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	Iranian Cities: Kurdistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kurdistan has vast forests and refuges, where many animals and birds live, safely from the harms of the human beings: the leopard, ram, wild goat, hyena, jackal, wolf, fox, sable, wesel and such birds as the partridge, wild duck, stork, parrot, eagle.
		Although the province of Kurdistan has archeological traces which go back to thousands of years BC when the Aryan Kurds first settled in these parts, Sanandaj itself is a rather new city and was built less than 200 years ago.
		Kurdistan province succumbed to the Moslem Army circa 642 A.D. and most of the inhabitants accepted Islam which is the predominant religion of the area, today.
	www.iranchamber.com /cities/kurdistan/kurdistan.php (860 words)

	KEO - POLITICS
		Banisadr, the former Iranian president in exile in France, the Reza II the son of Shah (last Iranian king) and MKO and the major Iranian opposition parties abroad banned the election.
		The Iranian media portrayed the call as "the success of Iranian regime in turning [Kurdish] opposition into friends." Earlier, the main worry of Kurdish parties in Iran was that PKK was becoming the major player in Iranian Kurdistan.
		The Iranian oppressive psych only bows to power and pressure and the foundations of the historic union of Kurds and Persians were set on the wrong track from the beginning as depicted in the stones in Kurdistan where the Medes rulers are among the enemies of thePersian ruler going to face execution.
	www.kurdistanica.com /english/politics/analysis/analysis-006.html (2006 words)

	Iranian Kurdistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to Encyclopaedia of Islam, the Safavid family hailed from Iranian Kurdistan, and later moved to Azarbaijan.
		Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896.
		Iranian authorities confirmed that Qaderi, "who was on the run and wanted by the judiciary", was shot and killed while allegedly evading arrest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iranian_Kurdistan (2466 words)

	Komala and Kurdistan
		The non-Kurd Iranians have been fighting IRI for decades now, and this is not right for people who have the strong issue of racism in Turkey, to presume their case to be the same as the Iranian situation, and to create flames between non-Kurd and Kurdish parts of the Iranian pro-democracy movement.
		Among Iranian Kurdish groups, I have seen a few individuals in some groups, who may call the Fars or Persians by racist remarks, equating all non-Kurd Iranians with mollahs, but these people are a very tiny minority among the Kurdish groups.
		Iran and Iranians are very modern, and we had a constitutional revolution calling for civil law and modern society, with a system based on Constitutional Law, over one hundred years ago.
	www.ghandchi.com /327-KomalaEng.htm (2897 words)

	The Kurdish novel in Iranian Kurdistan International Journal of Kurdish Studies - Find Articles
		At the time of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad in 1946, Kurdish authorities sent a number of youths to the former Soviet Union to be educated.
		Through its characters it draws a portrait of the undeveloped socio-economic situation of Iranian Kurdistan during this period, its themes reveal the tribal structure of Kurdish society and awakening national consciousness.
		The significance of these Iranian Kurdish refugees in the development of the Kurdish novel is nowhere better evidenced than in the mere fact that the first such literary work was not published in Iranian Kurdistan until 1990.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0SBL/is_1-2_19/ai_n15954361 (852 words)

	Hassan Zirak - Kurdish Music - Kurdistan And Iranian Songs Singers & Musicians - Hasan Songs
		In 1953, he left for Iraqi Kurdistan and recorded a great number of songs in Kurdish for the Kurdish section of the Baghdad broadcasting station.
		In 1957, when he returned to Iranian Kurdistan for cooperation with music band of the Kurdish radio station in Kermanshah, where he recorded many Kurdish songs.
		Hassan Zirek died from cancer at age 51 in June 26, 1972 and was buried in his native city Bukan, on Nalishkêne mountain one of the most famous mountains of the region which lies close to the city.
	www.kurdonline.com /music/hassan_zirak.php (170 words)

	Autonomy of Iranian Kurdistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Kurdistan autonomous region's administration shall correspond with the capital, with other regions, as well as with the depa rtments attached to the Central Government that are in the autonomous region, in Farsi.
		All non-Kurdish inhabitants in autonomous Kurdistan are free to practice their own culture and have the right to receive education in their own language.
		In the same m anner, the Central Government and its executive organs are prohibited from interfering in the affairs recognized to fall within the special authority of the organs of autonomy to carry out their duties.
	www.iran-e-azad.org /english/kurd.html (990 words)

	General commercial shutdown in Iranian Kurdistan
		His death was the direct result of the Iranian regime's security forces firing live rounds at a number of Kurdish youth.
		In the absence of any large scale solidarity from Kurds in other countries and Iranian workers outside Kurdistan, and given the shortcomings of the current Kurdish leadership, the general commercial shutdown was all that the masses could achieve at this point.
		The Iranian workers must intervene to protect their Kurdish brothers and sisters against their vicious and barbaric enemy.
	www.marxist.com /shutdown-iran-kurdistan090805.htm (754 words)

	Iranian Refugees At-Risk
		Many of them live under the protection and support of the Iranian political organizations in their camps, as the local Iraqi Kurdish administration is unable to provide them security, and material assistance from international aid organizations is not available to all refugees.
		Iranian Kurdish sources report that between 1991 and 1996, at least 218 Iranian Kurds were killed or injured in these attacks.53 (Also see page 6).
		Iranian agents were also said to have planted bomb traps and dynamite in refugees' living quarters.
	www.irainc.org /text/nletter/su97fa97/su97fa97.html (5416 words)

	The Iranian: News & Views
		TEHRAN, Feb 24 (AFP) - Three people were killed on Monday during protests in Sanandaj, the main city in Iranian Kurdistan, a newspaper said Wednesday, as a Kurdish MP criticized the handling of the demonstrations.
		Iranian Kurdistan has been the scene of violent demonstrations in recent days calling for Turkey to release Turkish Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.
		The Iranian newspaper Jahan-e-Eslam, which is close to the government, reported Sunday that two youths had been killed in the violence.
	www.iranian.com /News/Feb99/kurd.html (310 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Iraqi Kurdistan, Borzou Daragahi
		It became a mysterious unreachable land that is the stuff legends and myths as much as rocks and streams.
		Apparently a journalist who had crossed the border wrote a story identifying the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as supporting a small Kurdish Islamic militant group with alleged ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda.
		Like many of Iranian cities outside of Tehran, Orumieh is pleasant, inviting and tree-filled.
	www.iranian.com /Travelers/2002/October/Kurdistan/index.html (1340 words)

	Iranian state media control extends to provinces
		Newsdesk, October 5,-- Iranian government efforts to steer public perceptions through media restrictions are not limited to mainstream newspapers in the capital.
		He takes at face value an Iranian ambassador's claim that militants captured in the southeast confessed to working with the United States.
		Recent statements by Iranian Islamic Culture and Guidance Minister Hussein Safar-Harandi suggested that the Iranian government harbors similar fears -- and could exploit them to justify repressive measures against minorities, according to "Kayhan" on September 4.
	www.ekurd.net /mismas/articles/misc2006/10/irankurdistan199.htm (1212 words)

	Asia Times
		Any Iranian involvement in the war with a weakening effect on the invading forces would disrupt their war plans, with the main beneficiary being the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.
		Repeated violation of Iranian airspace by American and British aircraft and/or missiles in their bid to bypass certain Iraqi areas or to catch the Iraqis off guard could be one scenario.
		Similarly, joint or separate efforts on their part to dominate Iraqi Kurdistan and to turn it into an anti-Iranian territory or to disband and disarm its two main groups with friendly ties with Iran, the PUK and the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (DPK), would be another feasible scenario.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EC28Ak04.html (1079 words)

	Text News
		On the eve of an official visit to Kurdistan by President Khatami, a Sanandaj-based Kurdish journalist tells Radio Farda that the Islamic government’s ban on hiring Kurdish managers had divided people and government.
		The elites of the Iranian Kurdish community are immigrating to prosperous northern Iraq, where Kurdish administration has enjoyed relative autonomy since 1991 under the protection of allied forces.
		President Khatami is expected to inaugurate a few development projects, and take part in a meeting of the provincial administrative council, but according to Kurdpour, the trip will only remind the Iranian Kurds of broken promises of participation and prosperity, which Khatami offered in an earlier trip to Kurdistan after he took office in 1996.
	home.cogeco.ca /~kurdistan/17-8-04-kurds-east-go-to-south-kurdistan.htm (413 words)

	Roj Bash ! » a dam full of poision ! get a Cancer for Free. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Acording to the statistics Iranian Kurdistan has the highest rate of cancer in the Iran, it seems everything is helping peopel to get cancer.
		Iranian Kurdistan is one of the poorest parts of the Iran, and the government has not spent much money on making factories, safe roads, saftey for the dam…
		During the 8 years of Iran-Iraq war, Saddam Hosseyn several times used chemical weapons on both Iraqi and Iranian Kurds, Halabcha which is an Iraqi Kurdish city is so close to Iranian Kurdistan, I personally met some victims of Halabhca in Iranian Side of the border.
	northerniraq.info /blog/?p=59 (590 words)

	AEI PANEL LAMBASTS IRAN'S ETHNIC POLICIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chiming in later, Morteza Esfandiari, representative for the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, criticized the Iranian government’s treatment of the Kurdish population.
		Al-Taie, who maintained that Iranian Arabs are descendents of the Elamite civilization, told the audience that his Doctoral degree was not recognized by the Pahlavi regime due to his Arab ethnicity.
		Shahbazi was particularly vocal in his criticism of Iranian opposition groups, which he referred to as the “Persian opposition.” He identified the Iranian government and Persian opposition groups as the main obstacles to ethnic harmony.
	www.niacouncil.org /pressreleases/press302.asp (1124 words)

	Is Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan another Iranian ally in the Iraqi government? (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The most notable example was in July 1996, when the Iranian government sent 3000 Iranian troops deep into PUK territory in northern Iraq to pursue militant Iranian Kurds based there.
		It is also alleged that the reasons behind the West's muted response and lack of assistance to the Kurds after the chemical attack was due to PUK's close relations with the Ayatollah's regime in Iran whom the West viewed as a threat.
		The visits were aimed at co-ordinating Iranian backed anti Saddam forces which comprised of the PUK and the dissident Shiite Iraqi groups based in Iran.
	www.meepas.com.cob-web.org:8888 /talebanipart1.htm (1732 words)

	Kurdistan: between Iran and Iraq, a permeable border - CAUCAZ.COM
		A short stroll through the rows of the bazaar in Mahabad, in the heart of Iranian Kurdistan, is all that is required to pick up Chinese ceramics imported from Iraq, of all places.
		Iranian Kurds are permitted to visit Iraqi Kurdistan twice a year.
		The submerged part of the iceberg, smuggling, is vital to prevent the economic asphyxiation of Iranian Kurdistan.
	www.caucaz.com /home_eng/breve_contenu.php?id=184 (778 words)

	Kurdistan Media News Agency
		Hewler (Erbil) – Kurdistan: The central bank of Iraq is considering licensing several foreign banks to operate within the country, mostly in the safe semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan, Sinan Al Shabibi, the bank's governor, said yesterday.
		Hewler - Kurdistan: The commander of a major faction of Kurdish troops in Iraq says he would welcome the establishment of a permanent American military facility in Kurdistan Region (northern Iraq), where Kurds are the dominant ethnic group.
		Sanandaj – Kurdistan: Kurdish NGO was charged for its campaigns against using drag in Iranian Kurdistan.
	www.kurdistanmedia.org /english (1253 words)

	From Holland to Kurdistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kurdish people are renowned for their marvellous hospitality, which I have enjoyed on many occasions, and as soon as they learn that you enjoy their food, their dances, and can speak even a few words of their language, they treat you as long, lost family.
		"The Yezidi religious and cultural tradition is deeply rooted in Kurdish culture and almost all Yezidi sacred texts are in Kurdish," said Philip Kreyenbroek, head of Iranian studies at the University of Goettingen in Germany and a leading specialist on the Kurds and the Yezidis of Turkey and northern Iraq.
		According to the Kurdistan Committee in Armavir, his sister has now also joined the PKK and is currently fighting with them.
	vladimirkurdistan.blogspot.com (7334 words)

	Iran Ethnic Minorities Seek US Help to Topple the Iranian Regime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mustafa Hejri, General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, argued that the Iranian public is now a hostage to the current regime.
		Abdullah Mohtadi, leader of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, and have subsequently suffered grave injustices at the hands of Khomeni.
		Morteza Esfandiari of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan summed up the message of the panel arguing that regime change in Iran is necessary.
	www.niacouncil.org /pressreleases/press366.asp (737 words)

	Scores of Iranian Kurds Arrested After Demo - Persian Journal Iran news, Latest iran news Iranian newspaper women zan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Around 100 Iranian Kurds were arrested after staging demonstrations to show their solidarity with Iraqi Kurds following the signing of Iraq's new interim constitution, two ethnic Kurdish MPs told AFP.
		According to the MP, unrest was seen in the towns of Mahabad, Boukan and Marivan, with some protestors demanding "democracy in Iran and autonomy for Iranian Kurdistan".
		The paper also said the demonstrators destroyed a statue of a young Iranian killed in the 1980-88 war with Iraq and used by the Islamic regime here as a symbol of devotion and sacrifice to the revolution.
	www.iranian.ws /cgi-bin/iran_news/exec/view.cgi/2/1681 (583 words)

	Kurdistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The ending of '-stan' in the word 'Kurdistan' is an Iranic suffix meaning 'land of', however the traditional Kurdish equivalent for Kudistan has been the word 'Kurdewarî'.
		Kurdistan in the Middle Ages was referred to a collection of semi-independent states called "emirates".
		Amid the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from three northern provinces, Iraqi Kurdistan emerged as an autonomous entity inside Iraq, with its own local government and parliament in 1992.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Kurdistan (1786 words)

	Testimony of Kejal Abdouli before Congressional Human Rights Caucus
		or "why in a foreign country, so far away from Kurdistan, the need to fight the leaders of the Kurdish people?" The answer is simple: for many decades, the Kurds have been fighting to be granted their most fundamental rights and suffering multiple repression and persecution.
		The Iranian regime has repeatedly and openly said that it would do everything possible to physically eliminate all KDPI leaders, wherever they might be, in order to put a final end to the existence of this party.
		Of course part of Iranian behavior is related to western tolerance of it.
	www.kurdistan.org /Washington/kejal.html (1119 words)

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