U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is piling pressure on Iraq to allow Kurdish oil exports to restart or face sanctions alongside Iran, eight sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Iraq’s oil ministry has announced the resumption of oil exports from northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region

Iraq’s oil ministry repeated that it’s ready to restart exports from the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan via a pipeline to Turkey that’s been shut for almost two years.

Flows of crude oil through a pipeline from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq to Turkey could restart soon after an almost two-year shutdown.

Iraq's oil ministry declared on Saturday that the procedures had been completed to allow the resumption of oil exports from the Kurdish

Iraq is awaiting a response from Turkey “within the next 24 hours” regarding the readiness of the pipeline designated for the Kurdistan Region’s oil exports, an official from Iraq’s oil ministry said on Sunday.

The US Energy Information Administration revealed on Sunday that Iraq’s weekly oil exports to the United States significantly increased.

Iraq is working to iron out technical issues with the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government to restart a crude export pipeline to Turkey after an almost two-year shutdown that cost Iraq around $19 billion in lost revenue,