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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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Kurdistan Regional Government
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Amnesty International Publications
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Foreign & Commonwealth office
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 King Charles Street London SW1A 2AH
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 The Kurdish Policy Imperative
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U.S. Department Of State
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SENSE OF CONGRESS ON FEDERALISM IN IRAQ
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Resolution regarding Ghassemlou's assassination approved
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 On July 21, 2008, a resolution was approved in the House of Lords, at the British Parliament, to ask the European Union states to collect and publish the evidence on Dr. Ghassemlou’s case as well as that of other political Iranian dissidents in Europe.
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U.S. seeks talking over war with Iran
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By Sue Pleming - Analysis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With just six months left in office, the Bush administration has done an about-face in joining talks with Tehran over its nuclear program, a move analysts say is driven partly by a desire to avoid war with Iran.
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Solana hopes for "constructive response" from Iran
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 BERLIN (Reuters) - EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Wednesday he hoped for a "constructive response" at his meeting with Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili in Geneva on Saturday, but added he could not guarantee success.
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U.S. says Iran has missile that could hit Europe
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 By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday that Iran has the ability to launch a ballistic missile capable of hitting sections of eastern and southern Europe.
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Iran to hold large air force exercise
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(Writing by Fredrik Dahl)
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's air force plans to hold a large-scale exercise to strengthen deterrence against any threats, a media report said, a week after the country test-fired missiles in war games criticised by the West.
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Saudi offers Russia arms deal to curb Iran ties
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 MOSCOW (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has offered to award major arms contracts to Russia in return for Moscow curtailing cooperation with Iran, Russia's Kommersant newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified diplomatic sources.
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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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seminar to be held to celebrate and the achievements and
Works of Kurdish great leader the late Dr. A.R. Ghassemlou
Organised by:
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U.S. envoy to join meeting with Iranian
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The New York Times
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
WASHINGTON — President Bush has authorized the most significant American diplomatic contact with Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, sending the State Department’s third-ranking official to Geneva for a meeting this weekend on Iran’s nuclear program, administration officials said Tuesday.
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American envoy to join Iran talks
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The Washington Post
Move Is Departure From Prior Policy
By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer
The Bush administration will send a senior envoy this weekend to international talks with Iran about its nuclear program in what U.S. officials described as a "one-time deal" designed to demonstrate a serious desire to negotiate a solution to the impasse over Tehran's ambitions.
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U.S. to send envoy to Iran talks
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 By Sue Pleming
(Editing by John O'Callaghan and Jackie Frank)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a shift in policy, the United States will send an envoy to talks this weekend between Iran and major powers over Tehran's nuclear program, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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US says it is concerned about student arrests in Iran
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 WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US State Department said Tuesday it was concerned that the Iranian authorities have increased "repression of student activists" following the reported arrests of two more students.
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Israel, Iran and the bomb
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The Wall Street Journal
OPINION
By JOHN R. BOLTON
Iran's test salvo of ballistic missiles last week together with recent threatening rhetoric by commanders of the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards emphasizes how close the Middle East is to a fundamental, in fact an irreversible, turning point.
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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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 Murder at Mykonos: Anatomy of a Political Assassination
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