The Husseiniya threshold resolves the biggest tribal conflict in Basra that has lasted for years

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Baghdad Post Tuesday, 02 April 2019 03:06 PM

 

Al-Fayez: Basra is not ready to declare the region for this reason

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The deputy of the province of Basra, Amer al-Fayez, on Tuesday, the inability to declare the province of Basra at the moment, noting that the province is not prepared politically and security for such a project.

Fayez said in a statement that "the efforts to declare the province of Basraare not new territories where signatures were collected more than 10 percent of the people of the city for the declaration of federalism was submitted to the central government and then the Electoral Commission."

He added that "the central government should take the case and promised to take several measures to reform the security and service situation in the city, especially after the water and electricity crisis." 
Fayez said that the calls of the provincial council at the present time to declare Basra provinces is a pressure paper on the federal government, "noting that" the province is not ready to declare a region of the aspects of security, political and even economic. "

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Ibrahim Al-Obaidi Wednesday, 03 April 2019 3:01 PM

Report Council adopted the most difficult decision and there are waiting to activate .. Basra independent province

 

Observers: the independence of Basra is the only solution to take advantage of resources and potential

The decision of the Basra Council to vote for the transfer to an autonomous region administratively for the federal government in Baghdad. To form a huge step Basra province waited for a long time. The oil and resource-rich province suffers from extreme poverty, marginalization and unemployment.

At the same time, the massive demonstrations that have been going on for months against the Baghdad government have not yielded anything. The reality of the service as it is deteriorating and lost. And the suffering of its people is increasing day by day.

The Basra oil-rich provincial council voted to turn it into an independent province. 
After an extraordinary session of the Basra Council, the Speaker of the Council Sabah al- Bezouni said that 20 members signed the request to transfer Basra to the territory in an absolute majority, while the required 12 signatures.

Al- Bazzouni explained that the council formed a committee to follow up the decision and support the efforts that are consistent with the vision of the region, especially on the level of activists and politicians supporters, in addition to civil society organizations, and the mobilization of demonstrations. 

A vote on independence and

continued to do all that to redress Basra and take its administrative and financial benefits from the federal government, in accordance with the Constitution. 

According to the Provincial Constituency Act No. 13 of 2008, a request must be submitted to the IHEC with the signatures of 2% of the total electorate in Basra. 

After reviewing the application and verifying its legality, the Commission shall initiate a referendum in the governorate and shall be successful if it obtains a majority of the voters.

For his part, the Chairman of the Legal and Administrative Committee in the provincial council Ahmed Abdul Hussein said that the Council voted during the extraordinary session by a majority to continue the previous steps to make Basra a province in accordance with the Constitution and the law. 

He pointed out that the request for the establishment of the Territory accompanied by signatures was submitted last year to the Prime Minister, but the request was not treated seriously, noting that the Council had submitted a similar request in 2014, and also not taken. Abdul Hussein pointed out that the decision provides a clear message to the federal government and the House of Representatives that the Basrien can not give up their constitutional and legal right to establish the territory, and they want to fortify their province of interference and political pressure. 

Vast resources

and Basra contain the largest wells of Iraq 's oil, and produces about 80% of the oil, which is the only sea port of Iraq to the world.

Basra has witnessed large protests last summer and to the moment to demand better conditions of life, especially the provision of safe water and electricity, as well as the demand for employment opportunities for young people. 

This comes as the Iraqi constitution allows the provinces to be transformed into regions according to the rules, conditions and legal steps that must be taken to reach the recognition of the central government in the region. The provincial formation law No. 13 of 2008 regulates these procedures ... This is what the Basra provincial council started collecting signatures. 

Mu'ayyad Salem al-Juhaishi, a security and military expert, commented on the move. The Constitution, in its articles 116, 118, 119, 120 and 121, approved the transfer of provinces to administrative regions.

Al-Juhaishi said that the province's transformation into a territory is within its administrative borders and later it is entitled to join other provinces under the same name even if it is not adjacent to it and this region has one head without regard to the administrative division, and often the processes of accession are based on common interests between Those Territories.

 In the same context, the Basra Governorate Council committed the government departments to purchase their needs from the governorate laboratories exclusively, and to buy from other governorates when needed. 

The head of Basra provincial council Sabah al-Bezouni said the council decided to oblige all government departments to purchase their needs from the laboratories of the province exclusively in support of the local product, "noting that the province has a lot of factories that can provide the state departments of their needs of products, which was included in the general budget for the country. 

He Albzona "said the council 's decision aims to encourage and support local industry. 

 Observers commented on the move with full support. Especially as there is no response from the federal government to the demands of the province of growing in light of the ongoing demonstrations. 

The move will restore Basra's mind and make it the primary beneficiary of its resources and capabilities.

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Upper: Old Gulf plan to control Basra and turn it into a territory

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politician revealed former MP Hassan Alawi, Thursday, the Old Gulf plan to seize Basra through theterritory and make it lease for 99 years. 
"Before the fall of the regime, a conference was organized in one of the Gulf states and I was called to him as a representative of the Iraqi opposition in London," al-Alawi told Al-Maaloumah. 
He added that "during the conference to turn Basra into a territory after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein or leased for 99 years by one of the Arab countries." 
He explained that "from then I knew the extent of conspiracies on Basra and the attempt to control and claim by the countries of the region and the neighborhood," noting that "the movement around the province of Basra at the present time likely multiple possibilities."
He pointed out that "the law refers to the existence of support and support 10% of the population of the province to the order of the region before the referendum," explaining that "the claimants and with all the strength and external support could not collect 2% of the visual people pro-territory will make it dead before it falls and fails "

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South region .. political movements from three provinces and the timing is not appropriate

Political | 04:33 - 06/04/2019

 

 

 

Special - Mawazin News 
witnessed the past days, political movements, to establish the southern region consists of three provinces are Basra and Dhi Qar and Maysan, while observers described the timing of these moves is appropriate and the step of the province will not see the light. 
The Basra provincial council had voted earlier, on the continuation of the draft claim to transform the province into a province. 
"During the past few days, there was a meeting with the officials of the provinces of Basrah and Maysan in Basra, and when we were there, the council voted to continue demanding the project for the establishment of the province," said a member of the Dhi Qar provincial council. "There was a proposal that the region should not be expanded, To include the three governorates. "
He added that "the members of the Basra Council demanded that the declaration of the province of Basra and then possible to enter some of the southern provinces to him," noting that "a member of the Council of Dhi Qar submitted a request to the Presidency of the Council in this regard, but the reservation was placed on the request, Informal and can be discussed during future sessions. " 
Revealed political sources informed of / Mawazin News / "the rejection of the Liberal bloc in the Council of Maysan to join the project to transform the province into a province," noting that "free as the largest bloc in the Council rejected the proposal, despite the existence of supporters of the rest of the blocks." 
The sources added that "the move to turn the provinces into the province timings are inappropriate and inconsistent with the plans of the central government and any request will be submitted in this regard will be rejected."
"He said the political analyst confident al-Hashemi in an interview for / Mawazin News /" The step of the Council of Basra will not see the light, and Iraq bitter experience on the subject of the province with Kurdistan and therefore can not implement this step, "noting that" the declaration of the Council of Basra is to push failure and throw Ball in the stadium of the federal government. " 
He added that "the question here, if the Basra Council aims to demand the region to improve services, why not provide services to citizens in Basra?", Noting that "the political conflict in Baghdad turned to the provinces and the impact on services provided to citizens, Governorates No. 21 gave broad powers to the councils. " 
And between Hashemi, that "the subject of the constitutional and constitutional Iraqi constitution is federal, but politicians take confederal," noting that "
The president of the Supreme Council of the late Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Ban demanded the establishment of the southern region, but his request did not see the light at the time. 
The central government did not comment on the calls of the Basra Council for the establishment of the province

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Reuters: Crystal anesthetic and the accumulation of prisons .. Problems worsen in Basra

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The city of Basra in southern Iraq has been battling the growing problem of drug abuse, causing overcrowding and exhausting police resources, after months of violent protests to protest domestic poor services.

Pressure on the prison system in Basra has reached the point of suffocation. One day recently, Reuters reporters at a police station saw about 150 men sitting on the ground, skinheads and burrowing into two small cells.

Over the past year, the numbers of drug traffickers and traffickers have increased sharply. Which has increased pressure on prisons and police, pointing out that the problems of local resources that were the cause of protests in Basra last summer did not disappear.

"The spread of drugs is due to unemployment," said Major Shaker Aziz of the Basra police's drug control department. Our youth are lost, they have no money, they are expelled from life.

"Prisoner Isch says? "Ninety per cent of the prisoners of drugs, after enough .. do not move them."

The situation in the prisons, exacerbated by the lack of treatment centers for addicts, highlights the contradiction between the wealth produced by the province of Basra, with oil production accounting for 90 percent of the state's revenues and poor living conditions. Basra, a city of four million people It is sometimes known as Venice of the East, but now lacks clean water and does not have enough electricity to operate air conditioning during the hot summer heat.

Unemployment is rampant in the city, especially among young people.

Thousands went out in protests over conditions, unemployment and corruption last summer when temperatures rose worse and hundreds of hospitals went into treatment after drinking contaminated water.

The protesters set fire to government buildings and political headquarters and clashed with police.

Officials fear the violence will recur this year, and although the drug problem is a source of concern in several parts of Iraq, Basra suffers more than others.

 

* Steady increase

Basra continues to suffer despite the declaration of Iraq victory in the war on the organization of the Islamic state in 2017.

Aziz said the number of detainees has increased annually since 2015. He said that by March, the drug seized by the police this year was 15 kilograms, half the amount seized last year.

He said the number of people arrested for drug crimes ranged from 50 to 60 people every week, compared to 1,000 in the previous year.

"The most common types of drugs are methamphetamine, known as crystal meth, and locally crystal," Basim Ghanem, a Basra police information officer, said. Another common species of opium is the antidote in Iraq, as well as cannabis and narcotic tablets.

Basra police say 97 percent of drug abusers arrested in 2018 are unemployed and more than two-thirds of them are 25 or younger.

"All drugs come from outside the country," said Colonel Ismail al-Maliki, who heads the anti-narcotics department of the Basra police.

Basra police chief Rashid Falih said in November that 80 percent of the drugs entering the city came from Iran. Tehran has denied that, but officials still point fingers indirectly to Iran using phrases such as "neighboring countries."

Preventing drug trafficking is a major challenge for Iran bordering Afghanistan, the world's largest producer of opium and for Pakistan, a major transit point for drugs.

In the past, Iraq had imposed the death penalty on drug abusers and traffickers but had enacted a new law in 2017 whereby judges could order treatment of abusers in rehabilitation centers or sentence them to up to three years' imprisonment.

And that there are no rehabilitation centers in prison. The law gave the Ministry of Health two years to provide rehabilitation centers.

Basra health officials have vowed to reopen a 44-bed rehabilitation center this month, but police say the number is not enough.

"All the oil in the province we sell, but there is no budget for the clinic," Aziz said.

The state-owned Basra Oil Company was asked about the situation, saying it had pledged $ 5 million to set up a rehabilitation center.

 

 

* "Smoking Free"

Inside a training complex on the outskirts of Basra, the police have re-equipped a building as a temporary rehabilitation center for use by drug abusers who are about to be released.

Some 40 men live in relatively comfortable conditions, sleeping six in each room, watching television and using a gymnasium and reading room. Religious leaders, officers and educational experts give lectures on the inviolability of drug use and its dangers.

Experts say that drug abusers who are close to recovery need treatment and rehabilitation at the beginning of their cessation of treatment, not near the end of the prison sentence. Prisoners say they suffer the worst symptoms of withdrawal within the first 20 days, unable to eat or sleep.

"This is just a model to induce health to build clinics," Ghanem said.

Police selected the prisoners interviewed by Reuters and police officers attended the interviews. Some of the prisoners were handcuffed.

One of them, a drug trafficker, said he was recruited a year after the start of the purchase and that the idea of obtaining the free crystal meth drug was what attracted him.

"I bought the gram at 50, after buying it with twenty, I sell part and smoke part, I used to smoke for free," he said.

He described a network of promoters step up to the "big dealer" who could not identify himself to the police for fear of his life. He faces imprisonment for at least five years.

Some said the police had unlawfully arrested them. A police officer was asked whether the police had been given the opportunity to issue mitigating sentences if they provided information, saying that it rarely happened.

"They always cooperate," he said, asking not to be named because he was not authorized to talk about it.

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The Times: Abdul Mahdi is seeking Iran to avoid the protests of Basra again

Political | 03:23 - 13/05/2019

 

 

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - 
Iraqi officials are seeking an urgent solution to avoid a repeat of the anger of the protests in southern Iraq, especially anger at the oil center in Basra. 
"The Iraqi government has a guarantee from the Iranian side not to repeat the scenario of last year by cutting off the carrier line of electricity and feeder to the province of Basra," the newspaper "Financial Times" quoted the director general of the Electricity Distribution Company of the south, Mohamed Abdel Amir. 
"He has a guarantee from the Iranian side not to repeat the protests of 2018 through the provision of electricity and potable water." 
Tehran closed the 400-megawatt power line from southern Iraq, exacerbating power cuts

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Oh now here is a guarantee Iraq can take to the bank 

14 minutes ago, yota691 said:

"The Iraqi government has a guarantee from the Iranian side not to repeat the scenario of last year by cutting off the carrier line of electricity and feeder to the province of Basra," the

 

Good morning Yota and DV  

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The Husseiniya threshold resolves the biggest tribal conflict in Basra that has lasted for years

Date of release: 2019/5/15 14:07 • 186 times read

Baghdad: Al-Furat News} Under the guidance of the representative of the supreme religious authority and the legal attache of the threshold of Husseiniya holy Sheikh Abdul-Mahdi Karbalai The Secretariat of the threshold of Husseiniya holy committee of elders and heads of tribes and Iraqi tribes to intervene and resolve tribal conflicts in the province of Basra ..

"A committee of 35 dignitaries, elders and tribal chiefs has been set up in the province of Basra to find a solution to the biggest tribal conflict in the province that has lasted for several years," Sheikh Fahim al-Brahimi, a representative of the holy threshold of Husseiniya, said in a statement. 
"The meeting with the commander of operations and the police chief in the province to facilitate the work and find a radical solution to this conflict, noting that" in the coming days will be an understanding with the two conflicting clans. " 
The threshold of Husseiniya had previously set up committees to identify Sunni tribes and religions according to Islamic perspective And according to the recommendations of the Supreme Yemeni reference in Najaf and its representative Sheikh Abdul Mahdi Al-Karbalai

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Well I’d fire their interior decorators for a start.

 

This tribal stuff is counterproductive...surely some see this needs to end....sadly it will take generations.

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Security forces in a state of emergency .. News of the attempt of demonstrators stormed the house of al-Basuni in Basra

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of residents of the province demonstrated in the center of Basra on Saturday, and some of them were reported to have tried to storm the home of the council's president, Sabah al-Bezouni, a local source said.

The source said that "hundreds of citizens demonstrated, Friday, in the middle of Basra province to demand improvement of the reality of the service and the fight against corruption," pointing out that "there are reports that some of these demonstrators went to the house of the President of the Council Sabah al-Bezouni and tried to storm it." 

The source, who asked not to be named, said that "the security forces deployed extensively near the house of the President of the provincial council for insurance in case of any emergency."

The government and powerful parties fear visual demonstrations that damage political deals

The parliamentary security and defense committee warned against the return of the protests to Basra, at a time when the legitimate demands, whose owners are the government and the parties, are responsible for the collapse of the situation.

"The constitution guarantees everyone the right to demonstrate legitimate rights, but the fear is that the wave of demonstrations will again be politicized and far from the legitimate rights of the citizen," said committee member Karim Alioui.

While the MP for Basra, Amer Fayez, the presence of movements to return the wave of demonstrations, similar to what happened last year.

Political books are fearful of the return of the protests, which pose a threat to their coordination with the government, especially as the slogans indicate a clear murmur from the local and federal government and from the parties and forces in force in Basra.

Activists and human rights activists say they have not seen any change in government performance or promises made by the government, including alleviating poverty, unemployment and providing services, notably electricity, water, hospitals and job opportunities for the unemployed.

Basra is witnessing a remarkable political movement that refuses to impose political wills from outside the province, while the MP from the province of Basra, a member of the alliance Sason, Rami al-Sakini, in the dialogue conducted by the "messala" that officials do not live the suffering of Basra.

"The province is run by a group of parties," he said, stressing that "the person who stole the Basra is the visual official before the federal official."

A member of the provincial council of Basra, Ali Shaddad, that the demonstrations will return to the visual street with greater momentum.

"The demonstrators in Basra have reached despair because of the slow pace in the implementation of their demands, which is headed by employment opportunities and the file of water and pollution," he said in an interview.

In a sign of weak services and desperation of the citizen, a citizen of Basra was forced to lift a "cardboard" sign in front of the local government building with a simple phrase that represented his claim: "I have the right to drink good water like humans." Its water is not suitable for human consumption.

And dozens of people turn out to go out to demonstrations in the province of Basra to demand the provision of services and job opportunities for the unemployed.

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Governor of Basra: transfer of 100 billion dollars of dollars to the operating budget

 

BAGHDAD / Masala: Asad al-Eidani, the governor of Basra, announced on Wednesday, July 10, 2019, the approval of the ministry to transfer more than 100 billion of the annual allocations of projects from the petro-dollar to the operating budget.

He said Eidani in a statement followed by "obelisk", that "he got authorization from the Ministry of Planning for the purpose of disbursement of these funds according to schedules provided by the province to the Ministry for the purpose of implementation as projects in the province."

The Eidani said that "their visit to the Ministry of Planning aims to follow up the ministry's approval of the project projects for the preservation of new projects."

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