Iraq Ambassador Accuses Kurds of Kirkuk ‘Disinformation’ Campaign

Iraq’s top diplomat in Washington, D.C., cried foul Friday over Kurdish government charges that Iran backed Iraq’s campaign to retake Kirkuk.

“The KRG has been mounting what I call a campaign of quasi-disinformation, trying to paint this as an Iranian-led affair,” Iraq’s ambassador to the U.S. Fareed Yasseen said of the Kurdish Regional Government claims, in remarks to reporters Friday.

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