I think it is a pressure sheet on the Iraqi government to get benefits

I think it is an attempt to pressure the Iraqi government, and get gains from them

Kurdish President Massoud Barzani ignored the American and European pressure to postpone the referendum on the independence of the region, and drew sharp criticism to Kurdish forces opposed to the timing of the referendum, stressing that «the step does not mean the declaration of the state».

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The President of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani, finally met with the main political parties and parties participating in the government except the Movement for Change and the opposition and the Kurdistan Islamic Group, and stressed the holding of a referendum on the fate and future of the Kurdistan region before the start of presidential elections in the United States, Obama.

The head of the provincial office, Fouad Hussein, said that the visit that Barzani was scheduled to take, finally, to the United States to meet with Obama was postponed to a later time », adding that Barzani and Vice President Joe Biden« stressed that the current stage is a sensitive stage and require continuation Contacts and exchanges between Washington and Arbil ».

According to the 2005 census, the population of Iraq's Kurdish region is 5.5 million, most of them Kurds, as well as other minorities such as Arabs, Turkomans and Assyrians. The majority of these populations are Sunni Muslims as well as religious minorities from Christians, Alawites, Sabians and Jews.

The area of the Kurdistan region of Iraq is 40 thousand square kilometers, it was 37 thousand kilometers on March 11, 1970 and include three main areas are Erbil, Dahuk and Sulaymaniyah.

Iraq's Kurdistan, which operates 24 oil groups, exports about 100,000 barrels of oil a day through the Turkish port of Ceyhan. The export of this oil has raised recurrent problems between Erbil and the Baghdad government. In 2013, the Kurdistan Region and Turkey established their own pipeline to export oil to Europe via the Turkish port of Ceyhan.