Rasa - After a string of developments including the independence referendum, the Iraqi army and Popular Mobilization Forces' operation to retake the disputed regions that mainly quashed the Kurdish leader’s dream to split from Iraq and found independent Kurdish state, and very lately Masoud Barzani 's disinclined resignation as president of the autonomous region of Kurdistan, Barzani made a bitter televised speech on October 29 in which he lashed out at the US.

Rasa – Hujjat al-Islam Mojtaba Zonnour said that the United States is using every opportunity to change the tranquility and geopolitical region of the region and said, “The US identifies and activates the political and religious faults which befit its interests.”

Rasa - The Arabic language al-Hayat daily said rifts are widening between the main Kurdish parties over the Monday referendum, and KRG President Masoud Barzani 's party might be eventually left alone.