An Iraqi parliamentary committee, in a recent visit to Washington, has reiterated its demands to divide Iraq into three regions in a bid to solve the current problems plaguing the country. These demands have been made several times in the past, and they consist of creating three major regions that enjoy demographic and political unity — Shiite in the south, Sunni in the west and center, and Kurdish in the north.
In both popular and media memory, this idea has been associated with the name of US Vice President Joe Biden, as he was the one to suggest it when he was a senator in 2007. At the time, the idea was opposed by the Baker-Hamilton Co mmission, which was set up by former US President George W. Bush to study the situation in Iraq after the outbreak of civil war in 2006.
