The company is from eastern Kurdistan, which has been ruled for decades by the party of Jalal Talabani, now the president of Iraq.
On the eve of Newroz, in southern and eastern Kurdistan, bonfires are lit.
The wave of nationalism engulfed eastern Kurdistan after the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty in line with a series of anti-revolutionary revolts across the country.
In 1963 it was concentrated in eastern Kurdistan and probably took part in later offensives.
He was born in eastern Kurdistan in 1961.
In the market square of Sulaimaniya, the main city of eastern Kurdistan, a schoolteacher said the historical enmity between Arabs and Kurds would not disappear anytime soon.
In eastern Kurdistan, kak Foad's name is synonymous with popular revolution.
Kak Foad was born in 1948 in Almana, a village around Marivan, in eastern Kurdistan.
Karim Mohammedzadeh was born in eastern Kurdistan and came to Sweden as a political refugee in 1988 and immediately gained the right to asylum.
In Sulaimaniya, the largest city in eastern Kurdistan, the health authorities said they had sent samples from the uncle to be tested at a lab in Cairo.