Iraq has sent a high-level delegation to the Northern Kurdistan region in an effort to resume crude oil exports through Turkey. The visit to Erbil follows heightened fears during the recent Iran-Israel conflict that Tehran could carry out its threats to shut the Strait of Hormuz, through which most of Iraq’si oil exports pass. Baghdad Today news website and other Iraqi media outlets said the delegation would hold a series of meetings with Kurdish officials about reopening the 970km Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline that had shipped nearly 400,000 barrels per day of Kurdistan’s oil.