In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24, Masoud Barzani, president of Iraq’s Kurdistan region, said Kurdish requests from the international coalition for heavy weapons in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group have not been fully met.
Speaking to FRANCE 24’s Marc Perelman in the autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, Barzani thanked France and members of the international coalition for its help in the fight against the IS group. But, he noted, the coalition has failed to deliver on the quantity and quality of heavy weapons needed to stop the IS assault in Iraq.
“All the support that we have received so far is not up to the level that is needed,” said Barzani. “The heavy weapons systems that we need, especially in terms of the quality and quantity, for example the APCs (armoured personnel carriers), the helicopters, the artillery we need for a decisive war against them – we have not received these types of weapons.”
When asked why Kurdish fighters, who are on the vanguard of the fight against IS, have not received critical heavy weapons systems, Barzani said he had no answers, only questions. “Is there a ceiling on the heavy weapons systems that we should receive in terms of the quantity and quality? The answer is not very clear to us.”Read the rest of the story HERE and listen to the Barzani interview below:
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