Tag: Iraq: Kurdish referendum

NOVANEWS By: Edu Montesanti In the mid 1960s and 70s, Mossad planned and funded a Kurdish Army to fight Iraqi troops in northern Iraq, and other Israel enemies in the Middle East. | Photo: Reuters. teleSUR speaks to Iraqi Ambassador to Russia Haidar Mansour Hadi about the controversial referendum. On Sept. 25, 92 percent of the total of 8.4 million Iraqi Kurdish population voted "yes" to independence in a referendum on whether to secede from Iraq. RELATED: Iran and Turkey Warn Against Iraqi Kurd Secession That was a symbolic step for the ethnic group composed of by more than 30 million people spread across five countries. They decided to settle in lands of their own in northern Iraq, where Iraqi Kurdistan is made up of three provinces run by an autonomous regional...

NOVANEWS Iraqi Parliament authorized “military measures” against Kurdish region independence referendum … by  Southfront  The referendum is including areas outside the Kurdish autonomous region, a flagrant challenge to the Iraqi constitution [ Editor’s Note: This little gem slipped by the corporate media, but it is, in no way, a little item. The Iraqi Parliament’s language was couched very carefully in the term “to preserve the unity of Iraq”. Everyone who wants to, understands what that means, and that includes the Kurds. If the Kurds continue with their push for independence, with the obvious goal of not wanting to share their oil revenues with the rest of the country, then they will need a protector. The Americans and Israelis have fulfilled that role and would like nothing bett...