Seventy years ago, a leader called Mustafa Barzani made a declaration of kurdish independence it was ignored. Last month, his son won a referendum in iraq, intended to achieve it. Baghdad says it will impose its rule instead. If the kurds are to succeed, masrour, my guest today, grandson of one barzani, son of the other, and head of security and intelligence in Iraqi Kurdistan, will need all the guile hes acquired waging war on the group that calls itself islamic state. He thinks that has earned kurds the right to a state of their own. But with iraq, iran, turkey, 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, welcome to hardtalk, thank you for being with us today. Thank you for having me. The man driving the independent push is how you were described recently. How has this referendum made things better for the kurds . Well, as you know, we have been havin
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