Sourced: Al Monitor
By Mustafa Saadoun
With seemingly nowhere else to turn, beleaguered Iraqi Kurds are seeking salvation through Shiite religious authorities. The crisis between Iraq’s central government in Baghdad and the Kurdish headquarters in Erbil appears to have laid waste to all other internal and external attempts to resolve the repercussions of the Sept. 25 Kurdish independence referendum.
Baghdad’s latest salt in Erbil’s wounds came March 4, when it cut the Kurds’ share of the 2018 general budget to 12.6% from 17%. The Kurds then threatened to withdraw from the political process, as Massoud Barzani, the former president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), said this reduction was “undermining the rights of the Kurds.”
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