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Khorramshahr, 30 years after iraq/iran war
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Once Upon A Time In Iran – Full Movie
The 2007 documentary by Channel 4 about the ideology behind Iranian Shiism. The role of Imam Hussein and Islam among the Iranian people, the struggle between good and evil in contemporary politics and society viewed through the historical glasses of the tragic Karbala incident. Iranian pilgrims visit the tomb of Imam Hussein that tells their own hidden stories. Channel 4 attempts to reveal the mysterious martyrdom culture of Iranians to the British public.
A steady drumbeat of leaks suggests that the US and/or Israel may attack Iran sometime over the coming months. Once Upon a Time in Iran is a road movie featuring pilgrims and presidents: a journey to the spiritual heartlands of the Iranian people and a tale of martyrdom that defines their view of aggressors and the outside world.
Irak: “Iraq and the Kurds: The High-Stakes Hydrocarbons Gambit”
Quelle: International Crisis Group
Irak: “Iraq and the Kurds: The High-Stakes Hydrocarbons Gambit”
Bericht zu zunehmenden Spannungen zwischen der Föderalregierung und der kurdischen Regionalregierung im Zusammenhang mit Ressourcen und umstrittenen Gebieten im Nordirak [ID 214523]
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Iran Document: The Repression, Abuse, and Execution of Iranian Kurds
The five Iranians executed in May 2010Our colleagues at Arseh Sevom, pursuing civil society in Iran, profile a new report documenting the violations of the rights of Iranian Kurds, including intimidation, lengthy prison sentences, and the death penalty:
Soon it will be two years since the executions of four Kurdish activists shocked the international community. One of those executed was the teacher Farzad Kamangar, whose plight had been the focus of an international campaign. Ali Heydarian, Farhad Vakili, and Shirin Alamhouli were also hung, as was political prisoner Mehdi Eslamian. Read the rest of this entry
SWP: Irans nördliche Nachbarschaft
Kaukasische Ängste vor einer Eskalation des Atomstreits
SWP-Aktuell 2012/A 22, April 2012, 4 SeitenIm Südkaukasus befürchten Regierungen, ihre Region könnte in eine militärische Eskalation des Konflikts um das iranische Atomprogramm hineingezogen werden. Dies gilt besonders für Aserbaidschan, dessen Beziehungen zur Islamischen Republik Iran in politischer, ethnisch-demographischer und religiöser Hinsicht heikel sind. Auch in Armenien und Georgien wächst die Besorgnis, dass die diplomatische Regelung des iranischen Nuklearkonflikts hinter militärischen Optionen zurücktritt. Vor diesem Hintergrund soll hier ein Blick auf die iranisch-kaukasischen Beziehungen geworfen werden.
MP calls on Iranian refugees to take files to Iraqi House of Representatives
SULAIMANIYA, April 19 (AKnews) – Iranian refugees in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region can take their issues to the committee of human rights at the Iraqi House of Representatives so as to be followed up, said a committee member.
The committee will insert the demands in its agenda and will propose it to the House, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Kurdistan parliament and government, said MP Ashwaq Jaf.
There are hundreds of Iranian refugees, most of them Kurds, who have been living in Kurdistan for more than 10 years. Despite this, they have not been issued citizenship and have been deprived of many rights enjoyed by fellow Iranians in other countries.
Fuad Abbasi, a 30-year-old Iranian Kurdish refugee in the Kurdistan Region, said so far neither the UN nor the Kurdish government has responded to demands for citizenship.
Abbasi, who has been living in the region as a political refugee since 2001, accused the UN “as the major party responsible” for refugees of “playing with our destiny every year”.
He called on the UN and the Kurdistan government to “make our destiny clear because in any democratic country… refugees are granted citizenship after five years and enjoy the full rights as the rest of the citizens in that country”.
Abbasi also demanded the government not to treat the refugees as “fuel of the tensions between Baghdad, Erbil and the UN”.
He complained that some of the refugees suffer from serious health conditions and need to be treated abroad but since they are banned in Iran and they do not have an Iraqi passport they have to suffer the pain for the rest of their lives.
“Every day we should dig a grave for our beloved ones,” he said.
Last year AKnews conducted a report in Soran city, Erbil province. In this city alone it was reported that there were more than 450 Iranian women who married Iraqi Kurdish men, but most of them after 20 years of marital life were not naturalized as Iraqi citizens.
By Idris Abu-Bakir
Irak, Iran: “Camp New Iraq (formerly Camp Ashraf) residents and the determination of their refugee status claims”
Quelle: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Irak, Iran: “Camp New Iraq (formerly Camp Ashraf) residents and the determination of their refugee status claims”
Aktualisierte Fassung kurzer Anmerkungen zu BewohnerInnen des Camps New Iraq und der Überprüfung ihres Anspruchs auf Flüchtlingseigenschaft [ID 211398]
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Irak: “Report on Joint Finnish-Swiss Fact-Finding Mission to Amman and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Area, May 10-22, 2011″
Quelle: Finnish Immigration Service
Irak: “Report on Joint Finnish-Swiss Fact-Finding Mission to Amman and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Area, May 10-22, 2011″ , Autor: Finnish Immigration Service & Federal Office for Migration (Switzerland)
Bericht über eine Fact-Finding-Mission in die Autonome Region Kurdistan (Sicherheitslage, Politik, Wirtschaft, Exekutive, Menschenrechte, Frauen & Kinder, Minderheiten, RückkehrerInnen, ausländische Flüchtlinge, Gesundheitsversorgung, IrakerInnen in Jordanien & Syrien) [ID 210354]
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پناه جویان وپناهندگان در کردستان عراق ازامنیت معیشت وحقوق انسانی واجتماعی برخوردار نیستند
No to Deportation to Iran!
بسیاری ازپناهجویان که به کردستان عراق روی می آورند اغلب کردستان را به عنوان گذرگاهی برای رسیدن به کشوری امن انتخاب می کنند .اما اکثر این پناهجویان در کردستان عراق ساکن میشوند و از طریق نمایدندگی یوان درسلیمانیه و اربیل مصاحبه و کارت پناهندگی دریافت میکنن.
پناهجویانی که درکردستان عراق ساکن هستنداز هیچ امکانات مادی و معنوی از طرف حکومت اقلیم کردستان برخوردار نیستند ونمایندگی یو ان در کردستان به وضعیت موجود رسیدگی نمی کند و نکرده است و در شرایط سخت ودشواری به سر میبرند .
این درحالی است که به دلیل هم مرز بودن وروابط نزدیک حکومت اقلیم کردستان وحکومت مرکزی عراق با حکومت اسلامی ایران امنیت صدها فعال سیاسی که به کردستان پناه آورده اند در خطر است .وبارها شاهد زندانی کردن و شکنجه و آزار اذیت و دیپورت پناهجویان ایرانی بودیم .وطبق گذارش ها در اوایل سال 2011 بیش از 45 نفر از پناهجویان ایرانی که بخشا فعال سیاسی بودن بدون محاکمه از طرف حکومت اقلیم کردستان به ایران دیپورت شدند.
درفصل زمستان نمایندگی یوان درکردستان به دلیل سرد بودن و گران بودن سوخت که قیمت هر بشکه نفت سفید به110 دلار میرسد به پناهجویان وپناهندگان تنها یک بشکه نفت سفید می دهند .که به دلیل اطلاع رسانی نکردن لازم بسیاری از آنها موفق به دریافت نفت نمیشوند .
درپایان سال 2011نمایندگی یو ان شهراربیل به همه پناهجویان وپناهندگان نفت سفید دادند اما در شهر سلیمانیه اعلام شده که فقط خانواده پناهندگانی که وضعیت نامناسب معیشتی دارند می توانند نفت دریافت کنند.
این اولین باری نیست که نمایندگی یوان درکردستان عراق دست به چنین کاری میزند وهمین اندک حقوق پناهنده و پناهجویان رابرای پرکردن جیبهایشان پایمال میکنند .
لازم به ذکر است که در کردستان عراق پناهنده و پناهجو از لحاظ امنیت معیشت وحقوق انسانی واجتماعی هیچ فرقی باهم دیگر ندارند این در حالی است که باید سازمان یو ان و حکومت اقلیم کردستان تا زمانی که پروسه برسی پرونده پناهجو به پایان می رسد امکانات زندگی از جمله امنیت، مسکن و تغذیه و دارو فراهم کندوزمانی به عنوان پناهنده پذیرفته میشود باید ازحقوق شهروندی وامنیت برخوردار باشد.که هیچ پناهنده یا پناهجویی از این حق برخوردار نیستند وتنها فرقی که بین پناهجو و پناهنده در کردستان عراق مشاهده میشود تغییردادن کلمه پناهجو به پناهنده روی کارت پناهندگی است و دلیل آن این بی توجهی نمایندگی یو ان است که نمیتواند به امور پناهندگی در کردستان عراق رسیدگی کندوباید تمامی پناهجویان را به کشوری امن منتقل کنند.
France24:The noose tightens around Iranian refugees at Camp Ashraf
The Iraqi government has announced that it plans to close Camp Ashraf, home to more than 3,000 Iranian dissidents by the end of the year. But the decision that has put the international community in a difficult position.
During his visit to the US this week, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has a number of issues on the agenda, primarily the December 31, 2011, withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq. But at Camp Ashraf – home to more than 3,000 Iranian dissidents in Iraq – all eyes are set on whether Maliki’s visit could bring a resolution to a looming crisis over the future of the refugee camp.
December 31 also happens to be the deadline set by Maliki’s government to dismantle the camp, which is situated in Iraq’s Diyala province about 60 kilometers north of Baghdad.
A sprawling camp that emerged in the mid-1980s, Camp Ashraf is a base of the People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI), a resistance group opposed to the Iranian theocratic regime and reviled in Tehran. Under former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the group – which is also called the Mujahideen Khalq – mounted attacks against the Iranian government
Following the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the camp was disarmed and secured by US troops until 2009, when the US turned the camp over to the Iraqi government. Read the rest of this entry
EU-Abgeordneter setzt sich für iranische Dissidenten im Irak ein
Brüssel - Der EU-Abgeordnete Struan Stevenson hat die Europäische Union am Mittwoch aufgefordert, die Schließung eines Lagers iranischer Dissidenten im Irak zu verhindern. Stevenson ist im EU-Parlament Vorsitzender des Ausschusses für Verbindungen zum Irak. Der irakische Ministerpräsident Nuri al-Maliki will Camp Ashraf zum Jahresende schließen. Dort halten sich etwa 3.400 Angehörige des Iranischen Widerstandsrats auf, die zu Zeiten Saddam Husseins bewaffnete Vorstöße gegen den Iran unternahmen. Nach Angaben von EU-Vertretern will ein Drittel der Lagerbewohner eine Amnestie des Irans zur Rückkehr nutzen. Die übrigen könnten in andere Länder.
Bevorstehende Schließung von Camp Ashraf weckt Befürchtungen um Bewohner
Britische Parlamentarier haben die britische Regierung, die Europäische Union und die Vereinigten Staaten dringend zur Einbringung einer Resolution im UN-Sicherheitsrat aufgefordert mit dem Ziel, Blauhelm-Soldaten der Vereinten Nationen im Camp Ashraf im Irak einzusetzen, um ein Massaker beim Abzug der US-Truppen gegen Ende dieses Jahres zu verhindern, so UPI am 26. Oktober 2011. Amnesty International hat zum selben Thema die irakische Regierung, die das Lager demnächst auflösen will, aufgefordert, die Frist zu verlängern. Amnesty International zeigt sich betroffen, dass mit der geplanten Schließung des Lagers im Dezember 2011 den 3.250 iranischen Langzeitbewohnern Menschenrechtsverletzungen drohen könnten. Das Lager sei bereits mehrfach von irakischen Sicherheitskräften angegriffen worden, wobei es Dutzende von Toten und Verletzten gegeben habe. Allein am 8. April dieses Jahres seien 36 Lagerinsassen das Opfer exzessiver Gewaltanwendung geworden. Ende Juli 2009 habe es bereits neun Tote gegeben. Die Kontrolle über das Lager ist im Juni 2009 auf die irakische Regierung übergegangen, die ihren Druck seitdem kontinuierlich verstärkt. Viele der Lagerinsassen sind Mitglieder der Volksmudjahedin des Iran. Die Ankündigung des irakischen Präsidenten Talabani, das Lager Ende dieses Jahres zu schließen, ist eine politische Geste gegenüber dem Iran. Residenten des Lagers werfen der irakischen Regierung vor, eine friedliche Lösung für das Camp Ashraf zu behindern und sich die Option offenzuhalten, gegen Ende des Jahres Umsiedlungen der Bewohner so vorzunehmen, dass sie in der Gefahr stehen, an den neuen Wohnorten getötet zu werden oder im Lager selbst Opfer neuer Attacken zu werden.
Iraq signs ‘death warrant’ on Iran exiles: European Parliament
- Iraq has served a virtual “death warrant” on some 3,400 Iranian dissidents exiled in a camp north of Baghdad, the head of the European parliament’s delegation for relations with Iraq said Friday.
MEP Struan Stevenson said the Iraqi embassy in Brussels had sent a letter to the European parliament tantamount “to a virtual declaration of war on the UN and international community and a death warrant” for residents of the Ashraf camp. Read the rest of this entry
Iraq: Need to ensure the protection of the residents of Camp Ashraf
Geneva, 11 November 2011. The OMCT calls on the authorities of Iraq to ensure the full respect for the rights of the residents of Camp Ashraf located in Iraq and on the international community to step up its efforts to prevent serious human rights violations and the forcible return of its residents to Iran in violation of the principle of non-refoulement.
Empfehlung: Colour of Paradise (Die Farbe Gottes) Rang-e Choda
Verleih: Advanced Film
Regie und Drehbuch: Majid Majidi
Darsteller/innen: Hossein Mahjoob, Salameh Feyzi, Mohsen Ramezani, Behzad Rafeiey, Morteza Fatemi u. a.
Produktion: Varahonar Film Co.
Kamera: Mohammad Davoodi
Laufzeit: 88 min
EU benennt Vermittler für Camp Ashraf
Die EU hat laut Reuters den ehemaligen belgischen EU-Botschafter Jean De Ruyt beauftragt, sich in Zusammenarbeit mit den Vereinten Nationen, der irakischen Regierung und anderen für eine Lösung der Krise in Camp Ashraf einzusetzen. Das rund 65 Kilometer von Bagdad entfernte Lager ist die Basis der iranischen Volksmudjahedin (PMOI), die einst auf der Seite Saddam Husseins gegen den Iran kämpften. Von den USA wird die Organisation als terroristische Vereinigung angesehen, die EU strich sie 2009 von ihrer Terrorliste. Seit dem Sturz Saddam Husseins sind die rund 3000 Einwohner des Lagers von Menschenrechtsverletzungen bedroht. Das Lager wurde bereits Schauplatz blutiger Zusammenstöße zwischen irakischen Sicherheitskräften und Bewohnern, mehr als 30 Bewohner wurden dabei getötet. Struan Strevenson, Leiter der Irak-Delegation des europäischen Parlaments, bezeichnete die Ernennung De Ruyts als Vermittler als einen Durchbruch, der „eine Srebrenica-artige Katastrophe“ in Camp Ashraf verhindern könne. Nach Stevensons Angaben sollen die Einwohner des Lagers UN-Flüchtlingsstatus bekommen und in EU-Staaten und anderen Drittstaaten aufgenommen werden, fügte jedoch hinzu, das dieser Prozess noch länger andauern könne.
Religious Allegiances among Pro-Iranian Special Groups in Iraq
Author: Reidar Visser
Pro-Iranian “Special Groups” are once more the focus of attention in Iraq. As the United States prepares to withdraw its forces from Iraq at the end of 2011, the U.S. military has highlighted increasing paramilitary activity by the Special Groups, supported with weapons and explosives from Iran, as a potential threat to political stability in the years ahead. Yet it is not accurate to suggest that all Special Groups share the same relationship with the regime in Tehran.
This article explores the religious allegiances of pro-Iranian Special Groups in Iraq. The links between militant groups and religious authorities are investigated for four such groups: Kataib Hizb Allah, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, the Promised Day Brigades and the Badr Organization. It is concluded that Kataib Hizb Allah and Asaib Ahl al-Haq are most closely integrated into the tradition of the Iranian revolution, but also that an exclusive focus on the Special Groups and their ties to the Iranian clergy involves missing the wood for the trees. With signs of increasingly close ties between the Da`wa Party of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the Iranian clergy, the study of the activities of the Special Groups in isolation from the broader Iranian strategy in Iraq is somewhat myopic.
Iran: Wikileaks Dokumente hier online
Ab sofort befinden sich hier alle bisher veröffentlichten Wikileaks Iran-Dokumente online. Von 2006 bis zum Jahre 2010.
Allerdings möchten wir darauf hinweisen, wir verzichten bei der Veröffentlichung auf die Nennung der Informanden, deren Schutz wichtiger ist, als deren Veröffentlichung.
September 3, 2011: Global Demonstrations in Defense of People in Iraqi Kurdistan and against the Atrocities of the Islamic Republic of Iran & the Turkish Government!
An entire family of seven was killed in attacks by the Turkish and Islamic Republic regimes on civilians in Iraqi Kurdistan.
What is happening?
For the past several weeks, people in Iraqi Kurdistan have been the targets of military operations by both the Islamic Republic of Iran and by the Turkish military.
The Turkish government and the Islamic Republic claim that the reason they are launching air and ground assaults in this region is to defend against attacks by armed militants. But in fact, these governments are attacking villages, farms, livestock, and civilian vehicles. They are targeting the people in Iraqi Kurdistan, and using the armed militants as an excuse to justify their atrocities.
Berlin/Essen/Frankfurt: Demonstration vor türkischen Einrichtungen – Freitag, 26. August · 15:00 – 16:30
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مرزهای مشترک کشورهای ایران، عراق و ترکیه که عمدتا محل سکونت شهروندان کرد در این کشورها هستند در طول یک ماه گذشته بر اثر حمله نیروهای نظامی ارتش ترکیه و سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی دست خوش یک فاجعه بزرگ انسانی شده اند. صدها خانواده مجبور به ترک محل زندگی خود شده و نزدیک به بیش از 10 شهروند عادی که در میان آنها چند کودک خردسال و یک زن وجود دارند بر اثر حملات نظامی در مناطق غیر نظامی کشته شده اند.جهت محکوم نمودن این حملات و مطلع کردن جامعه جهانی و افکار عمومی کشورهای اروپایی از فاجعه انسانی در حال وقوع در مناطق کردستان، ما جمعی از فعالان ساکن شهرهای مختلف آلمان، روز جمعه، 26 آگوست، ساعت 3 بعداز ظهر به وقت اروپای مرکزی، با گردهمایی مقابل سفارت کشور ترکیه، این جنایت ضد بشری را محکوم خواهیم کرد.
همچنین از فعالان سایر کشورهای سراسر جهان نیز دعوت می کنیم تا با برگزاری تجمعات مشابه در شهرهای محل سکونت خود، در اعتراض به این فاجعه انسانی با ما هم صدا شوند. کمیته مشترک ضد سرکوب کردستان آدرس محل برگزاری هر شهر به شرح زیر است و اطلاعات تکمیلی متعاقبا اعلام خواهند شد. |
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The Latest from Iran (16 August): An Election Revelation?
1448 GMT: James Miller is back. Hopefully, he and his coffee will bring the “live” back to the “liveblog.” Luckily, Scott Lucas, despite still being on vacation, has sent a few updates to kick things off:
On the Telly. A poll in 31 provincal centres points to all the contradictions of watching satellite TV, which is formally illegal in Iran.
Viewing is up from 34% to 42% since last year, with those “very interested” rising from 28% to 34% and those with “no interest” falling from 40% to 35%.
Iran News Round Up (August 15)
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Deutscher Bundestag: Kleine Anfrage- Die aktuelle Situation im Lager Ashraf (Irak) / Fraktion DIE LINKE
Kleine Anfrage der Abgeordneten Thomas Nord, Jan van Aken, Christine Buchholz, Wolfgang Gehrcke, Andrej Hunko, Niema Movassat, Alexander Ulrich, Kathrin Vogler und der Fraktion DIE LINKE. Die aktuelle Situation im Lager Ashraf (Irak)
Lutherstadt Wittenberg: Kurden im Nahen Osten – Ein Volk kämpft für seine Rechte, 27. September 2011, 17.30 Uhr
Die Samstagsmütter der kurdischen Metropole Diyarbakir in der Türkei erinnern an ihre verschwundenen Söhne, Foto: Ahmet ÜnOpen Letter to UNHCR in Iraq, Regarding the Iranian Kurds at al-Waleed Camp
PHOTO: Displacement within Displacement: Life for Iranian Refugees, al-Waleed Camp, Iraq
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 3. Every one has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Here lived a family. We too, like the UN, believe that human beings do not need much to live, and these things are every human being’s right: freedom, equality, security… if there is a difference, it is that we fight to assert our fundamental rights, and the UN has deliberately and actively ignored and deprived us of them for over 30 years. Here lived a family… they were displaced again.
Al Qaeda’s Safe Haven In Iran: AEI Critical Threats Quick Take by Maseh Zarif
The Treasury Department yesterday identified six al Qaeda members as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.[1] These six terrorist operatives form anetwork that funnels money and personnel from the Gulf to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan via Iran. The head of the network, Syrian-born Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil, operates from inside Iran with the full knowledge of the Iranian regime.
Al Qaeda’s presence in Iran and its operatives’ links to the Iranian government and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were known to exist prior to this designation. In the 1990s, al Qaeda associates negotiated an agreement between Osama bin Laden and the Iranian government that allowed the transit of al Qaeda operatives through Iran into Afghanistan.[2] According to Treasury, Khalil, who represents al Qaeda in Iran, has run the current network since 2005 “under an agreement between al-Qaida and the Iranian government.”[3] The network is “the core pipeline” for moving money and personnel from the Middle East into South Asia.[4]
Two Years Ago: a look back at the July 25, 2009 Global Day of Action
July 25th, 2009 marked the first Global Day of Action, during which tens of thousands of people across a hundred cities came together in solidarity with the people of Iran. In the aftermath of a brutal government crackdown following the disputed election, activists united to call on the Islamic Republic of Iran to halt state-sponsored violence, release all prisoners of conscience, and respect the inherent rights of the Iranian people.
The day received support from hundreds of prominent activists, academics, and artists, including Nobel Laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jody Williams, and Shirin Ebadi. Click here to watch Desmond Tutu‘s video message and expression of support for the day and for the people of Iran. One of the day’s most notable promotional videos, “Be a Hero,” can be seen here. Among the day’s highlights was the premiere of U2′s new video, to coincide with the global day, before 80,000 people in Dublin’s Croke Park.
This first global day of support for the Iranian people had immense momentum behind it. Emotions ran high as images of students being chased by Basiji remained fresh in the world’s consciousness.
Now, only two short years after the largest show of solidarity with the Iranian people, we must continue forward with the same passion demonstrated by thousands of concerned citizens not so long ago.
Click here to see a slideshow revisiting some of the day’s amazing events!
Iranische Armee greift kurdische Dörfer anGfbV: Drei Tote und hunderte Flüchtlinge in Irakisch-Kurdistan durch iranischen Artilleriebeschuss
Mindestens drei Zivilisten sind durch Artilleriebeschuss der iranischen Armee in den vergangenen zwei Wochen in Irakisch-Kurdistan getötet worden. Elf wurden verletzt. Nach Informationen des Büros der Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (GfbV) in Arbil, der Hauptstadt des autonomen Bundesstaates Irakisch-Kurdistan, mussten außerdem hunderte Familien die Flucht ergreifen.
„Die Angriffe der iranischen Armee auf die Zivilbevölkerung von Irakisch-Kurdistan stellen eine gefährliche Aggression gegen das freie und friedliche Kurdistan dar und sind mit der Türkei offenbar gut koordiniert worden“, sagte Dr. Mahmud Othman, langjähriges Führungsmitglied der Kurdischen Nationalbewegung und Mitglied des irakischen Nationalparlaments, in einem Telefonat mit der GfbV, „denn der türkische Außenminister, Ahmet Davuto?lu, führte am 11. Juli Gespräche im Iran und in der vergangenen Nacht haben die iranische und die türkische Luftwaffe nahezu zeitgleich einige Dörfer im Distrikt Sidkan im Dreiländereck Iran-Irak-Türkei angegriffen.“ Dort gibt es insgesamt 254 Siedlungen mit rund 10.000 Einwohnern.
Iranische Artillerie hatte bereits am frühen Montagmorgen die sechs Dörfer Sured, Qirnaqan, Pisht Ashan, Sinemok, Kaskan, Ashqulke sowie die Sommeralmen von Singeser unter Beschuss genommen. Am Abend feuerten iranische Streitkräfte gegen 20 Uhr Granaten auf die fünf Siedlungen Suregul, Maredo, Beste, Eske Sere und Eske Xware.
Begründet werden Angriffe stets mit der Bekämpfung kurdischer Rebellengruppen, die sich in der Grenzregion verstecken. „Tatsächlich wollen sich jedoch weder der Iran noch die Türkei damit abfinden, dass Kurden in ihrer direkten Nachbarschaft, erfolgreich eine eigne Verwaltung aufgebaut haben“, sagte Othman. Der Iran und die Türkei befürchteten, dass Kurden in den beiden Ländern dem Beispiel von Irakisch-Kurdistan folgen und auch dort Autonomie und Selbstverwaltung fordern. Der gewählte Präsident von Irakisch-Kurdistan, Masud Barzani, hat bereits mehrfach an die iranische Regierung appelliert, die Probleme friedlich zu lösen.
Für Nachfragen steht der Präsident der GfbV International, Tilman Zülch, gern zur Verfügung unter T. 0151 153 09 888.
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Eye on Iran – Iran’s Acceleration of Its Nuclear Program Angers the West
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Guardian: ”Western capitals have reacted angrily to an announcement by Iran that it is installing more advanced centrifuges in a uranium enrichment plant with the aim of accelerating its nuclear programme. ‘The installation of new centrifuges with better quality and speed is ongoing,’ Ramin Mehmanparast, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, told reporters at his weekly press briefing. ‘We have announced it and the agency [the International Atomic Energy Agency] has full supervision of them. They are fully aware that Iran’s peaceful nuclear activity continues to progress. This is another confirmation of the Islamic republic’s successful strides in its nuclear activities.’ However, France said Iran’s move – which Tehran claims could triple the rate at which it enriches uranium – confirmed suspicions that the Iranian nuclear programme had ‘no credible civilian application’. The French foreign ministry said: “Iran has just given in to another provocation by announcing the imminent installation of next generation centrifuges. This is a new violation of six security council resolutions and 10 resolutions by the council of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA].’ The British Foreign Office said the announcement ‘further undermines Iran’s claim that its nuclear programme is designed for purely peaceful purposes, and demonstrates the urgency of increasing pressure on Iran … Iran must understand that we will not be distracted by events in the region and it should not doubt our resolve.’” http://t.uani.com/oaBwfm
Radio Zamaneh Interview with Iranian Kurdish Refugees in al-Waleed Camp, Iraq | به زندگی در چادر پایان میدهیم [ENG | FA]
Radio Zamaneh Interview with Iranian Kurdish Refugees in al-Waleed Camp, Iraq | به زندگی در چادر پایان میدهیم [ENG | FA]
by Mohsen Kakarash
PHOTO: Iranian Women: “Rescue Our Children from Ignorance!”- Life for Iranian Refugees, al-Waleed Camp, Iraq
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 5. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Yet for the past 30 years people of al-Waleed have been subject to cruelty, inhumane and extremely degrading treatment by those who decorate their walls with these meaningless sentences. People in al-Waleed are deprived of their right to be heard by the outside world, the humane world.
In this photo, women of al-Waleed are on strike, demanding to be treated as human beings. The targets are the cars that occasionally drive by. Banners read “In the name of humanity…,” “Rescue our children from ignorance…,” “Where is justice?” – a questions which, in a humane world, would have gotten an appropriate answer 30 years ago. In the world of UNHCR, it has taken 30 years NOT to answer to any questions and NOT to engage in any serious action to solve ANYTHING!
Read more about the situation of Iranian Kurdish refugees at al-Waleed camp, Iraq.
Take action for the refugees struggling for their right to survive, al-Waleed camp, Iraq:
Write, call and fax key decisionmakers and demand that the rights of the Iranian Kurds in al-Waleed Camp be upheld. A sample letter that you can modify and send appears below, along with the email addresses for the relevant decisionmakers.
SAMPLE LETTER
To the Foreign Minister/Secretary of State,
I am writing to you with regard to the intolerable situation of the Iranian Kurd refugees in al-Waleed Camp, Iraq.
The people living in this camp have suffered an entire lifetime of displacement, violence, and rightslessness, having fled Iran in the 1980s, and having survived unspeakable circumstances in Iraq over the course of the past two decades
Their current situation – living in tents in a burning desert at the Iraq-Syria border, without access to education or work or even sufficient food, with complete lack of security – is at root due to the genocidal crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran. UNHCR also bears its full share of responsibility for failing to uphold even the most basic of rights for the camp’s Iranian Kurd residents. And the United States and the coalition governments also must own their share of responsibility for their situation: theirs are among the millions of lives that have been shattered as a direct result of the most recent war of choice in Iraq.
I therefore urgently request that your government take the lead in upholding the fundamental rights of these refugees from Iran. These refugees have a fundamental human right to asylum and protection. I ask your government to coordinate the immediate resettlement of the Iranian Kurds from al-Waleed Camp in Iraq to a safe third country.
Sincerely,
[your name]
UN, human rights addresss:
inspector@unhcr.org, maja.kocijancic@ec.europa.eu, inquiries@un.org, sg@un.org, npillay@ohchr.org, urgent-action@ohchr.org,iar@amnesty.org.uk, hrwdc@hrw.org, fwestphal@icrc.org, dkrimitsas@icrc.org
Foreign ministries and selected other government responsibles:
jerzy.buzek@europarl.europa.eu, michael.spindelegger@bmeia.gv.at, kab.bz@diplobel.fed.be, info@mvp.gov.ba, iprd@mfa.government.bg,imprensa@itamaraty.gov.br, imprensa@planalto.gov.br, pm@pm.gc.ca, ministar@mvpei.hr, minforeign1@mfa.gov.cy, podatelna@mzv.cz,udenrigsministeren@um.dk, vminfo@vm.ee, umi@formin.fi, bernard.kouchner@diplomatie.gouv.fr, inform@mfa.gov.ge, guido.westerwelle@auswaertiges-amt.de, gpapandreou@parliament.gr, titkarsag.konz@kum.hu, external@utn.stjr.is, dcpf@mea.gov.in, minister@dfa.ie,gabinetto@cert.esteri.it, segreteria.frattini@esteri.it, mfa.cha@mfa.gov.lv, tonio.borg@gov.mt, secdep@mfa.md, post@mfa.no,DNZPC.Sekretariat@msz.gov.pl, ministro@mne.gov.pt, senec@mne.gov.pt, pm@pm.gov.pt, msp@mfa.rs, ministry@mid.ru,miguel.moratinos@maec.es, beatriz.lorenzo@maec.es, registrator@foreign.ministry.se, info@eda.admin.ch, info@mfa.gov.tr,haguew@parliament.uk, stewartkb@state.gov
Media (some may bounce):
evening@cbsnews.com, earlyshow@cbs.com, 60m@cbsnews.com, 48hours@cbsnews.com, ftn@cbsnews.com, dateline@nbcuni.com,hardball@msnbc.com, joe@msnbc.com, nightly@nbc.com, today@nbc.com, newshour@pbs.org, ombudsman@npr.org, city@thestar.ca,letters@latimes.com, letters@nytimes.com, Bruce.Wallace@latimes.com, Mark.McGonigle@latimes.com, news-tips@nytimes.com,foreign@nytimes.com, nytnews@nytimes.com, editor@usatoday.com, wsj.ltrs@wsj.com, letters@washpost.com,ombudsman@washpost.com, letters@newsweek.com, letters@time.com, letters@usnews.com, info@ap.org, redaktion@faz.de,redactie@volkskrant.nl, ole.erik.almlid@aftenposten.no, bjorn.hedensjo@dn.se, redaktion@tages-anzeiger.ch, foreign.news@thetimes.co.uk,simon.jeffery@guardian.co.uk, redazione.tg5@mediaset.it, redazione.studioapertorm@mediaset.it, skytg24.redazione@skytv.it,segreteria_roma@repubblica.it, roma@lastampa.it, esteri@liberazione.it, segreteria@unita.it, lorenzocairoli@hotmail.com,redazione@ilmanifesto.it, nadiapizzuti@gmail.com, nadia.pizzuti@ansa.it
This action is supported by The Committee to Support the People of al-W
PHOTO: Where the World Is on Fire – Life for Iranian Refugees, al-Waleed Camp, Iraq
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 17. Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
In the heat of al-Waleed camp, where in the summer midday everything reaches burning temperatures, tents catch fire. This photo shows a group of men trying to salvage what is salvageable from their “property” after yet another one of nature’s shows of animosity toward the displaced everywhere, and of course toward the displaced of Al-Waleed.
What would your thoughts be if you were there searching through empty Coca-Cola cans and half-charred pillows? Wouldn’t you trade your right to own “property” and all you own — or owned before the fire — for your right to happiness, laughter, song and dance, playgrounds and parks and schools and hospitals and security and …a stomach full of good food?
Abandoned to the Burning Sands: Surviving Iranian Refugees in al-Waleed Camp, Iraq, Call Out from the Desert
(the first in a series regarding the situation of Iranian refugees and their children surviving in the desert in Iraq near the Syrian border, abandoned for a lifetime by the UNHCR and responsible governments).
During the long years of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), in an effort to extinguish all resistance to its authority, the Islamic Republic of Iran fought not only against Iraq, but against Iranian people in a war that Khomeini called the Sacred Defense. The rest of the world should not recognize that “Sacred Defense” as anything other than planned genocide of the people in Kurdistan, Iran, who have never recognized the Islamic Republic as the legitimate government of Iran. It was a “God-sent” tool the regime used to establish a barbaric rule over the freedom-loving and peaceful people of Iran.
Subjected to the strife of daily shellings and attacks during these years, thousands of Iranian Kurds were forced to abandon their homes and livelihoods and flee into Iraq to seek refuge. These asylum-seekers were relocated by the Iraqi government to the al-Tash Camp in the desert in al-Ramadi City, the center of al-Anbar Province, Iraq.
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