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Iran's new president snubs Kurds
7.7.2005
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Tehran, Iran,
Jul. 06 – Iran’s President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
harshly turned down demands by Kurdish members of
the Majlis (Parliament) to include Iranian Kurds in
his cabinet, a Kurdish deputy said after meeting
Ahmadinejad.
Mohammad Karimian, a deputy from the Kurdish region
of Sardasht and Piranshahr in western Iran, was
speaking to reporters after a Kurdish delegation met
Ahmadinejad in his temporary office in the Iranian
parliament.
“In the meeting, we suggested the names of Kurds who
were suitable be included in Ahmadinejad’s cabinet
and we told him that, in light of events in Iraq and
the election of a Kurd as President, it was
imperative for him to invite Kurds to take part in
the cabinet”.
Ahmadinejad was quoted by the Majlis deputy as
having abruptly replied, “Don’t try to prod me with
talk of Iraqi Kurdistan! I don’t take them as a
model”.
Kurds, one of the largest minority groups in Iran,
have long suffered under Iran’s clerical regime.
Kurdish sources and other Iranian opposition groups
have said that Ahmadinejad was involved in the
suppression of ethnic Kurds in Iran as a top
commander in the Revolutionary Guards’ Ramezan
Garrison in western Iran in the 1980s and as the
security adviser to the governor-general of
Kurdistan Province.
Austrian officials said this week that they were
investigating Ahmadinejad’s alleged role in the 1989
assassination of a prominent Iranian Kurd in Vienna
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