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The Political Manifesto and Constitution of the KDP
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The 14th Congress of KDP
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Foreign & Commonwealth office
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The Kurdish Policy Imperative
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SENSE OF CONGRESS ON FEDERALISM IN IRAQ
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Iranian official says U.S. request for diplomatic office would be 'deceitful'
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's official news agency quotes the country's parliament speaker as calling reports of U.S. plans to set up diplomatic presence in Iran a "deceitful rumour."
The agency cites Ali Larijani as saying if the Americans were "honest" in their intentions, they would have accepted a 2006 request by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for direct flights between the two countries.
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Iran defiant on EU sanctions
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The Press Association
New EU sanctions on Iran will have no effect on its nuclear activities, the country's president said.
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India should do more to "isolate" Iran: Ackerman
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 (Washington) Opposing India's continued interest in the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project, an influential US lawmaker Gary Ackerman wants New Delhi to do more than ''just implement the UN approved sanctions'' to ''isolate'' Tehran on its nuclear programme. |
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Germany bans Kurdish satellite ROJ TV
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BERLIN, (AFP) — A Danish-based Kurdish broadcaster, ROJ TV, has been banned from German soil because of its support for conflict against Turkey, interior officials in Berlin said Tuesday.
Roj, which means The Day, has also been stripped of its broadcasting licence in Germany, although its satellite transmissions to western Europe can be picked up by satellite dish as before.
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KRG and Korea National Oil Corporation sign new petroleum contracts
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http://www.krg.org
Erbil, Kurdistan – Iraq (KRG.org) – Dr Ashti Hawrami, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister for Natural Resources, today announced that the KRG has awarded two production sharing contracts (PSCs) and approved the assignment of Third Party Interests in a number of existing contracts to Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC), the oil and gas company owned by the Government of the Republic of Korea.
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Rice warns of more sanctions on Iran
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By Sue Pleming
(Editing by Frances Kerry and Jackie Frank)
PALO ALTO (Reuters) - The United States will aggressively impose more sanctions on Iran as long as it refuses to give up sensitive nuclear work and uses the world's financial system for "terrorism," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.
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Obama backs off from pledge to talk with Iran
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The Guardian
Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Barack Obama has begun to edge away from his offer to pursue talks with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after being hammered by Republicans as an "appeaser".
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Bookish former lawyer is Russia's new leader
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Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev
(AP) -A diminutive, softly-spoken former corporate lawyer, Russia's new president Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is an unlikely figure to lead the biggest country on earth.
The first Russian leader in generations to have worked in the private sector, Medvedev, 42, was to be sworn in as president on Wednesday in a lavish televised ceremony in the Kremlin.
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Iran Group Not Terrorists, Court Finds
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 By JOHN F. BURNSLONDON — After a seven-year legal battle, Britain’s Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that the British government was wrong to include an Iranian resistance group, the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, on its list of banned terrorist groups. |
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Iraq says to document Iran "interference"
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By Dean Yates and Waleed Ibrahim
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered the formation of a committee to compile evidence of Iranian "interference" in Iraq that will then be presented to Tehran, the government spokesman said on Sunday.
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By Peter Hirschberg
JERUSALEM - Israeli defense experts were not surprised by a New York Times report over the weekend that the Israeli air force had recently conducted what appeared to be a rehearsal for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
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Are sanctioned Iranian banks actually sponsoring anti-Western terror?
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On the Web site of the largest bank in Iran, Bank Melli (also known as the National Bank of Iran), there are no details that could interest intelligence units.
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Iran slams Greece for joining Israel’s military parade
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TEHRAN - An Iranian official on Tuesday criticized Greece for joining Israel’s latest military exercise that is claimed to be a rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
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National - Kurdistan Region, a laboratory for pilot testing of chemical weaponry
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http://www.peyamner.com
(By H. S. Soran ) -As a writer without frontier - but of Kurdish origin, three years ago, I had an exceptional opportunity to carry out a relatively general field study of Sardasht Chemical Bombardment and its fatal aft
This bestial bombing was committed indiscriminately by Saddam's savage horrible regime, in June * 27, 1987, during Iran/Iraq futile conflict, in which Kurds had no role in igniting its cursed fire.
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Iranian group in UK terror win
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7471999.stm
An Iranian opposition organisation is pushing to be legalised across the EU after being taken off the UK's list of alleged terrorist groups.
The People's Mojahedin of Iran, also known as Mujaheddin-e-Khalq, has been legalised in the UK after winning an earlier court battle.
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Petraeus: Troops in Iraq help blunt Iran threat
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The Associated Press
By ANNE FLAHERTY
WASHINGTON (AP) — Army Gen. David Petraeus, who is to assume control of U.S. forces in the Middle East, says that a continued U.S. presence in Iraq is more likely to blunt, rather than inflame, Iran's growing influence in the region.
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Rice says Iran must make "right choice"
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Editing by Eric Beech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran on Wednesday that if it did not make the "right choice" and abandon sensitive nuclear work it faced more punitive action from the international community.
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Iraq readies arms case against Iran
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The Washington Times
By Sara A. Carter
Iraq's ambassador to the U.S. said yesterday that a high-level committee will investigate Iran's role in arms trafficking across his country's borders, after the discovery of large caches of weapons and explosive devices recently manufactured in Iran.
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Hezbollah trains Iraqis in Iran, officials say
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The New York Times
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
BAGHDAD — Militants from the Lebanese group Hezbollah have been training Iraqi militia fighters at a camp near Tehran, according to American interrogation reports that the United States has supplied to the Iraqi government.
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Iran Rejects More Iraq Talks With U.S.
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By GRAHAM BOWLEYIran said that it would not hold talks with the United States on Iraq while American forces were fighting Shiite militias in Sadr City, the Iranian Foreign Ministry reported on its Web site on Monday. |
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