Iran consulate stoned in Suli
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 1:18 amAngry protesters attack Iranian consulate in Sulaymaniyah
Wednesday, 07 November 2012 14:09
Shafaq News / Angry citizens attacked the Iranian consulate in Sulaimaniyah province by stones because the Iranian authorities arrested their Kurdish relatives who work as traders on Wednesday, demanding Tehran to disclose their fate.
Eye witnesses told "Shafaq News", that “the families of the Kurdish Iraqi traders who have been detained by the Iranian authorities, gathered in front of the headquarters of the Iranian consulate in Sulaimaniyah to protest the continued detention of these traders since a long time”.
The witnesses said that "those traders had traveled to Iran for business", stressing that "the Iranian authorities detained them since more than seven months ago without having committed any crimes."
Four Kurdish traders from the inhabitants of Sulaymaniyah province went to Iran for trade and disappeared after entering iran's territory, they are Bakhtiar Saeed, Amed Mohammed, Rebwar Mohammed and Arras Mustafa.