LET THE CHILDREN IN: Princess Ashraf visits Kurdish refugee camp Iran-Iraq border (1974)

AP Photo Caption : (AUG – 29, 1974) – – HE’S SAFE FROM THE SOLDIERS – Kurdish refugee child sits Friday in a tent camp along the Iran – Iraqi border well Inside Iranian territory. The child is one of some 80, 000 Kurdish Iraqis who fled into Iran in face of Iraqi Soldiers. About 2 Million of Iraq’s 10 Million people are Kurds – a militant ethnic group concentrated in the north. (APWirephoto via Cable from Tehran) (Source: persianrealm.com)

The Shah of Iran’s twin sister Princess Ashraf arrives on the Iran-Iraq border to see, first hand, the plight of refugees coming across the border to Iran. (video courtesy: ‪frauenatz)

(NOTE: Video footage claims it’s 1969 but given the archived press photo above and the fact that the Algiers Treaty between Iran and Iraq was signed at the time this footage should actually correspond to 1974)

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GASSEMLOU : No to Monarchy

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Kurdish leader speaking on future form of government :

Wikipedia : Abdol Rahman Ghassemlou (December 22, 1930 – July 13, 1989) was a Kurdish political leader. Ghassemlou was the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran from 1973 to 1989, when he was assassinated by perpetrators thought to be agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran >>>

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ALGIERS PEACE TREATY (1975)

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In March 1975, subsequent to discussions at an OPEC meeting, Iran and Iraq agreed to meet and negotiate their dispute over borders and water and navigation rights. This meeting resulted in the Algiers accord below, and in a subsequent treaty signed June 13, 1975.

During the convocation of the OPEC Summit Conference in the Algerian capital and upon the initiative of President Houari Boumedienne, the Shah of Iran and Saddam Hussein (Vice-Chairman of the Revolution Command Council) met twice and conducted lengthy talks on the relations between Iraq and Iran. The thalweg, meaning the median course of the Shatt-El-Arab waterway, was designated as the border. The agreement caused the Shah of Iran to withdraw Iranian support for the Kurdish rebellion, which thereupon collapsed.

Less than six years after signing the treaty, Iraq attacked Iran to invade the border lands. The main points of the dispute concerned the Shatt El Arab, a waterway that is Iraq’s only outlet to the sea, as well disputed islands and territories. In part, the dispute arose because of the shifting course of the Shatt El Arab. Even after the war, the disputes have not been totally resolved. More Here

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KURDS REBEL AGAINST IRI / CHEMICAL ATTACK ON KURDS

DURING IRAN IRAQ WAR

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HISTORY OF VIOLENCE:Chemical Weapons Attack On Kurds (1988) :

Western journalists taken to scene of chemical attack by Iranian Occupying Forces in Iraqi Kurdistan and shown hundreds of bodies. Iraq has been accused of attacking their own people with cyanide gas as most of the dead are Kurds who are fighting for an independent Kurdistan and have sided with Iran in the Gulf war. Now the Region in Iraq is under Iranian occupation so when Journalists aim to ask questions to the Iraqi Prisoners of War about the use of Chemical weapons ( forbidden by the Geneva Convention), they are halted by the Iranian authorities to ask Any further questions.

Kurds Resist Ayatollah Khomeini’s Revolution (BBC-Black Footage in the begining):  

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KURDS AND SYRIAN OPPOSITION

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Profile: Syrian National Council head Abdulbaset Sayda (bbc)

Kurdish academic Abdulbaset Sayda has been named the head of the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) following the resignation of Burhan Ghalioun on 17 May

Syrian National Council Elects New Leader:

Syria’s opposition party the Syrian National Council names Adbul Baset Saida its new president.

Iraqi Kurdistan President Barzani delivers speech to Kurdish-Syrian Opposition (English Subs) Jan 30, 2012 :

Kurdistan Region of Iraq President Masoud Barzani’s Speech at the Conference for the Kurdish-Syrian Opposition in Erbil. The Kurdish-Syrian Opposition, known as the Kurdish National Council, is a coalition of dissident Kurdish parties from Syria that are seeking Kurdish rights in Syria. The coalition was recently hosted in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s capital, Erbil, for a multi-day conference in which they discussed the future of the Kurds in a post-Assad Syria.  The video has English subtitles. Simply click on the “CC” in the video controls. If the text is difficult to read, you can click and drag it to another part of the screen for better visibility.

LET THE CHILDREN IN: Princess Ashraf visits Kurdish refugee camp Iran-Iraq border (1974)

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