[1] After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1919, Iraq became a League of Nations mandate under temporary British control.
Mahmud Barzanji led a Kurdish revolt against the British and in 1922 attempted to establish a state in northern Iraq.
In 1970 the Iraqi government agreed to create the Kurdistan Region covering three provinces of northern Iraq.
After the end of the Gulf War in 1991 the Kurdish region rose up against President Saddam Hussein and gained de facto independence under the protection of a no fly zone.
Legislators from the Iraqi Accord Front, Sadrist Movement and Islamic Virtue Party all opposed the bill.