Barzani: "Still Not Enthusiastic About the Flag"

Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan: In an exclusive statement to Pivazistan's Erbil correspondent Massoud Barzani, the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government stated that the new Iraqi flag is slightly better than the last one, but added "I am still not enthusiastic about it."

The Iraqi flag was recently changed by a parliamentary bill in Baghdad. The new flag is rid of the three stars, something that reminded Barzani of Syria and Egypt, two countries that the Kurds view as "Arab countries." The new Iraqi flag which has the Arabic words of "Allahu Akbar" written in the Kufi style flies over the skies of Kurdistan but nobody in Kurdistan takes it seriously.

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