births
August 16, 1946
Masoud Barzani, Iranian-Kurdish politician, President of Iraqi Kurdistan
Masoud Barzani
Masoud Barzani is a Kurdish politician who has been leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) since 1979, and was President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq from 2005 to 2017.
President of Kurdistan Region
The president of Kurdistan Region is the head of semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq. They are part of the Kurdistan Presidency Council. The current president of Kurdistan Region is Nechirvan Barzani, who assumed office on 10 June 2019.