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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Kurdistan Region’s Security Council (KRSC) denounced Sunday an accusation from Syria that its Chancellor Masrour Barzani is a terror financier.Lebanon-based pro-Hezbollah newspaper al-Akhbar on Saturday claimed they had obtained a list of “Financial Supporters of Terrorism” complied by Syria’s Combatting Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Commission.Hundreds of leaders and public figures are on the list, including the head of Kurdistan Region’s security body – Masrour Barzani, who has been tipped to be the next regional prime minister.“It is ridiculous for a chauvinistic, oppressive, and anti-Kurd regime – which has supported terrorists to stay in power – to talk about terrorism in a bid to act as if it is a better alternative to the radicals,” read a statement of outrage from the KRSC late on Sunday.“How can a regime, which has used prohibited weapons against civilians and killed hundreds of thousands of Syrian people and displaced millions more to neighboring countries, claim to have such a list?!” it asked.Most of the more than 600 persons named on the list are anti-Assad figures.In addition to Barzani, it includes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and prominent Qatar-based Egyptian Sunni cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi.KRSC believes their support for Rojava – the Kurdish self-autonomous region in northern Syria – is what put Barzani on Damascus’ blacklist.“One has to be proud to be accused of supporting the oppressed and victimized,” said the KRSC.The Syrian government has not confirmed the veracity of al-Akhbar's report.