Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, and Parliament Speaker Rewas Fayaq were in the meeting, along with vice presidents Mustafa Said Qadir and Jaafar Sheikh Mustafa, KRG Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani, and several others, NRT reported.
Tensions between the US and Iran have risen dramatically in recent weeks, but escalated on Friday when the US asasinated Iran’s top commander Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in an airstrike in Baghdad on Friday.
In response, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched 22 missiles on the Ain al-Assad air base housing US troops in Anbar province and the coalition headquarters in Erbil on Wednesday.
The attacks caused no casualties, according to the Iraqi army.
Much like the government in Baghdad, the Kurdistan Region has significant political, economic, and military ties with both Washington and Tehran. Over the past several days, officials in Erbil have urged restraint and de-escalation.
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<p style="text-align:left">Kurdistan Region&rsquo;s senior political leadership has gathered on Wednesday, January 8, to discuss the escalating situation in Iraq and the region hours after Iran fired several missiles at a base near Erbil, the capital of the autonomous region.
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