Irakisch-kurdische Firmen boykottieren Iran
Im Bazar in Erbil, Bild: Thomas v. der Osten-Sacken
Nach den Raketenangriffen auf Erbil rief die kurdische Handelskammer zum Boykott iranischer Waren und Firmen auf.
Wut und Ärger auf den Iran sind sowohl in Irakisch-Kurdistan als auch dem Restirak groß. Dem Aufruf der Handelskammer sind bislang mehr als hundert Firmen gefolgt:
About 100 traders have answered a call to boycott Iranian goods less than two weeks after Iran fired ballistic missiles at Erbil, killing a Kurdish businessman.
“As of now, about 100 businessmen in the Kurdistan Region have decided to boycott Iranian products,” Gaylan Haji Said, president of the Erbil Chamber of Commerce, told Rudaw on Friday.
The boycott so far has made a minor impact on the volume of trade with Iran, according to Said, but he expects it will be “more evident in the upcoming weeks and months.”
"In the near future, ordinary citizens will notice the impact of the boycott in markets and places selling Iranian goods,” he said.
The Erbil Chamber of Commerce last week called for a boycott of Iranian products in protest of Tehran’s deadly missile attacks on the Kurdish capital.
On January 15, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired ten ballistic missiles toward Erbil under the pretext of targeting the “spy headquarters” of anti-Iran groups. The strike killed Kurdish businessman Peshraw Dizayee and three other people. Dizayee’s mansion, destroyed in the attack, was described by Tehran as a Mossad base - a claim denied by Kurdish and Iraqi officials.