Whenever he gets the rare complaint, he said, it's always from the former eastern zone.
Across the Mekong in the eastern zone, Muslim Chams revolted in 1975.
The Qataris have offered to sell any oil exported from the eastern zone.
Fairadoon Abdulkader, minister of the interior in an eastern zone controlled by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, was equally blunt.
"We were doing a programme called Letters Without Signature, where people living in the eastern zone could write a letter.
Chewa, Bantu-speaking people living in the extreme eastern zone of Zambia, northwestern Zimbabwe, Malaŵi, and Mozambique.
"But this time," the spokesman added, "the military council of the eastern zone will decide their fate".
"Kurdish intelligence is not that clever or smart to determine if these are lies or true things," Faraidoon Abdulkader, interior minister in the Kurdish eastern zone.
The Eastern zone comprises 48percentt of the nation's households; it posted a 35percentt ratings plunge for the Series after 11 p.m.
Barham Salih, a leader of the Kurds' eastern zone, said that among the Ansar dead was Mullah Abdullah Khalifani, the deputy commander of the group's military wing.
Dr. Barham Salih, prime minister of the eastern zone of northern Iraq, leaves open the possibility that both views are right.
