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Massoud Barzani refuses to involve in
Iran-US conflict
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January 23, 2007
Erbil, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- President
of Iraqi Kurdistan Region Massoud Barzani stressed
his refusal to be side at recent conflict between
Washington and Tehran considered at the same time
that arrest five Iranians in Erbil not suitable and
expected action, statement of Region Presidency
said.
It added that Barzani said to Iranian Ambassador in
Baghdad Hassan Qummi that Kurdistan is the only
place which didn’t witness intervention of
neighboring states and Region's sovereignty sacred
for Kurds and shouldn’t be violated by anyone.
Worth mentioned that US forces arrested before more
than 10 days 5 Iranians at breaking in to a building
in Erbil, which regional authorities stressed that
it Iranian agency related to Iraqi Government.
The U.S. military said last week that five Iranians
held by its troops in Iraq are linked to
Revolutionary Guards who are arming and funding
Iraqi militants but Tehran called them diplomats and
demanded they be released. |
Massoud Barzani, President of Kurdistan
Region in Iraq |
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One of five Iranians arrested by US forces in
Kurdistan-Iraq last week is the suspected leader of
a commando team that assassinated three Iranian
Kurds in Vienna in 1989, Austrian public radio has
reported.
Austria's Oe1 radio said on January 17 that one of
the arrested Iranians is Mohammad Jafari-Sahroudi,
implicated in the assassination of Dr. Abdul Rahman
Ghassemlou (Qasimlo), the head of the Kurdish
Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), his assistant and
another Kurdish exile.
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