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Interview English IQ 2026-02-05 Tier 2 Masrour Barzani (Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq) — interview with The National, 5 Feb 2026: the KRG mediated between Damascus, the SDF and the US/France over Syria's Kurds, urging the new Syrian government to "lead and not be led" and enshrine Kurdish rights in the constitution; presses intra-Kurdish unity ("Elections should matter") and resolving Erbil–Baghdad oil/budget disputes constitutionally.
— We were in direct contact with both Damascus and also Qamishli and also with the United States, with France, with many countries that were playing a part in mediating and trying to calm the situation — lead and not be led — Elections should matter
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Social post English IQ 2026-01-28 Tier 2 Nouri al-Maliki (twice PM of Iraq; State of Law / Dawa; Coordination Framework's PM candidate) — post on X, 28 Jan 2026, after Trump threatened to cut US support over his comeback: "We categorically reject the blatant American interference in Iraq's internal affairs… a violation of sovereignty." The Iraqi sovereigntist / anti-US-interference pole. [Second doc — distinct sovereignty axis; an evolution from his 2006 US-Congress address.]
We categorically reject the blatant American interference in Iraq's internal affairs. We consider it (US interference) a violation of sovereignty, contrary to the democratic system in Iraq after 2003, and an infringement on the decision of the Coordinating Framework for selecting its candidate.
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Speech English IQ 2025-11-11 Tier 2 Nechirvan Barzani (President, Kurdistan Region of Iraq; KDP) — press conference on Iraq's parliamentary-election day, 11 Nov 2025 (Rudaw): Iraq must make a "serious effort" to implement the constitution (the KDP's central demand on Kurdistan's autonomy), and he hopes the vote ushers in "a democratic federal Iraq where all components get their rights."
That constitution has not been implemented. Indeed, the most important thing to be done after these elections is to make a serious effort to implement the Iraqi Constitution, We hope that these elections are a new start for Iraq - a democratic federal Iraq where all components get their rights and achievements,
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Party platform Arabic IQ 2025-10-01 Tier 1 البرنامج الانتخابي لائتلاف دولة القانون — الثوابت السياسية والمرتكزات الوطنية
استمد الائتلاف اسمه من الدولة والقانون، لإيمانه بمشروع الدولة وأهمية بناء دولة دستورية وقانونية ذات سيادة كاملة، تعمل على ترسيخ ثقافة المشاركة السياسية واحترام خيارات الشعب العراقي بمختلف مكوناته، على مبدأ المواطنة والمساواة القانونية. السيادة الفكرية والسياسية: إن آراء الائتلاف تنبع من وعي وطني حر، وليس خاضعاً لوصاية…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2025-09-23 Iraq — Statement at the 80th UN General Assembly General Debate (23 Sep 2025, Pres Abdullatif Jamal Rashid)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم بداية أتقدم للسيدة انالينا بيربوك (Annalena Baerbock) بخالص التهنئة لرئاستها الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة في دورتها الثمانين [… …] أتشرف بأن أقف اليوم امام جمعكم الكريم متحدثا باسم العراق، بتاريخه العريق الذي تعرفونه جميعا، وبالتحديات الكبيرة التي واجهها وانتصر عليها، وبالآمال والتطلعات…
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Press release Arabic IQ 2025-09-10 Tier 2 Mohammed al-Halbousi (leader, Taqaddum/Progress Party; former Speaker of Iraq's Parliament) — al-Rasheed readout of his meeting with northern Babil notables, 10 Sep 2025: security/provincial stability via return of the displaced, reconstruction of damaged areas, social harmony, "preserving entitlements," and active election participation. (Outlet readout, not a verbatim quote.)
رئيس حزب "تقدم" الرئيس محمد الحلبوسي يستقبل عدداً من شيوخ ووجهاء شمال محافظة بابل، وتم التداول في ضرورة دعم الأمن وأهمية استقرار المحافظة من خلال ضمان عودة النازحين إلى ديارهم وإعادة إعمار المناطق المتضرِّرة وتحقيق الوئام الاجتماعي الذي اعتادت عليه المحافظة لعشرات السنين، وأهمية حفظ الاستحقاقات والمشاركة الفاعلة في…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2024-09-24 Iraq — 79 UN GA Speech (Pres Abdullatif Jamal Rashid, Sept 2024, post-Daesh-victory + Development Road / BRI corridor)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم السيد رئيس الجمعية العامة، السيد الأمين العام، السيدات والسادة الحضور السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته تأتي الدورة التاسعة والسبعون لاجتماعات الجمعية العامةِ للأمم المتحدةِ في خضمّ ظروفٍ خطيرة تمرُّ على الشرقِ الأوسط، يواجهُ فيها النظامُ الدوليُ العالميُ امتحاناً صعباً يهددُ وجودَه، ويجعلُهُ…
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Party platform English IQ 2024-06-01 PUK: 49 Years Struggle for Kurdistan — PUKMEDIA statement of principles & founding
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) is a political party founded in the Kurdistan Region on June 1st, 1975. Its principles are democracy, human rights, and the right to self-determination. The PUK is a member of Socialist International. How did the PUK come into existence? The PUK was founded as a response to the…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2023-09-22 Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani address to the 78th UN General Assembly, 22 Sep 2023 (Arabic original — Tier-1 primary; English translation needed for scoring)
كلمة السيد محمد شياع السوداني رئيس وزراء جمهورية العراق أمام الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة — الدورة 78 — 22 أيلول/سبتمبر 2023. السيد رئيس الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة، السيد الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة، أصحاب الجلالة والفخامة والمعالي، السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته. إن إرادة الاتفاق والتفاهم تغلبت في العراق الجديد،…
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Interview Arabic IQ 2023-09-21 Mohammed Shia al-Sudani — “A Conversation With the Prime Minister of Iraq” (Council on Foreign Relations transcript), 21 September 2023 (English interpretation of Arabic)
AL-SUDANI: Twenty years after the major change in Iraq […] We went through a very painful experience in countering the regime starting with al-Qaida and ending with ISIS/Daesh. After we accomplished victory over Daesh […] The battle against Daesh unified all Iraqi citizens with all the components and affiliations.…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2022-08-29 Muqtada al-Sadr — statement announcing his 'final retirement' from politics (Twitter communiqué, 29 August 2022; Arabic original)
يظن الكثيرون بما فيهم السيد الحائري (دام ظله) أن هذه القيادة جاءت بفضلهم أو بأمرهم... كلا، إن ذلك بفضل ربي أولا ومن فيوضات السيد الوالد قُدس سره... الذي لم يتخل عن العراق وشعبه. وعلى الرغم من استقالته، فإن النجف الأشرف هي المقر الأكبر للمرجعية كما هو الحال دوما... وإنني لم أدع يوما العصمة أو الاجتهاد ولا حتى (القيادة)…
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Article Arabic IQ 2020-07-20 Ammar al-Hakim — “Historic Opportunity to Build a Strong Iraqi State” (Asharq al-Awsat op-ed), 20 July 2020 (English translation of Arabic)
The conflict of the state and non-state in Iraq began when fundamental changes were introduced to its system of rule. […] We can either have a state or a non-state. It is from this point that a state can begin to take shape and grow. A state based on institutions is the foundation of the Mihrab Martyr's political…
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Interview English IQ 2018-10-22 Bafel Talabani (PUK) — interview ruling out a return to the PUK–KDP civil war (Al Jazeera, via Rudaw), 22 October 2018
"Over my dead body. And over the dead body of many, many Kurds. This is just not something that will happen. […] We are still paying the price of that internal conflict. Kurds will not, should not, and absolutely must not be allowed to kill Kurds. We need to be able to resolve our issues politically. I think this…
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Manifesto Arabic IQ 2018-01-17 إعلان تحالف سائرون — كلمتا رائد فهمي وحسن العاقولي (Sairoon Alliance launch declaration, 2018)
كلمة الرفيق رائد فهمي في اعلان التحالف … تحالف "سائرون" .. يحمل مشروعا وطنيا للتغيير والأصلاح الحقيقي، ويهدف إلى تصحيح مسار العملية السياسية، ومغادرة نهج الطائفية السياسية والمحاصصة. إن رسالة مشروع سائرون هي إخراج البلاد من دوامة الأزمات والصراع على مغانم السلطة والنفوذ، عبر بناء دولة المواطنة الديمقراطية المدنية،…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2017-07-24 Ammar al-Hakim's founding keynote launching Tayyar al-Hikma al-Watani (National Wisdom Movement), 24 Jul 2017 (Arabic original, via Rudaw)
اعلن رئيس المجلس الأعلى الإسلامي، عمار الحكيم، اليوم الإثنين، انسحابه من قيادة المجلس وتشكيل حزب جديد بإسم "تيار الحكمة الوطني"، مشيرا الى ان تياره الجديد يعتمد على الدماء الشابة. وقال الحكيم في كلمة متلفزة نقلتها شبكة رووداو الإعلامية، ان "نشكر اخوتنا في المجلس الاعلى الاسلامي لتحملهم معنا في السراء واضراء ونعلن…
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Press release Arabic IQ 2014-06-13 Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani — the al-jihad al-kifa'i (collective-duty defense) fatwa against ISIS, read by Sheikh Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalai, Karbala, 13 June 2014 (Arabic original)
إن العراق وشعبه يواجه تحدياً كبيراً وخطراً عظيماً وإن الارهابيين لا يهدفون إلى السيطرة على بعض المحافظات كنينوى وصلاح الدين فقط بل صرحوا بأنهم يستهدفون جميع المحافظات ولا سيما بغداد وكربلاء المقدسة والنجف الأشرف ، فهم يستهدفون كل العراقيين ، ومن هنا فإن مسؤولية التصدي لهم ومقاتلتهم هي مسؤولية الجميع ولا يختص بطائفةٍ…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2014-06-13 Tier 2 Grand Ayatollah Sistani fatwa for defensive jihad against ISIS, Karbala Friday prayers, 13 Jun 2014 (English translation of Arabic original)
Speaker (by proxy): Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the highest Shia marja' (religious authority) in Najaf. Location: announced through his representative Sheikh Abdul Mehdi al-Karbalai during Friday prayer sermons in Karbala. Date: 13 June 2014, three days after ISIS captured Mosul. The single core sentence of the…
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Article English IQ 2013-04-28 Tier 2 State of Law-led (Maliki) government's press-freedom record: the Communications and Media Commission's 28 Apr 2013 suspension of 10 satellite channels (incl. Al Jazeera), targeting opposition/pro-Sunni outlets after their Hawija-raid coverage — HRW found no legal basis (arbitrary). Documented by Human Rights Watch (30 Apr 2013); corroborated by CPJ.
The official Communications and Media Commission suspended the licenses on April 28, 2013, amid spiraling violence and anti-government demonstrations in Sunni-majority provinces. The license suspensions targeted exclusively opposition stations while leaving others like state-run al-Iraqiya channel free to continue…
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Party platform English IQ 2010-12-18 Tier 1 About KDP — party definition, principles & goals (National / Patriotic / Regional)
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is a democratic and patriotic party who believes in human rights, social justice and individual freedom. The party believes in the Kurdish and other nations' right to self determination through democratic and peaceful means, benefiting from Mustafa Barzani's patriotic legacy. National…
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Interview English IQ 2007-05-11 Tier 2 Yanar Mohammed (Iraqi feminist; founder/director, Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq) — interview (Toward Freedom / Guernica, 11 May 2007): OWFI as "the modern, secular voice of Iraq that will not allow this country to be turned into another Afghanistan under the Taliban," and a critique that "women's welfare is... a card... used between misogynist parties," with "most women in government represent Sharia."
We formed in 2003, and spoke about full equality. We represent the modern, secular voice of Iraq that will not allow this country to be turned into another Afghanistan under the Taliban. Women’s welfare is like another card that is used between misogynist parties to pressure each other. Most women in government…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2006-07-26 Nouri al-Maliki — Address to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress, 26 July 2006 (official English record)
I know that some of you here question whether Iraq is part of the war on terror. Let me be very clear. This is a battle between true Islam, for which a person's liberty and rights constitute essential cornerstones, and terrorism which wraps itself in a fake Islamic cloak […]. The truth is that terrorism has no…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2004-04-01 Tier 3 Muqtada al-Sadr — Iraqi Shia populist doctrinal mosaic (anti-occupation, Saddam-as-war-criminal, "freedom that satisfies God")
From Muqtada al-Sadr (b. 1973, Iraqi Shia cleric, leader of the Sadrist Movement and successor to his father Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, assassinated by the Saddam regime in 1999; led the Mahdi Army insurgency against the US occupation 2003-2008; later transitioned to electoral politics and won the largest…
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Press release English IQ 2003-11-29 Ali al-Sistani — supplementary: 2003 Bremer-exchange + elected-constitutional-council doctrine
From Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani (b. 1930, Iranian-born Iraqi Shia marja al-taqlid based in Najaf; one of the four Maraji al-Taqlid (Sources of Emulation) for global Shia Islam; the dominant Shia religious authority in post-2003 Iraq; gave the foundational 2003 fatwas mandating Iraqi elections and rejecting…
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Speech Arabic IQ 2001-01-17 Saddam Hussein — Address on the 10th anniversary of the 1991 Gulf War (the “Mother of All Battles”), 17 January 2001 (official Iraqi-government English translation of Arabic)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate Great people, […] Arabs, […] Peace be with you and Allah's Mercy and Blessings! On a day like this day in the year 1991, a marvel happened on both sides of an encounter. […] At that time […] Evil and all those who made Satan their protector lined up in one place,…
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Manifesto Arabic IQ 1947-04-06 دستور حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي (Constitution of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party — Aflaq founding constitution; Arabic original)
المبدأ الأول: وحدة الأمة العربية وحريتها العرب أمة واحدة لها حقها الطبيعي في أن تحيا في دولة واحدة وأن تكون حرة في توجيه مقدراتها.. ولهذا فإن حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي يعتبر: 1- الوطن العربي وحدة سياسية اقتصادية لا تتجزأ ولا يمكن لأي قطر من الأقطار العربية أن يستكمل شروط حياته منعزلاً عن الآخر. 2- الأمة العربية وحدة…
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Interview English IQ Tier 2 Reham Yacoub (Iraqi doctor; women's-rights campaigner; Basra Tishreen protest organizer, assassinated Aug 2020) — Middle East Eye interview, 2018: her defiant resolve — "We are expecting that we might get killed as well, but this won't stop us from asking for our rights and it won't stop us from living" — and determination to keep protesting until their demands are met.
We are expecting that we might get killed as well, but this won't stop us from asking for our rights and it won't stop us from living. They have not heard any of our demands until now. The situation is getting worse. The thing we can do is keep going till we get our rights and for sure there will be some losses on…
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Speech English IQ Tier 2 Nechirvan Barzani (President, Kurdistan Region of Iraq; KDP) — statement, 2025 (per Kurdistan24, "Iraq Still Far from True Federalism"): "Baghdad's treatment of the Kurdistan Region does not align with the principles of federalism." [Second doc — distinct KRG-FEDERALISM / Kurdish-autonomy-rights axis, vs his election-day Iraqi-government-formation doc.]
This model is outlined in the Iraqi constitution, which was approved by 80 percent of the people. But Baghdad's treatment of the Kurdistan Region does not align with the principles of federalism.
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Interview English IQ Tier 2 Masrour Barzani (KRG Prime Minister; senior KDP leader) — interview with the Kurdish magazine Gulan (via KDP, ~2017, ahead of the independence referendum): asserting the Kurdish right to self-determination and a NEGOTIATED, peaceful separation from Iraq — "it is time to separate peacefully and become two strong allies." [Second doc — distinct Kurdish self-determination / independence axis.]
We have the right [to an independent country] whenever we want. Many countries now recognize the history of betrayals against the people of Kurdistan and our right to self-determination. Baghdad officials must understand that since they do not accept Kurds as their real partner in the Iraqi Federal Government, it is…