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Article: "Baghdad comments on Washington's threats not to resume Kurdistan oil exports" Quote: "The Iraqi government denied,
on Saturday, all media reports that claimed that the United States threatened to impose sanctions on Iraq if oil exports from the Kurdistan Region were not resumed. ..
Reuters quoted eight sources in Baghdad, Washington and Erbil, who have direct knowledge of the issue, as saying that “increasing pressure from the new US administration
was a major driver behind the Iraqi oil minister’s announcement last Monday that exports from the region would resume next week"