The show of unity and mutual support was on display during Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s visit to the Kurdish region of Iraq, where he was welcomed by Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani in Erbil. The two leaders embraced at Erbil International Airport, with Barzani speaking in Farsi to Iranian media and Pezeshkian responding in Kurdish to a question from Rudaw, a major broadcaster in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. In a propaganda campaign, Iranian state media heavily promoted the symbolic language exchange between the two politicians, portraying it as evidence of an all-time high i…