Barzani's Plan for Independent Kurdistan Means Rebellion aga

[Aslan]

Speaking to FNA on Tuesday, member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Ebrahim Aqa Mohammadi reminded that Iraq's Kurdish people are the only ethnic group in the country who enjoy some kind of internal independence in a federal framework.

But when this ethnic group talks of autonomy and separation, this means disintegration and violation of Iraq's sovereignty in terms of both international and national laws, which is, thus, an unacceptable move, he added.

"Barzani's new scenario about creation of an independent state in Iraq is unacceptable in terms of both the international laws and the definition of Iraq's sovereignty, and is just an adventurist move which is in no way in the interest of Kurds," he stated.

After some voices were heard about a Barzani plan for the disintegration of Iraq, a prominent Turkmen member of the Iraqi parliament underlined his ethnic group's strong opposition to any plan to divide Iraq into three states, and described it as an Israeli plot to undermine Iraq's power.

"Disintegrating Iraq into three Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish states is a plot hatched by Israel," Mohammad Mehdi Bayati, a Turkmen member of the Iraqi parliament, said Wednesday.

He added that Turkmens are strongly against the plot, specially creation of an independent Kurdish state as proposed by Barzani which would also include Turkmen regions.

Bayati stated that the plot is based on ethnic discrimination, aimed at undermining the Iraqi nation, and called on Iraq's politicians to avoid tilting to ethnic tendencies.