This week while in Washington I had an opportunity to sit down with Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, the chairman of the Kurdish Redevelopment Corporation.

The KRC is an organization that seeks to promote investment and capital projects in the Kurdish region, which is composed of northern Iraq as well as parts of Syria, Iran, and Turkey. The Kurds have their own democratic government and parliament separate from the above nations. The “host” nations only provide some national security and financial needs; everything else is done by the government of Kurdistan. (more…)