Iraq has expected this current war for many months, as have many regional countries.
But rather than facilitate imports — to stock up on critical food supplies etc — it introduced 30% tariff hikes and a customs system in January without adequate notice to the market.
Now oil exports and imports through the Strait of Hormuz have flatlined. Iran has closed all of its border crossings with Iraq too, disrupting food supplies.
The only route to market is now through the Kurdistan Region — for both exports and imports, including oil.
Against this backdrop, Baghdad continues to block ALL dollar transfers for ALL imports through the Kurdistan Region, as it has done since January. Yesterday, Baghdad once again rejected the KRG's proposal for an interim solution.
Iraqi and KRI-based importers have nowhere else to go and cannot import, in a moment when everything should be done to facilitate trade and maximise exports.
Jiyan Omar, a Kurdish youth, confronted Faisal Al-Qassim and all Arabs on the lying Al-Jazeera channel. His rebuttal is so profound it should be taught in the universities of anti-Kurdish nations.
#Rojava
ISIS out of prison thanks to Syria just a few days ago and already there was almost a suicide bomb attack in Iraq today. This is what you all wanted right?
US Senator Lindsey Graham announced on Tuesday that he plans to introduce legislation this week aimed at imposing "crippling sanctions" on any government or group engaged in "hostilities against the Kurds," in a measure he referred to as "The Save the Kurds Act" - Statement
So the Damascus led terrorists keep breaching the ceasefire by killing civilians around Kobanê and continuing their indiscriminate shelling. And we have to not shoot back or they’re going to blame us for breaching the ceasefire? Is this a one sided ceasefire?
Bella Hadid removing Free Kurdistan definitely after searching and finding out the genocides and massacres on Kurdish people is diabolical, another fake human rights activist shouting free palestine but ignoring the Kurds because they’re a minority with no state.
🚨🇸🇾 Throwback: The moment Syrian "president" al-Jolani was arrested in 2006 by the Iraqi security forces while wearing a wedding dress in an attempt to hide himself.
Civilian from Kobani: This baby is only 40 days old and has no baby milk to drink. If the world truly talks about human rights, how can such politics exist—politics that leave an infant without milk?