Kurdish peshmerga forces took control of production facilities at two northern Iraqi oilfields on Friday, replacing Arab workers with Kurdish personnel.
The national oil ministry in Baghdad condemned the takeover at the Kirkuk and Bai Hassan fields and called on the Kurds to withdraw immediately to avoid "dire consequences".
The move came a month after Kurdish forces took control of the nearby city of Kirkuk, following the withdrawal of Iraqi armed forces in the face of a lightning assault by Islamic State militants, who have seized large parts of north and west Iraq.
Baghdad's threats are laughable. It can't stop a rag-tag bunch of thugs waiving a black flag--how is it going to retake oil fields from the better trained Kurds. I wonder if they will call the new country Kurdistan?
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