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The text the scoring pipeline reads. Each document is tied to a party (or politician) with a published date, a source URL, and either Arabic, Hebrew, or English content. Open any one to read the verbatim source and see how it was scored.
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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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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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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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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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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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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…