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PhD Student @IR_UniLeipzig @UniLeipzig | @FESonline Scholar | ✍️@TheKRDTimes
Jan 26, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
The KRG leadership, more particularly the KDP leaders, thought that int'l oil cos like Exxon would always protect the KRG oil industry from #Iraq's pressures; however, KRG's oil reserves were not promising & KRG provided #Turkey & #Russia w/ best deals. That changed the dynamics. When Iraq was weak & the KRG was somehow strong politically, the KRG bypassed constitution. Now that KRG is weak & Baghdad is strong, Baghdad is retaliating. The KRG tried separation then & Baghdad showing ambitions for centralisation. Both are doomed to failure.
Aug 3, 2020 7 tweets 3 min read
THREAD:
The only #Peshmerga commander Qadir Khorani [a PUK] who didn't abandon Yazidis & fought against ISIS uncovered for the first time that he has been "investigated several times for not carrying the command to leave #Sinjar."
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Will translate bits 👇 "I informed high rank officials that [Peshmerga] forces have started retreating. They said they would respond me in 10 mins. They called me in 30 mins. They ordered to withdraw my forces. I rejected, telling them how can I retreat whereas ISIS is advancing & ppl r coming to us."