The U.S. is angry with Barzani

Cha­l­abi told Al-Hayat today that one arti­cle in the secu­rity agree­ment gives the U.S. forces to use their mil­i­tary bases in Iraq to attack other countries.

Cha­l­abi said that point 4 from arti­cle 5 says that both sides [Iraq, U.S.] have the right to defend them­selves, and he added that this is a very flex­i­ble point.

Accord­ing to the Kur­dish news­pa­per Hawlati, Wash­ing­ton is very upset with recent Barzani’s visit to Iran because he didn’t coor­di­nated this visit with the Americans.

The source said that the Amer­i­cans want to dis­tance the Kurds away from Iran but Iran wants to give a mes­sage to the Amer­i­cans that the Kurds are more close to Tehran than to Washington.

The news­pa­per con­cludes that Barzani’s visit to Iran is an answer to the U.S. sup­port for Maliki in the Iraqi gov­ern­ment cri­sis with Kurds about Kirkuk.

That explains the rea­son behind the U.S. State Department’s invi­ta­tion for Barzani.