Im shaun ley. Seventy years ago, leader Mustafa Barzani made a declaration of kurdish independence which was ignored. Last month, his son masoud won a referendum in iraq, intended to achieve it. However baghdad says it will impose its rule instead. If the kurds are to succeed, masrour, grandson of one barzani, son of the other, will need all the clout hes acquired waging war on the group that calls itself islamic state. He believes that has earned kurds the right to a state of their own. But with iraq, iran, turkey, syria and much of the world against them, could this referendum end up delivering the kurds even less than the autonomy that they enjoy now . Masrour barzani, in erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, thank you for being here. How has this referendum made things better for the kurds . As you know, we have been having problems with baghdad all along and we have tried every other means to make sure resolve problems peacefully but u nfortu nately resolve problems peacefully but unfortunat
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