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MESOP TODAYS HEADLINE :
Germany is the only country which gives a damn about Syrians: Germany drops EU rules to allow in #Syria refugees http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11821822/Germany-drops-EU-rules-to-allow-in-Syrian-refugees.html …
MESOP TODAYS MOST RELEVANT TWEETS
PUK already fragmented to many factions not mentioning Gorran, and now its MPs are acting like own faction, what a mess!
Hayder al-Khoei @Hayder_alKhoei 10m10 minutes ago
Assad on Al-Manar: Russia stands firm with its allies. U.S. is known for abandoning its allies, one of the characteristics of their policies
Hayder al-Khoei @Hayder_alKhoei 4m4 minutes ago
Assad: Western actors tried in various ways to include the Syrian file as part of the nuclear agreement talks, but Iran rejected this. #pt
MESOP PENTAGON STATEMENT
Pentagon: US. & #Turkey finalize technical details on agreement fully integrating Turkey into US led coalition’s air strikes against #ISIL
MESOP : IRAQ DIRECTIONS BY CHAIRMAN QASEM SOLEIMANI
Joel Wing @JoelWing2 54m54 minutes ago – Gen Suleimani showed up at meet of National Alliance to tell them not to prosecute Maliki http://english.shafaaq.com/politics/15640-sharp-disagreement-between-abadi-and-qassem-soleimani.html …
@JoelWing2 Suleimani & Abadi allegedly got into argument over PM’s reforms & Abadi kicked general out
Aymenn J Al-Tamimi @ajaltamimi 1h1 hour ago – Rapid Intervention Regiment among the Iraqi militias participating in so-far unsuccessful regime efforts to retake Zabadani. #Iraq #Syria
MESOP : GOOD JOB !
Iranian Military Base in Kurdistan Destroyed http://pdki.org/english/iranian-military-base-in-kurdistan-destroyed/ … #TwitterKurds #PDKI #KDPI #Kurdistan
MESOP URGENT
Urgent Appeal for @Amnestyonline @hrw @fidh_en @UNWatch Behrooz Elkhan is facing immediate execution by Iran regime www.mesop.de
MESOP – FIRST TIME
The Economist @EconMEastAfrica 24h24 hours ago – For the first time in a UN vote, India sided with Israel and against the Arab world. Why? http://econ.trib.al/pRWyw5L
MESOP LATEST
Kurds launch new assault on Islamic State in northern Iraq http://news.yahoo.com/kurds-launch-assault-islamic-state-northern-iraq-075658394.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=tw … via @YahooNews
MESOP LATEST : ISIS infiltrates into Kobane, abducts dozens of Kurdish civilians
August 25, 2015 – ARA News – Kobane, Syria – Militants of the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) infiltrated into the Kurdish village of Qolan in the southern countryside of Kobane, north Syria, and abducted dozens of civilians, local sources reported on Monday.
MESOP TODAYS OPINION : EASY DOING = SAVE THE WORLD BY LBGTI ! / NGO’S MOSTLY LIVE BY WORDS
MESOP EASY DOING : SAVE THE WORLD BY LBGTI – The UN Security Council debates gays and ISIS: Why this is a bad idea .
On August 18, the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL or by its Arabic acronym, Da’ish) assaulted history. They beheaded an 82 year-old archaeologist, the resident expert on the ruins in the occupied city of Palmyra. Two days earlier, on August 16, Syrian government warplanes assaulted daily life; Assad’s pilots bombed a crowded market in the rebel-held town of Douma, near Damascus. They killed at least 96 people; hundreds more were wounded. Here is a Google summary of searches worldwide for “Douma” and “Palmyra” over the past week. (I’m sorry for the graphs; they’re dull when so much shiny gore is available online.) Read all and watch pics : http://www.mesop.de/?p=63913
EAST KURDISTAN (IRAN)
MESOP : ANALYSIS OF NEAR EAST POLICY FROM THE SCHOLARS AND ASSOCIATES OF THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE
MAXIMAL EXPOSURE, MINIMAL PRESENCE: IRAN’S MILITARY ENGAGEMENT IN IRAQ
PolicyWatch 2477 – August 25, 2015 – By Ali Alfoneh – Funeral notices and other information on Iran’s combat fatalities in Iraq provide a useful window into Tehran’s military strategy there, especially compared to its differing approach in Syria.Although Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) and its commander, Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, remain involved in Iraq, the actual scope of their military engagement seems inversely proportional to the intense Iranian social media and press coverage of their operations there. A survey of Persian-language reports on funeral services for Iranian nationals killed in combat in Iraq testifies to this. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=63892
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
MESOP NEWS : Pipeline outages threaten Kurdistan oil autonomy
By PATRICK OSGOOD, KAMARAN AL-NAJAR, BEN VAN HEUVELEN AND RAWAZ TAHIR of Iraq Oil Report – August 26th, 2015 – Iraqi oil exports to Turkey’s Ceyhan port are stopped again after going offline Monday morning – the latest in an intensifying pattern of outages that have blocked Kurdistan’s oil sector from reaching the international market for one-third of August.The combined effect of a slump in oil prices and incessant outages along the pipeline could jeopardize the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) policy of becoming self-reliant through independent oil exports: www.mesop.de
MESOP : THE UNITY OF THE FRAGMENTS – Kirby says U.S. hasn’t pressured Iraqi Kurdistan parties to extend Barzani’s term
WASHINGTON,— 26 Aug 2015 – The United States has not pressured the Kurdistan Region’s political parties to extend Massoud Barzani’s term, the State Department said on Monday. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=63896
MESOP FOCUS : How a Currency Crisis in Iraq Risks Fight Against Islamic State
By Jack Fairweather and Rinat Gaynullin – Bloomberg – 2015-08-26 – Any currency crisis usually comes with dire consequences for a country, and the threat of one in Iraq shows how the impact can go beyond the economy and markets. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=63915
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
MESOP : PKK WITH GENTLE VOICE / PREPARING FOR HDP ELECTION – DURAN KALKAN : Senior PKK commander urges restraint as violence in Turkey spirals – ISTANBUL,— A senior commander in the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Tuesday called on armed followers to refrain from unprovoked attacks on security forces as violence escalates in the Turkey’s southeastern Kurdish region following the collapse of a ceasefire.Duran Kalkan, a member of the PKK’s executive committee, stopped well short of ordering a new truce but said attacks on conscripts and other soldiers merely doing their duty violated the PKK’s “views”. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=63898
MESOP EXCLUSIV : Syrian rebels: Turkey tipped al Qaida group to U.S.-trained fighters
Nusra quickly captured graduates of $500 million train-and-equip program / Turkish Intelligence May Have Leaked Intel about U.S.-Trained Forces
Turkish intelligence may have provided information about the deployment of U.S.-trained Syrian rebels to extremist groups, rebel groups have told McClatchy. They charge that the intelligence facilitated the capture of Division 30 rebels by Jabhat al-Nusra shortly after they entered the country last month. U.S. officials deny that Turkey leaked intelligence, though some anonymous Turkish officials said the accusations were credible. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=63911
THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER
MESOP : EUROPÄISCHE WAHRNEHMUNGSSTÖRUNG
Iranische Klarstellung – VON THOMAS VON DER OSTEN-SACKEN
Man ist etwas entnervt in Teheran. Denn ständig erklären irgendwelche Europäer, der Iran habe im Rahmen des Iran Deals auch die Position zu Israel irgendwie revidiert. Hat er aber nicht. Das Ziel der Islamischen Republik ist die Vernichtung des jüdischen Staates. Das ist seit 1979 so und wird so bleiben, bis entweder die Islamische Republik Geschichte sein wird oder ihr Ziel erreicht hat.
Und jedesmal erklären sie es erneut:
Iran denied British claims that it had indicated a “more nuanced approach” to Israel, saying Tuesday that such discussions had not taken place and that its attitude toward the Jewish state remained unchanged. (…) A senior Iranian official said Tuesday that Israel “should be annihilated,” and that the thawing relations with the West would not translate into a shift in Tehran’s position concerning the Jewish state.