MESOP NEWS “PUK – THE TEHRAN BRANCH IN KURDISTAN”: Iran Training PUK Electoral Officials

Basnews English – 30 Marc 2017 – ERBIL — The Islamic Republic of Iran is running a training course for the electoral officials of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).

According to the information BasNews has obtained from a confidential source, the 15-day-long course has already started and there will be a graduation ceremony held in Tehran later in April.The source pointed out that the Iranian experts are delivering the course which intends to train the PUK officials on ways of influencing the popular votes.

The PUK is known for its close ties with Tehran which hopes to establish a coalition between PUK, Change Movement (Gorran) and the Shi’ite factions led by Nouri al-Maliki, the former Iraqi Prime Minister and leader of the Islamic Dawa Party.The trilateral coalition between the aforementioned parties are wished to be formed after the upcoming parliamentary elections in Iraq.www.mesop.de