… from Press TV,  Tehran

Who is turning the screws on who?

[ Editor’s Note: The doo doo has hit the fan for Barzani. What I have been posing in my interviews over the last few days is that, with only Israel supporting the Iraqi Kurdish separatist move, there will be no international group to oppose the sanctions that will be raining down on Kurdistan.

And the biggest blow will be Erdogan cutting off access to Kurdish oil being exported through the Kirkuk-Ceyon pipeline. That will kill a major part of Barzani’s income. Sure, he has stashed away tons of pilfered smuggled oil profits, but that might not last long.

Kurdish government workers are months behind getting paid, and I see that getting worse quickly. The glee we see in the…