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In an interview with "Reuters:" Hashemi says that Maliki allow Iran to transfer weapons to Syria


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In an interview with "Reuters:" Hashemi says that Maliki allow Iran to transfer weapons to Syria

Published 17/09/2012 04:30 AM

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on fugitive Sunday that Iran is using Iraqi airspace in transporting supplies to the forces of President Bashar al-Assad and that thousands of Iraqi militia fighters had crossed the border into Syria to support Assad's forces.

Hashemi said - who fled from Iraq in December and sentenced him to an Iraqi court a week before death - that the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki does not object to the transfer of ammunition and weapons to Assad's forces.

He said in an interview with Reuters in Istanbul that his country turned into a corridor of Iranian support for the Assad regime and he has no doubt in it.

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Hashemi in his speech to "Reuters"

He added that it is not just about opening airspace, but the thousands of militia fighters who are now inside Syria to support Assad and the killing of innocent Syrians. Hashemi said in reports received from Iraq's Anbar province bordering Syria and the Syrian opposition.

He said the Syrian opposition fighters seized from Iraqi militias inside Syria.

And rejected, a senior adviser to the owners of these accusations and said that Iraq is committed to non-alignment of any of the parties to the conflict in Syria.

Said Ali al-Moussawi, a media adviser to Maliki said the prime minister has always emphasized that Iraq will not allow any country to use its airspace to transport arms to Syria.

Hashemi fled - a prominent Sunni politician and an opponent of the owners - from Iraq after authorities issued a warrant for his arrest in December in a move that threatened to collapse a fragile power-sharing government between Shiite and Sunni blocs and Kurdish.

And an Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced Hashemi hanged after trial in absentia for his leadership what has been called death squads. Hashemi says that the case is politically motivated and it was built on testimony extracted under torture.

Although Maliki's government has said it does not support any of the parties to the conflict in Syria feared Shiite leaders in Iraq that leads fall Assad to split Syria along sectarian lines, which would be likely to rise Sunni regime hardliner will shake the Iraqi security fragile and increased sectarian tension.

Syrian forces face armed opposition forces seeking to topple Assad since 18 months in an uprising, activists say they have killed 27 thousand people.

And receive the opposition, which consists mainly of the year in support of the Sunni Gulf states and neighboring Turkey in its struggle to topple Assad, who belongs to the Alawite sect.

The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on Sunday that members of the Revolutionary Guards providing non-military support in Syria and Iran might intervene militarily if subjected closest allies to attack.

In many Western countries and Syrian opposition groups doubts for a long time in the presence of Iranian troops in Syria, a charge Tehran denies.

Hashemi said that Iraq allow Iran to escape economic sanctions against the United States-led aimed at curbing its nuclear program.

He said the Iranians who are facing a sharp decline in the exchange rate exploit banks in Iraq to buy the U.S. dollar, and they smuggling to Iran. Hashemi said that the Iraqi government has also not implemented the sanctions imposed on Syria.

He said that doing so would not that prolongs the life of the Assad regime only, but at the same time increases poverty in Iraq, which needs every dollar.

The accusations Hashemi raising questions about the extent of U.S. influence in Iraq after the departure of U.S. troops.

The withdrawal of U.S. President Barack Obama, U.S. forces completely in December after nearly nine years of war. Critics say the move was demolished U.S. influence in Iraq despite massive investment effort by the United States there.

Maliki's government has said it wants good relations with the United States but at the same time maintains strong relations with Iran hostile to it.

The ruling threatened against Hashemi increase sectarian tensions in Iraq, whose government faces Shi'ite-led political turmoil and a Sunni insurgency.

Hashemi said that the trial is an example of the absence of justice and corruption and violation of human rights and the escalation of sectarian sinking Iraq under the rule of al-Maliki.

He saw his turn from democracy to an authoritarian regime that Iraq faces a huge obstacle single is the Prime Minister.

He worked with his lawyer to appeal the sentence and said he hoped that interfere with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to preserve the Constitution.

He said he wrote to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and said he was ready to face the charges against him in any place to ensure a fair trial.

Nick Tattersall http://www.altahreernews.com/inp/view.asp?ID=11222

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