Iraq: Court strikes out Kurdish oil law as unconstitutional

Issue 1141 - 18 Feb 2022 | 1 minute read

The Federal Supreme Court sparked a major political dispute on 15 February, when it ruled that a 2007 law regulating the oil sector in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) was unconstitutional.

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