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Iran's Kurdish Sufis Dash Into Iraq for Funeral, Exposing COVID Border Control Deficiencies
By Michael Lipin, Rebaz Majeed, Mehdi Jedinia
July 10, 2020 04:35 AM
WASHINGTON/SULAYMANIYAH, IRAQ - Hundreds of Iranian Kurdish members of a Muslim sect seeking to attend the funeral of their leader in neighboring Iraq have forced their way through a crossing into Iraqi territory, exposing a weakness in Iranian and Iraqi border controls aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus.
Video clips widely shared on social media showed the Iranian followers of the Sufi Muslim Qadiriyya sect dashing across the Bashmakh crossing from Iran’s Kurdistan province into northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region Thursday. The clips were sent to VOA’s Kurdish service and published online by prominent Iraqi Kurdish news outlets Rudaw and Kurdistan24. VOA could not verify them independently...
Iran's Kurdish Sufis Dash Into Iraq for Funeral, Exposing COVID Border Control Deficiencies
By Michael Lipin, Rebaz Majeed, Mehdi Jedinia
July 10, 2020 04:35 AM
WASHINGTON/SULAYMANIYAH, IRAQ - Hundreds of Iranian Kurdish members of a Muslim sect seeking to attend the funeral of their leader in neighboring Iraq have forced their way through a crossing into Iraqi territory, exposing a weakness in Iranian and Iraqi border controls aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus.
Video clips widely shared on social media showed the Iranian followers of the Sufi Muslim Qadiriyya sect dashing across the Bashmakh crossing from Iran’s Kurdistan province into northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region Thursday. The clips were sent to VOA’s Kurdish service and published online by prominent Iraqi Kurdish news outlets Rudaw and Kurdistan24. VOA could not verify them independently...