This came in a speech during a ceremony held today in Erbil on the occasion of the death anniversary of the prominent politician and leader Idris Barzani, son of the Kurdish leader Mulla Mustafa Barzani.

Al-Najjar said during the speech that "forming a province for he Sunnis is a right guaranteed by the Iraqi constitution," adding that "but when officials talk about forming a new region, they start raising the issue of dividing Iraq."

Al-Najjar added that "forming the regions does not mean dividing Iraq, but rather means sharing the administration in the country," adding "we support the formation of a region for Sunnis in Iraq."

Recently, political parties raised the issue of forming a region for the Sunnis after the Iraqi parliament voted to exit foreign forces from Iraq on the background of the assassination of the prominent Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, and the deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Forces , Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis in an American air strike by a drone near Baghdad International Airport.

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