry in Iraqi Kurdistan unconstitutional and demanded that Kurdish authorities hand over their crude supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an industry event in the United Arab Emirates, Barzani said the court ruling was political and that Kurdistan is negotiating with the Iraqi federal government to preserve what he called their constitutional rights. <\/p>\n<p>Kurdistan has given assurances to its trading partners and international organisations that operate in the autonomous region that it remains committed to honouring their contracts, Barzani added.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Maha El Dahan, Riham Alkousaa and Yousef Saba; Writing by Michael Georgy and Nadine Awadalla; Editing by Alex Richardson and Barbara Lewis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: Masrour Barzani, incoming Prime Minister of Kurdistan region speaks during an interview with Reuters in Erbil, Iraq July 9, 2019. 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