Baghdad pressuring Kurds on oil shows worry Basra wants autonomy

BAGHDAD (Bloomberg) -- Iraq’s central government is denying the Kurds the right to export oil independently because it doesn’t want to set a precedent for the country’s other crude-rich region to seek autonomy, according to Luay Al-Khatteeb, an adviser to the parliament of Iraq for energy policy and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center.

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