Massoud Barzani

Iraqi Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi was in Tehran on Thursday for consultations with the Iranian government (no, Abadi isn’t afraid of Trump.). During his meeting with Iranian vice president Ishaq Jahangiri, his office released a statement replying to Massoud Barzani.
Barzani is the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, an autonomous super-province of Iraq that recently tried to secede. After losing Kirkuk to the Iraqi army last week, Barzani issued a statement that he was suspending the results of the referendum on independence.

A political miscalculation by Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani – staging an independence referendum that prompted fierce retaliation by Baghdad – has set back hopes for a Kurdish state by decades, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Masoud Barzani was…Read more →

Alors que la bataille de Rakka touche à sa fin, qu’avec la perte annoncée de Mayadine l’Organisation de l’État islamique (OEI) n’est plus que l’ombre de ce qu’elle fut, nous avons souhaité obtenir les analyses de Gabriel Galice – spécialiste, entre autres, des conflits – sur les événements qui agitent la région du Levant, et les idées qui gravitent autour du concept de Grand Moyen-Orient.

One week after Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani held his referendum on Kurdish independence from Iraq (with both the referendum and independence being contrary to the Iraqi constitution), the blowback has been fierce, angry and almost universal.

Alors que les habitants des zones contrôlés par les kurdes d’Irak étaient appelés aux urnes ce 25 septembre pour un référendum sur leur indépendance, nous avons souhaité recueillir l’analyse et le point de vue de Bassam Tahhan, professeur de langue arabe, spécialiste du Coran, et géopoliticien d’origine syrienne.

With the September 25th scheduled Kurdish Referendum in Iraq less than a week away, nations worldwide including; the US, UK, France, UN, Iran, and Iraq have expressed their objection and dissent and are calling for its suspension.
All except for Israel, a lone supporter, and longtime friend of the Kurds.
However, this doesn’t seem to have any impact on deterring the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq led by Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani from holding the referendum as planned.

Official fears violence after 25 September independence vote, as disputes grow in areas controlled by Kurd forces outside original KRG borders.

(MEE) — Fears of fresh conflict in northern Iraq are bubbling to the surface weeks before Iraqi Kurds hold a contentious vote on independence, with warnings of war over disputed, ethnically mixed border regions and reports of Shia forces pushing Kurd officials from a town to prevent voting.