The US and Israel have vast influence in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region and have great interest in the secession of Kurdistan from Iraq, says J. Michael Springmann, a former US diplomat in Saudi Arabia.
The US “encourages the Kurds to rebel against the government of Iraq,” Springmann told Press TV on Sunday. “The United States and Israel have been doing their best for quite some time now to divide Iraq.”
“What they’ve got now is a holy partnership between the United States of America, the Kurds and Israel,” he said.
“Israel has great investment, great control and great influence in northern Iraq,” he added. “They are looking at it as part of Greater Israel.”
Reactions continue to pour in over the independence referendum in the Kurdistan region, which was held in defiance of widespread calls for its cancellation.
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