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wasn't invited to the dialogue. Despite that, they called it a "fraud" and issued a statement saying: "there is no way for us to accept a non-balanced dialogue that lacks all guarantees, we see this dialogue as a media tool which the regime aims to reduce the severity of popular and international
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welcomed the principle of dialogue as offering the only way out of the current political crisis, but criticized the current process. He considered it wrong to participate in a fake dialogue "that provokes sectarian tensions instead of resolving the current conflict". He rejected the government's
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300 invitations for participation in the national dialogue had bent sent out, with 37% assigned for political societies, 36% for civil and non-governmental organisations, 21% for opinion leaders and prominent figures within the
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should be included in talks and that Shia should be given due weight. A number of opposition figures have doubted whether the dialogue proposal was a genuine government attempt to reform even being referred to as a "chitchat room" for that reason.
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