Ashti Hawrami - Minister for Natural Resources, Kurdistan Regional Government
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Ashti Hawrami, Minister for Natural Resources in Kurdistan's regional government, about tensions between the Kurdish region and Baghdad.
Kurds in Iraq are growing restless and impatient over the violence and open political rivalries in Baghdad, between Shias and Sunnis.
Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region of four million is a haven of relative stability and prosperity and what's more has its own oil riches to exploit.
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Ashti Hawrami. For the last six years, he's been Minister for Natural Resources in Kurdistan's regional government.
Why are Kurds upsetting the central government by increasingly seizing control of their oil resources and exports? Do they have plans to breakaway?
(Image: Ashti Hawrami. Credit: AFP / Getty Images)
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