Relationship in Crisis: Identifying Strategies for Kurdistan and Iraq to Re-establish Cooperation in the Context of Energy Dependency

... Although Iran has formally committed to staying silent, its history of using militant organizations to intervene, such as in the Kormor field , indicates that it may be motivated to indirectly undermine the project due to its interests in the Iraq and Kurdistan gas markets. The Iranian response to any effort to open Kurdistan to Washington, and to find a substitute for its invading exports to Iraq, is maintained by the fact that the lack of an official stance does not imply a lack of future action or planning....