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Sarbas Nazari is an Iranian Kurdish journalist who has written for English-language outlets based in and outside Iran since 2007. He has covered Middle East conflict and culture, Iran's nuclear program, the Kurdish question and the Islamic State's genocide of Iraq's Yazidi minority. On Twitter: @sarbas1982
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