Iraq’s government will move to impose control over Kurdistan based mobile phone operators and move their headquarters to Bagdad it announced on Monday.
The announcement was made following a meeting of top security officials reports Reuters.
“The government committee for national security issued a decision that all mobile phone networks must be under federal control and should be moved to Baghdad,” it said.
The latest move comes a week after Iraq annoucnd financial sanctiosn against Kurdistan.
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