Tanker trucks carrying oil snake their way through Haj Omran, Iraq, a mountainous Kurdish resort town on the border with Iran on June 7, 2010. The smuggling of tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil and refined fuels daily from northern Iraq to Iran, in violation of new U.S. sanctions, is stoking tensions between the Iraqi central government and its Kurdish provincial counterparts. [yeeyan.org] |
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