I have received several angry emails asking about our reaction on the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Governments decision to commemorate Ayatollah Khomeini in the Qazi Muhammed Conference Centre in Erbil for the second year in a row.
It is important to underline that the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government and the two ruling political parties in Iraqi Kurdistan [...]
On Sunday Iraqis voted in the country’s parliamentary election and according to early reports no party, or blocs of parties, managed to win enough votes to be able to form a single-majority government.
The election process has been hailed as relatively democratic, despite evidence of fraud (tens of thousands of Kurds was according to reports denied [...]
Read: Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died, official media reported on Sunday. He was 87. He had been named to succeed late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as Iran’s supreme leader, but quarreled with him in 1989 over the mass execution of prisoners. Instead, the current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, succeeded Khomeini after [...]
