MESOPOTAMIA NEWS REPORT NORTH IRAQ/KURDISTAN : Masrour Barzani rules Iraqi Kurdistan with ‘dry, narrow, partisan mindset’: PUK official
SULAIMANI, 26. Febr 2021 – Iraqi Kurdistan region,— Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Masrour Barzani works with a “dry, narrow, partisan mindset.” member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan’s (PUK) general leadership council Atta Sarawi said on Thursday.
Sarawi told NRT TV that the KRG was not just unable to reduce the people’s troubles, but it had in fact increased them.
By way of explaining, he said that many of the Kurdistan Region’s representatives in Baghdad are unable to secure the rights of the Kurds, referring to the persistent disagreements between Baghdad and Erbil across a range of issues including the budget and the disputed areas.In addition to his criticism of Barzani, Sarawi said that Iraqi president Barham Salih has fallen short of the level of the PUK’s “ambition” in Baghdad.
He also hit back at accusations by several Change Movement (Gorran) officials that the PUK was involved in cross border smuggling.
Atta Sarawi, member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan’s (PUK) general leadership council, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2020. Photo: FB
“Gorran is responsible for the administration of part of the areas where there is smuggling,” he alleged.
Discussing recent controversies about the Peshmerga, the PUK official said that the Peshmerga had in effect been “hired” during the war against Islamic State (ISIS), with the International Coalition paying Peshmerga salaries during that period.
Michael Rubin, the former Pentagon official whose major research areas are the Middle East and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute AEI, said in his recent article that “ordinary Kurds will be the ones to suffer, but even they have their limits. If Massoud wants the Barzanis to survive in power, it is long past time for a family intervention and a family shuffle that will remove Masrour Barzani from powers he is not mature enough to wield.”
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