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Someone should tell the
U.S. government that America is at war with Iran
says American scholar Michael Ledean. He described
how the Iranian government in March tried to
transport vehicles with poison gas to
South-Kurdistan. Ledean uses the right terminology
for Iranian- and Iraqi-Kurdistan. Sadly America is
on a reconciliation tour with Iran and is probable
preparing to leave Iraq. Currently the Kurdish media
is focused on "Intra-Kurdistan" affairs while
Kurdistan is threatened by bigger forces outside
South-Kurdistan.
I will quote interesting parts of his
article.
" In early March, to take one recent example,
several vehicles crossed from Iranian Kurdistan into
Iraqi Kurdistan. The Iraqis [Kurdish security
forces] stopped them. There was a firefight. The
leader of the intruding group was captured and is
now in prison, held by one of the Kurdish factions.
The Kurds say that the vehicles contained poison
gas, which they have in their possession".
Sadly the Turkish government, the so-called ally of
American didn't want the help the Kurds. " They
[Kurdish] say they informed the Turks, who said they
did not want to know anything about it (the Turks
don't want anything to do with the Kurds, period,
and they shrink from confrontation with the
mullahs)" .
"The Kurds holding this man say that he confessed to
working for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
Apparently they have his confession. They say they
are willing to make him available to U.S. military
personnel. But the Pentagon, which has all this
information, has not pursued the matter. This is
just one of many cases in which the Iranians believe
they see the Americans running away from
confrontation".
He also described the situation in Eastern Kurdistan
as extremely tense and said western journalists
aren't able to cover the events here. He only
forgets that Kurds have their own new year, called
Newroz. It's not only Persian.
"The city of Mahabad is now surrounded by the
regime's military and paramilitary forces, following
the eruption of anti-regime demonstrations on the
occasion of Persian New Year's celebrations on March
20. It is impossible to get precise figures —
Western journalists don't seem to be able to cover
such events — but dozens of Kurds were arrested and
many more were beaten up in the streets".
What's America up too? Has this to do with the
coming elections and the end of Bush's as a
president of the US? Is America too afraid to
confront the radical Iranian regime? Why America
talks with Iran about Iraq? Do they accept Iran's
power over Iraq? Is US leaving Iraq what an Asia
Times correspondent predicted
here?
While Kurdish and pro-Kurdish writers are currently
focusing on corruption in the Kurdish government,
Dr. Kemal Said Qadir (1.5 years prison), Mariwan
Halabjee (fled to Sweden), protests in Halabja
(Alleged involvement by Iran), Hawez Hawezi (Faces
court and probable gets a small fine), the Big
Brother Iran is watching with joy to the division
among Kurds and is transporting drugs, agents,
weapons, chemicals and poison gas to
South-Kurdistan.
In the meanwhile the brothers of the Southern Kurds
in Mahabad, Urmiye are killed, imprisoned,
poverty-stricken and poisened with drugs. Kurdish
newspapers fail to report about their brothers on
the other side of the border in fear of the Iranian
regime.
"The sad thing is our own Kurdish media especially
in South Kurdistan is too scared to broadcast even a
little story about ruthless acts [against the Kurd]
like these. I guess us Kurds always care about other
people around us not our own race. I'm saying this
cause I used to live in South-Kurdistan and as soon
as a little thing happens in East-Kurdistan everyone
know about it," said a sad Kurd from Iranian
Kurdistan.
Recently a Kurd from East-Kurdistan was shot in
Iraqi-Kurdistan by Iranian security forces. He was
shot in Hajiomeran which is 5 km away from
Iranian-Kurdistan.
The Iranian government accuses Kurdish people of
being smugglers, but in real live they trie to feed
their kids due to the poverty in their region,
caused by the ineffective mullah regime.
I personally talked with the Dutch Journalist Judit
Neurink and her Kurdish translator. They both said
Kurdish newspapers are marked by regionalism. It's
good that they are independent newspapers, but why
only focus on your own part of Kurdistan? You are
not tied to PUK or KDP. You don't have to be
friendly to the Iranian regime like PUK or KDP
newspapers, because of possible lucrative deals or
fears for the Iranian regime. Sadly foreign writers
like Michael Ledean and me have to show an example
to the Kurdish newspapers.
I wonder what will happen with the Kurdish
autonomous region if the US leaves Iraq. Let's hope
the Kurdish media will report about the dreadfull
events then.
http://vladimirkurdistan.blogspot.com/
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