THE WEEKS DEBATE WEST KURDISTAN : Henri Barkey – Mutlu Civirohlu et.al.
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Russia: Moscow Talks Up “Rapidly Developing” Relations With Iran – Amid Rumors Of Oil Barter & Military Co-operation
By Joanna Paraszczuk January 16, 2014 11:23 Updated- Relations between Moscow and Tehran were showing “positive trends”, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, ahead of a planned visit to the Russian capital on Thursday by Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif. Zarif is set to hold talks with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The Russian Foreign Ministry praised the “rapidly developing” relations between the two countries, and said that the “dynamics of political dialogue and economic contacts” had “intensified”.
KERRY ALWAYS COMES TOO LATE : WHAT ABOUT RUMORS OF A BARTER DEAL? RUSSIA & IRAN ?
The statement made no allusion to the story of a barter deal between Iran and Russia, as reported in a Reuters exclusive on January 10. According to Reuters, the two states are negotiating an oil-for-goods barter worth $1.5 billion a month, which would raise Iran’s oil exports significantly. Reuters cited “Russian and Iranian sources close to the barter negotiations” as saying that “final details were in discussion for a deal that would see Moscow buy up to 500,000 barrels a day of Iranian oil in exchange for Russian equipment and goods”. (EAWORLDVIEW.)
Starvation reported at Palestinian camp in Syria / “SHAME ON EUROPEAN PALESTINE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT”
By Liz Sly & Ahmed Ramadan, Washington Post – BEIRUT — 16-1-2014 – Disturbing images of emaciated children and elderly people who appear to have died of hunger are emerging from a Palestinian refugee camp on the edge of Damascus, where thousands are at risk of starvation after months of living under siege, U.N. officials and camp residents said Tuesday. The growing concern for the welfare of residents of the Yarmouk camp comes ahead of a major international conference in Kuwait on Wednesday aimed at raising a record $6.5 billion for U.N. efforts to aid suffering Syrians inside and outside their war-ravaged country.
YESTERDAY’S CHILD IN YARMOUK – YESTERDAY BUTCHER ASSAD STOPS U.N. AID TO YARMOUK
Israa al-Masri, a baby who later died of hunger-related illness in the Palestinian neighborhood of Yarmouk in Damascus, Syria.
Syria Daily: Starvation in Yarmouk Camp in Southern Damascus / LEFT WING PALESTINE SOLIDARITY STILL SILENT
By Joanna Paraszczuk, Scott Lucas January 16, 2014 – About 50 people dead from starvation in Yarmouk in Damascus –Attempts to deliver aid this week unsuccessful – Regime sieges of more than a year on areas near capital.
TODAY’S MESOP SYRIA INSIGHT : British, German & French intelligence met with Assad’s Tortures
Western intelligence services have reportedly met with Syrian officials to discuss security cooperation with President Bashar al-Assad’s government.
SALIH MUSLIM STARTS TO REALIZE IT ! – PYD leader: Kurds will not attend Geneva II unless Kurdish question is on agenda
January 15, 2014 – PARIS,— Syrian Kurdish PYD party co-chair Salih Muslim has stated at a press conference in Paris that the Kurds will not participate in the Geneva II Conference unless they are represented and the resolution of the Kurdish question is on the agenda. Muslim added that a meeting that did not address the Kurdish question would be like a second Lausanne.
More proof of ISIS torture of Kurds
Kurds were freed as a result of FSA operations in Jarabulus. According to the Kurdish Front all prisoners in Jarabulus were freed.
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