Jun 1, 1994 · Idris Barzani, Farhad Barzani, Mohsin Dizayee, and Mohammed Dosky sat aside it throughout the long trip to Iran. In Tehran the next morning, the casket and the members of the party transferred to Iranian army helicopters to be flown to a small town west of Mahabad in Iranian Kurdistan, adjoining the Iraqi border.

Jun 7, 2024 · The Barzani Continuing Criminal Enterprise partners with international drug cartels and the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] to obtain cocaine, and manufacture crystal meth. In the business association with the IRGC and international drug cartels, the IRGC is the lead member because of Iran’s desperate need for cash.

Apr 25, 2024 · Idris’ research focuses on political theory, political theology, and political thought and intellectual history as an Arab and Muslim-American studies scholar. Idris’s panel was titled, “What Hinges on Anti-Palestinian Racism.” MIT President Sally Kornbluth opened the panel with an introduction and facilitated the talk.

Nov 1, 2024 · Masoud’s son and KDP Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, for example, said on October 29 that the polls are “the real” result of the Iraqi Kurdish peoples’ views, and all Kurds must “must” accept this. To believe he has a mandate when none exists, and schisms deepen between ordinary Kurds and their leadership, is to risk regional stability.

Dec 31, 2024 · Iraqi Kurds engage in any number of schemes that take advantage of lack of U.S. policy coordination. Corruption within Iraqi Kurdistan is legendary; the Barzani regime may exceed the Aliyevs in Azerbaijan and even Vladimir Putin in Russia for the sheer audacity of its schemes, most recently inflating the price of cancer testing more than ...

Jan 6, 2025 · Kurds not only in Turkey and Syria, but also in Iraq and Iran openly honor him and read his writings. Öcalan’s chief rival, Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader Masoud Barzani, is a tribal leader whose followers number only two million at most. PKK reform is also obvious. Its initial Marxism and violence are characteristics of the past.

May 30, 2024 · From the Barzani perspective, the trip was a bust. Secretary of State Antony Blinken did not affirm the military subsidies. While National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan paid lip service to sacrifices of the Peshmerga in the fight against the Islamic State, he also was publicly silent on Barzani’s call for greater partnership. At the Pentagon ...

Nov 1, 2024 · Defiant When Challenged. In response to FWI queries about his posts, and their potential to promote and glorify violence against non-Muslims and moderate Muslims, Iskandar denied FWI’s suggestion, declaring in an email response, “Out of my ~5,000 X posts, close to 85% of them are original translations of authoritative, classical Islamic texts.”

Feb 4, 2024 · “In but one representative instance, in November, 2021, operating under direct orders from Defendants Masoud Barzani, Masrour Barzani [at a time Defendant Masrour Barzani was Prime Minister of Defendant Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government, the presiding and actual head of government and head of the executive power,] and Waysi Barzani, agents of the Barzani Continuing Criminal Enterprise ...

Dec 19, 2006 · KDP leader Masoud Barzani assumed the presidency of the Kurdistan region, and his nephew Nechervan Barzani became prime minister, overseeing a unified, albeit inactive, parliament. They preside over more than forty ministers, all of …