Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Iraqi Foreign Minister Demands That Iran Stop Shelling of Kurdish Area in North




The New York Times

By James Glanz


September 4, 2007
TEHRAN, Sept. 3 — Iraq’s foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, delivered a strongly worded demand to Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and other Iranian officials here on Monday to halt the shelling of a mountainous border region in Iraq’s north, where Mr. Zebari said the bombardment has driven as many as 3,000 Kurdish villagers from their homes and set orchards and fields ablaze. Mr. Zebari said in an interview that the Iranians, who have refused to acknowledge publicly that the shelling was taking place, did not dispute his account.
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