Iraqi Kurdish officials call Iran's Soleimani film 'insult' to Peshmerga

Peshmerga that fought on the front lines against the Islamic State see the film as an "insult and belittling the role of Peshmergas."
Iraqi youths watch an event celebrating the inauguration of a street named after the late Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in the southern city of Basra on January 8, 2021, more than a year after a US drone strike killed Iran's revered commander Qasem Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant Muhandis (image) near the capital. (Photo by Hussein FALEH / AFP) (Photo by HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP via Getty Images)
Iraqi youths watch an event celebrating the inauguration of a street named after the late Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in the southern city of Basra on Jan. 8, 2021, more than a year after a US drone strike killed Iran's revered commander Qasem Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant Muhandis (image) near the capital. - HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP via Getty Images
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A new film portraying Iran’s former Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani as saving Iraqi Kurdistan during the Islamic State’s incursion in 2014 has angered the Kurdistan Regional Government, which has lodged a formal complaint with Tehran over what it calls “distorted facts.”

“Unfortunately the film has not done any justice to the sacrifices of Peshmergas nor to the Iranian units,” head of the KRG’s foreign relations department Safeen Dizayee told Al-Monitor, referring to the military force of Iraqi Kurdistan.

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