Talabani and especially Barzani are pretty good at doing the diplomatic juggling and maneuvering with all their neighbours and ‘others’. Corruption is and will always be an issue in the ME and actually is prevalent in Southeast Asian countries too. That’s cultural. But Iraqi Kurds have been pretty close to Iran for decades at least. When Saddam was attacking them they often crossed the border into Iran to receive medical treatment. Also there is a Yazidi population in Western Iran too, so there is a close connection. It’s natural since the Kurds are ethnically ‘Iranic’ as i was saying before. When ISIS was fighting Peshmerga and also Kurds in Syria, Iranian pepole were vocal in urging the regime to help them.
Okay, Egyptians and Jordanians regimes may be a slight improvement compared to KSA or Gulf States. But if you do some digging up you’ll see they don’t have a good human rights record, including ‘extraordinary rendition’ (torture). More importantly, I was talking about people from mentioned countries who frequently engage in islamic terrorism. I do recall reading a number of them being from Jordan and Egypt. Zarqawi was a more well-known one.
“From” is the operative word. President Sisi has been relentless enemy of the terrorists, including MB.