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Cross-Posted: “Barzani: America, Turkey will not block Kurdish independence”

Kurdish flag banners were hung hung along Salim St., one of the main streets in Sulaymaniyah. On the whole, decorations were minimal compared to regular elections, when the city is festooned with banners and signs.

After the president of the Kurdish region in Iraq declared plans for a referendum on independence last Thursday, one of his biggest obstacles has been the response of key foreign powers.

Although the US has publicly advocated a unified Iraq, President Barzani now expects neither “active assistance or resistance” from the US or Turkey.

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