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Iraq's parliament discusses Iranian
shelling of villages in Iraqi Kurdistan
6.9.2007
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September
6, 2007
BAGHDAD - Iraqi parliament discussed on
Wednesday the Iranian shelling of Kurdish villages
in Kurdistan region (northern Iraq), urging the
government to take necessary moves to bring to a
halt the continued shelling.
"The people fleeing form the villages affected by
the Iranian shelling go through incalculable
hardships," legislator Saad Barznji, from the
Kurdistan Alliance, told Wednesday's session.
The Kurdish parliamentarian requested an immediate
intervention by the House to stop these acts,
leading the Speaker to decide the issuance of a
statement condemning the shelling and urging the
government to take necessary steps to prevent its
continuation.
Villages in Iraq's Kurdistan region near to the
borders with Iran have been under a repeated Iranian
shelling for what Tehran said "the presence of armed
groups in these areas, that target armed forces
inside Iranian territories."
The continued shelling forced scores of Kurdish
villagers to
abandon their homes and to
take refuge in camps set up by local
authorities in Sulaimaniyah.
The session convened after more than an hour delay
as the U.S. forces sealed off the entries to the
parliament hall inside the fortified Green Zone in
central Baghdad because of what the Speaker
described as "a security emergency situation."
VOI
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