The sun does not set until a dictator goes away, and the sun of a new day does not rise until another dictator rises on his track and follows the path of his predecessor, who was absent from the effects of his oppression, oppression, corruption, and the slaughter of thousands of innocent sons of freedom who perished under the whips of his executioners and his servants. In Iraq after 2003, especially in Kurdistan, hidden hands started preparing for a new era for a tyrant. This tyrant will want the Kurds and Iraqis in general to bow down to him and suffer under the weight and shackles of his slaves and executioners, who will take away their freedoms and invade their privacy. Their sense of dignity will die forever. He began his life as a revolutionary and ended it as a dictator. He began his life in a struggle that resulted in domination over the Kurds’ necks and the confiscation of Kurdish freedoms. His life began with patriotism and ended with tyranny, betrayal, and corruption.
Masoud Barzani was born on August 16, 1946, in the Kurdish city of Mahabad, Iran, after the Iranian government suppressed Kurdish opposition movements. Mullah Mustafa Barzani fled Iran with 500 other people, first to Russia, then to Iraq. After the collapse of the monarchy in Iraq, the Iraqi government allowed them to return to the Barzan region in northern Iraq. His father and his comrades began what they called the revolutionary struggle when he was twelve years old, and when he was seventeen, he joined the ranks of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and began working with his brother Idris. At first, when the Kurdistan Democratic Party announced the formation of the interim leadership and the Peshmerga detachments entered the north of Iraq, Masoud was his father Mullah Mustafa Barzani’s right-hand man. He continued to lead the Kurdistan Democratic Party with his older brother Idris after his father died, but things started to change.
He deposed his brother Idris by assassinating him, according to sources, who say Masoud Barzani was behind the assassination of his older brother due to a disagreement over Kurdistan Democratic Party leadership. According to the most common ideas about family and clan in the Barzan tribe, the older brother takes over as leader when the father dies.
He deposed his brother Idris by assassinating him, according to sources, who say Masoud Barzani was behind the assassination of his older brother due to a disagreement over Kurdistan Democratic Party leadership. This set the stage for Masoud Barzani’s second change, which happened after the thing that was stopping him from becoming great was taken away. After defeating Idris, he collaborated with the Ba’ath Party to take control of northern Iraq after a series of conflicts between his party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, commanded by Jalal Talabani. In August 1996, when the conflict between the KDP and PUK parties was at its height of greatness, Masoud Barzani pleaded with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, forgetting his Kurdish national cause, on the basis of which the Kurdistan Democratic Party was founded, and disregarding the lives of his fighters who were killed in the opposition wars. Saddam sent the Republican Guard forces and the PUK fighters were forced out of Erbil by the Republican Guard, who attacked the city and chased them to the Iranian border. Iran then helped the PUK fighters get back most of the land they had lost, but not Erbil.
Thus, we can summarize Massoud Barzani’s transformation from a fighter and defender of the Kurdish cause to a murderer and dictator. His love for the shedding of innocent blood, the confiscation of the liberties of the Kurdish people, and the suppression of their will did not end at this point, and he continued to kill all those who opposed him among the Kurdish population. His love for his position grew, and he has been the president of the Kurdistan region of Iraq since 2005, and today both his son, Masrour Barzani, is being installed as prime minister of the Kurdistan region and his son-in-law, Nechirvan Barzani, as president of the region. Today, it is clear that Massoud and Al Barzani’s dictatorship, which aims to suppress the Kurdish people and make all the Kurdish parties that oppose him less important, is to blame for the killings, arrests, or marginalization of the opposition, as well as the corruption cases.