Analysts, however, are not so gloomy about the Kurds' options if they are imposed with economic sanctions.
"The U.S. and Israel would make sure that Kurds get their needs by air," Koni said, noting Washington has several military bases in northern Iraq.
KRG President Masoud Barzani must have estimated that his region would be facing such an embargo, added Koni.
"The Kurds may find a way of selling their oil via Jordan, Syria and Israel," Yavuz remarked. Israel is the only country which openly supports the emergence of a Kurdish state.
No sanctions would be able to push the Kurds to back down, Bagci noted.
The world's major powers like the United States and Russia only said they support the territorial integrity of Iraq, without raising voice against the Kurds.
Washington called for the referendum to be postponed on the grounds that it would damage the fight against the IS by creating a new conflict in the region.
With the U.S. help, the Iraqi Kurds have expanded the territory under their control over the years after they pushed away IS militants from some towns in northern Iraq. People living in those towns, including Kirkuk, voted in the referendum as well.
Turkish and Iranian presidents have spoken over the phone respectively with their Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin about latest developments in the region, and Putin is scheduled to arrive in Ankara on Thursday for talks with Erdogan.
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