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The Kurdistan Democratic Party’s (KDP) offices in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad was set on fire on Monday by hundreds of pro-Iran protestors and loyalists of Iraq’s top Shia religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, after a tweet by a former KDP parliamentary candidate was interpreted as critical and insulting to the cleric. Naif Jardo Ahmed Al-Gargari, who ran as a KDP candidate during the 2018 Iraqi parliament elections and tweets under the name of “Naif Kurdistani” wrote in a tweet on Sunday: “I am with an Arabic clergy from the prophet’s lineage…. and not with an Indian, Persian, or…