Biden may have sympathies for the Kurdish cause, but as US president, he will not always act in the Kurdish interest.
![United States Vice President Joe Biden and President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Masoud Barzani talk during a press conference in Erbil on September 17, 2009 [File: AP/Yahya Ahmed]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AP_090917035611.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Yerevan Saeed is a Research Associate at Middle East Research Institute.
Biden may have sympathies for the Kurdish cause, but as US president, he will not always act in the Kurdish interest.
![United States Vice President Joe Biden and President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Masoud Barzani talk during a press conference in Erbil on September 17, 2009 [File: AP/Yahya Ahmed]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AP_090917035611.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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