Masrour Barzani seeks “ultimate control and a personality cult on par with President Isaias Afwerki in Eritrea”, U.S. academic Michael Rubin has written. In a piece published by the US-based National Security Journal, Rubin argued that corruption in Kurdistan has worsened, adding: “The Iraqi Kurdish leaders may believe they are indispensable to Washington, but they are wrong.”
National Security Journal – Iraqi Kurds Deserve Better
