Kurdistan Regional Government official says Iraq's law criminalizing relations with 'Zionist entity' does not represent country's population as a whole, and Kurds 'see Israel as their ally and value their historic ties.'

The Iraqi parliament late last month passed a law that criminalizes any relationship with Israel. The law makes illegal any attempt of any Iraqi citizen, company or institution to normalize ties with Israeli citizens, companies, or institutions. But the law does not represent the feelings of all Iraqis, analysts say.

The bill was proposed by Muqtada al-Sadr, a Shiite cleric and politician who belongs to a Shiite Muslim political party that opposes ties with the United States and Israel.

As reported by Ynet
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