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Basra Council collects signatures to declare the province an independent province

 

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The head of the Basra Provincial Council, the agency, Walid Kitan, on Tuesday, the Council went to collect the signatures of a number of its members in order to establish a province in Basra and send the request to the central government in Baghdad .

Kitan, in a press statement, said today, July 24, that the provincial council of Basra collected the signatures of 15 of its members in order to establish a province in Basra, and send this request to Baghdad to take its legal and constitutional, in preparation for a referendum for residents of the province in that, Life ".

He added that "the Constitution provides that one-third of the members of the provincial council a request for the establishment of the region, which means the collection of 12 signatures in Basra, but we have collected more than that number, which means we have made the most important step in this file, the position of the local government.

 Kitan added that the Council will submit the request to the Council of Ministers. After 15 days, the latter will submit the request to the Electoral Commission in preparation for setting a date for the referendum within three months . 

For his part, a member of the provincial council Mujib al-Hassani, said that the Council was to meet on Monday in its regular session, but postponed because of another meeting held in the presence of the governor of Basra, Asad al-Eidani, providing the province of a project for the region through the signatures of its members.

He explained that the Council will raise its request to the Council of Ministers, and there should be no procrastination because the project was in accordance with the constitutional provisions, and in line with the desire of the people of Basra, through demonstrations demanding a greater role for Basra and solving problems. "The transfer of Basra province is considered an important project, but we hope there will be no political will to exploit the project demonstrations to pass the project of the region, and it is better at the moment to provide basic services, such as the construction of water dam in the province, And the development of channel innovation and complete the large water project in Haritha in order to secure drinking water .
 

It is worth mentioning that the collection of signatures to declare the province of Basra an independent province, comes against the backdrop of the protests in the city, which lasted two weeks, which spread to most of the provinces of the south and center and resulted in the deaths of 14 demonstrators from their injuries and injuring 742 others, including 470 wounded in the ranks of the security forces, human rights.

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http://www.nrttv.com/AR/News.aspx?id=2648&MapID=2

Edited July 24, 2018 by Butifldrm

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Proposed "road map" to resolve the Basra crisis

 

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Al-Fadhila bloc in the province of Basra on Tuesday proposed a road map that it said would provide a solution to the current crisis in the province, which is characterized by widespread unemployment and deterioration of the service situation such as water, electricity and others.

A statement issued by the bloc on July 24, 2018 that "the crisis experienced by Basra has deep roots of deprivation for decades to solve the solutions of improvisation, but rather through a comprehensive development plan to improve its reality in various fields and provide a million jobs and to be a gateway to comprehensive development nationwide.

The statement added that the comprehensive development plan is based on the following five steps:

First: The opening of a bank account in the name of the Basra Development Fund is funded automatically and monthly by 50% of the imports of border crossings in the province of Basra and the funds in it outside the annual budget laws and separate them to ensure the continuation of financing the account away from political conflicts in parliament .

Second: Deposit in the account above one dollar for each barrel of oil produced in or issued in Basra and finances the account monthly outside the annual budget laws and separately to ensure that the funding of the account is kept away from political conflicts in parliament .

Thirdly, the amounts deposited in this account shall be allocated exclusively to the mega development projects which generate employment opportunities and new financial income for the governorate. The profits of development projects shall also be deposited in the same account above for the purpose of financing new projects .

  Fourth: All the details of the movement of funds in the above account shall be published weekly in a website dedicated to this purpose in order to be monitored by the people and the supervisory bodies in all transparency .

Fifth: To grant the local government all the necessary powers for the development of the city and the disengagement of all the departments in the province from the ministries to avoid the current chaos resulting from the dependence of the departments to ministries do not have a vision .

The statement stressed that the development projects that must be started immediately within ninety days include the following:

1 - The project of the thermal plant in FAO, which produces 3000 megawatts and one million cubic meters of fresh water daily enough for 3 million citizens for all household uses and provides 20 thousand jobs .

2- Establishing 6 desalination plants at the current pumping stations on the Shatt al-Arab to provide fresh water to Basrah, Shatt al-Arab and Abi Al-Khasib in 18 months. This will provide 10,000 jobs as well as fresh water .

3 - Completing the stages of the Greater Basrah Water Project, especially the carrier line and replacing its administration with a management that has the desire and seriousness to complete the project and does not live to extend the construction years of the project .

4 - Construction of Basra Dam, which provides a tourist environment while preserving fresh water and prevent the extension of the tongue saline to provide 10,000 jobs .

5 - Completion of the stages of the project of the Basrah irrigation channel and the extension of the irrigation water pipe network for the rehabilitation of agriculture, which will provide 30 thousand jobs .

6 - Construction of the port of Faw, which will provide 300 thousand jobs and income of more than 20 billion dollars annually .

7 - The establishment of an oil refinery in the district of the city with a capacity of 300 thousand barrels per day to meet the local need of oil products and provide 20 thousand jobs and provide an income estimated at 3 billion dollars a year . 

8 - Construction of the Nebras Petrochemicals Complex, which provides 20 thousand jobs and income of 5 billion dollars annually .

9 - Revitalizing giant factories such as fertilizer plant, iron and steel, paper, petrochemicals and others to provide income of 3 billion dollars annually .

10- Establishment of Khor Abdullah tourist resorts on the Arabian Gulf coast to provide 30 thousand jobs and receive 15 million tourists annually .

11 - Edit Basra Airport from dependence to Baghdad airport and turn it into an international transit airport managed by one of the giants in this field worldwide to provide 50 thousand jobs and income of 10 billion dollars annually .

12. Building Sustainable Palm City, which includes 100 thousand housing units and provide 100 thousand jobs .

13 - Building the new city of Basra in the Shatt al-Arab district, which includes 100 thousand housing units and provide 100 thousand jobs .

14 - Building the University of Oil and Gas in Qurna to provide 10,000 jobs .

15 - Establishment of universities Zubayr and Abi Khasib and Qurnah to provide 30 thousand jobs .

16- Development of the Shatt al-Basrah Corniche from the Airport Bridge to Al-Zubayr Bridge for a length of 10 km with buildings on both sides of not less than 20 floors to be a global trade center providing 50 thousand jobs .

17. Develop the free zone in Khor Al-Zubair to be a giant industrial city providing 100,000 jobs.

18. Development of rural areas through the construction of modern villages and the provision of agricultural technology, including the development of the net reserve in the area of ecstasy and the forest in Al-Shorash in Qurna to provide 50 thousand jobs and fill the local need of vegetables .

19 - Develop the border ports in Basra, commensurate with the counterparts in the countries of the civilized world to provide 10,000 jobs .

20 - Establishment of recycling plants to provide thousands of jobs .

http://www.nrttv.com/AR/News.aspx?id=2655&MapID=2

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Basra: 45 billion dollars of funds of the province of the government

 

 

BAGHDAD (AP) - The head of the monitoring and monitoring committee in the Basra council, Ahmed al-Sulaiti, revealed Tuesday (July 24, 2018) that the amount of money owed by the government is due to be paid to Basra, about 45 billion dollars.

"There are many funds in the hands of the federal government as debt owed to the province of Basra, the government has failed to pay, namely petrodollar allocations and border crossings and the investment budget and the development of regions since 2014," he said, noting that "the volume of funds owed by the government is payable to the province of Basra About 45 billion dollars. "

And on the request to transfer Basra to the region, said Sulaiti, "The request has completed its legal and formal conditions and will be sent by the presidency of the Council to the government within the next few hours."

Members of the Basra Council submitted a signed request from 15 members to the presidency of the Council to turn their province into a territory after the deteriorating conditions of service and the decline of the federal government to pay a lot of dues Basra at a time of continuous demonstrations.

The local official expected that "the government will deal negatively with the request to turn Basra into a region through several arguments in the forefront of the lack of an election commission and funds to cover the popular referendum," pointing out that "what we want is to pay these accumulated amounts and the establishment of one power station with the station Water desalination ".

Al-Sulaiti admitted that "the existence of the rejection and reservations by the powerful blocs in the provincial council to submit this request and the conversion of Basra to the territory," explaining that "the government's attempts to throw the ball of default in the local government network is what prompted us to adopt this request and collect signatures to transform our province into the territory" .

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Basra agrees with Baghdad on the launch of funds and the implementation of a series of projects

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Basra agrees with Baghdad on the launch of funds and the implementation of a series of projects

 

24-07-2018 02:35 PM

 

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The local authorities in Basra announced the arrival of the negotiating delegation after a meeting yesterday with representatives of service ministries and the Ministry of Planning and Finance in Baghdad to launch operational allocations for the province of Basra converted from petrodollar in accordance with the federal budget law for 2018. 

The head of the planning committee in the provincial council Nashat al-Mansouri said in a press statement that the local delegation discussed in the capital financial allocations of the province and the most important projects needed at this stage with the work team of the Federal crisis cell and that has been reached the release of funds development of the provinces and other dues of the province of federal budget funds. 

He added that it was agreed to spend the share of the province of Basra from the revenues of the border crossing points as per Article 44 (II / 7) of the law No. (21) for the year 2008 adjusted and utilization in the implementation of critical service projects such as desalination and completion of suspended projects and necessary. 

He added that the approved recommendations also included the continuation of the increase of water releases through Nazem Qal'at Salih with no less than (75 m3 / sec) with sufficient share of the irrigation channel in the Shatt al-Arab, And the completion of the other requirements for the operation of the Greater Basrah Water Project and the completion of linking the project to the network of existing pipelines and within 30 days from the date of issuance of the resolution, in addition to allocating an amount of 3 billion dinars to maintain and rehabilitate existing projects in the water sector and import Equipment required 

Al-Mansouri also pointed out the allocation of three billion dinars to complete the water project of Umm Qasr with a capacity of 1000 cubic meters / second, to settle the legal position of the project, to complete the operation requirements of the station and to allocate the required amounts to rehabilitate the station, (3000 m3 / s) in the Barda'iya area feeding the city center. 

He also pointed out that the recommendations included completing the study of the establishment of the dam on the Shatt al-Arab and determining the location and quality of the dam to prevent the entry of the salt tide when the lack of water revenues and the establishment of the seawater desalination plant (Al Faw Thermal Station) to produce electricity and water and allocate funds from the British loan. 

He added that the recommendations also included the implementation of the first stages of the comprehensive electricity plan and the allocation of $ 12 billion to implement and complete the construction of schools suspended and the implementation of the plan to build new schools, including 120 schools distributed across all areas of the province in addition to completing the projects of pipelines conveying sewage network and the establishment of new treatment plants Priority and importance of the development of the current filter stations and the establishment of desalination plants in eight sites to feed the rest of the province. 

He also pointed out that the recommendations noted the completion of infrastructure projects in Zubayr, Qurna, Medina, Deir Al-Harrah, Al-Haritha, and the uninhabited areas in Yassin Khreibat, Al-Tuba, Al-Nakheela and Al-Nafraat, and the establishment of new hospitals in the districts and districts where there is insufficient health services. The city center in the districts and areas and reduce the momentum of traffic on the streets of the Center and the required bridges and other projects and the development of border ports and rehabilitation commensurate with the volume of trade and tourism. 

And completed the follow-up of the movement of the owners of the departments of the province and the approval of grades and the issuance of new instructions for requests for appointment and provide job grades to ensure justice and the rights of the people of the province and agree to send the rest of the requirements of projects from the schemes and schedules of amounts and financial allocations to be direct and allocate amounts according to the agreed sections of And it was agreed to form a local crisis cell headed by the governor and the membership of the departments and departments concerned to monitor the stages of implementation of the plan and what it needs as well as the preparation of strategic projects and realistic solutions to all problems of the maintenance service Security and other requirements. 

Basra and other provinces have witnessed a series of demonstrations since the first week of July, demanding services and the launching of appointments, accompanied by violence that led to the death and wounding of dozens. 

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The ratification of 21 executive decisions to address the crisis in Basra

09:02 - 24/07/2018

 

 

 

Baghdad - Mawazin News 
The Council of Ministers approved 21 executive decisions to address the crisis in the province of Basra, the most important of which is the launch of operational allocations for the province converted from the petrodollar in accordance with the federal budget law of 2018. 
The Local Government Committee for Negotiating with the Federal Crisis Cell, in a statement received by Mawazine News, said that "a reference to the Council of Ministers Decision No. (269) on 17/7/2018 regarding a set of important topics in the province of Basra and based on what came In a meeting of the service crisis cell on 18/7/2018, a negotiating delegation from the province of Basra, headed by Basra Governor Asaad al-Eidani and the membership of a member of the provincial council Nashat Mansouri and directors of the Department of Accounts and Planning Section in the Office of the province.
The committee added that "the financial allocations of the governorate and the most important projects needed by the province at this stage were discussed with the working team of the Federal Crisis Cell in the capital Baghdad with the membership of representatives of service ministries and the Ministry of Planning and Finance at the headquarters of the Ministry of Planning on 23/7/2018. Cell crisis and discuss the most important needs required. " 
"The most important points were reached and agreed upon as implementing decisions approved by all concerned parties, the most important of which is the launch of the operational allocations for the province of Basra converted from the petrodollar in accordance with the federal budget law for 2018, .
"It was agreed to spend the share of the province of Basra from the revenues of the border crossing points as per article 44 (II / 7) of the law No. (21) for the year 2008 amended and benefit from the implementation of critical service projects such as desalination and completion of suspended projects and necessary, To continue to increase the water flows through Nazem Qal'at Salih by at least (75 m3 / s) with sufficient share of the irrigation channel in the Shatt al-Arab. " 
"It was agreed to increase the water connections in the Al-Bida channel at a rate of (7.5 m3 / s) and raise the excesses, and complete the other requirements of operation of the Greater Basrah Water Project and the completion of linking the project to the network of existing pipelines and within 30 days from the date of issue Resolution ", calling"
Among the decisions is the allocation of 3 billion dinars to complete the Umm Qasr water project (1,000 cubic meters / second), to settle the legal position of the project, to complete the operational requirements of the Faw station and to allocate the required amounts to rehabilitate the station, 3000 m3 / s) in the Al-Bara'iya area feeding the city center. According to the statement. 
"The decisions also included completing the study of the establishment of the dam on the Shatt al-Arab and determining the location and quality of the dam to prevent the entry of the salt tide when the lack of water revenues and the establishment of the seawater desalination plant, And the implementation of the early stages of the comprehensive electricity plan and the allocation of $ (12) billion to implement.
She added that "it was agreed to complete the construction of schools suspended and the implementation of the plan to build new schools, including 120 schools distributed across all areas of the province, and complete the projects of pipelines conveying the sewage network and the establishment of new treatment plants and priority and importance, as well as the development of the current filter stations and the establishment of desalination plants in Eight sites to feed the rest of the province. " 
The decisions also included the completion of infrastructure projects in Zubayr, Qurna, Madinah, Deir Al-Harrah, Al-Haritha, and the uninhabited areas in Yassin Khreibat, Al-Tuba, Nakhaila and Al-Nafraat districts, and the establishment of new hospitals in the districts and districts where there is insufficient health services. According to the committee's statement.
The Committee pointed out that "it was also agreed to establish the annual roads to link the city center with the districts and districts and reduce the momentum of traffic on the streets of the center and the required bridges and other projects, and the development of border crossings and rehabilitation commensurate with the volume of trade and tourism, The owners of the departments of the province and the adoption of grades and the issuance of new instructions for requests for appointment and provide grades to ensure justice and the rights of the people of the province. 
She explained that "it was agreed to send the rest of the requirements of projects from the schemes and schedules of amounts and financial allocations to be direct and the allocation of funds according to the agreed sections of the allocations of the province."
It was also agreed to form a local crisis cell headed by the governor and the membership of departments and departments concerned to monitor the stages of implementation of the plan and what it needs, as well as the preparation of strategic projects and realistic solutions to all problems of service and security and other requirements. According to the statement

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Iraqi political analyst: popular protests are the "last message" of Iraqi politicians

Pointing to a government evasion in dealing with the demands of the demonstrators ...

 

 Mohammed al-Baghdadi

 24/07/2018 - 18:11

Iraq

 

 

 

 

Iraqi political writer and analyst Iyad al-Anbar said on Tuesday that the current popular protests in the southern cities of Iraq are the last message of politicians who have not done anything to Iraqis over the past years.

"The lack of trust between the citizen and the government is the main reason for these popular protests, as is the last message of the politicians who were cut off from the Iraqi people," Anbar told Basnews. "The government has been dealing with the demands of the demonstrators so far."

"There is a real opportunity for Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi to freeze the work of the provincial councils and to remove the corrupt and underdeveloped governors," he said.

 Popular protests began in the southern city of Basra early this month to demand better services, such as electricity and water, and solutions to the deteriorating living conditions in the oil-rich city, and protest against corruption and favoritism and unemployment.

The demonstrations quickly took a violent turn and reached Nasiriyah, Diwaniyah, Karbala and Najaf in the south and spread to the capital Baghdad a few days ago. Security forces confronted the demonstrators by force, killing 13 protesters so far, wounding hundreds and arresting dozens more.

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/ar/news/iraq/454270

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Always good sense to burn, loot, pillage & destroy your own “ hood “ as well as other surrounding “ hoods “ when protesting/demonstrating while making your demands known. ( yes I know there were Iranian agitators in the mix ).

 

When folks reach the the boiling point these poor people have reached, quite honestly, I’m surprised half the country isn’t on fire and politicians aren’t hanging from street lamps. Of course it’s still early yet . . . Who knows.

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I know just a little what the folks in Basara are going through. In the last 3 days my air conditioner went out and today the electricity went off around noon. Our temps in Houston have been running around 100 with feel like numbers hitting 118 yesterday.  I don’t care how tough you think you are NO one should have to live in Tripple Digits.  No one. I got my air conditioner fixed within 24 hours and the electricity was only out about 3 hours.  If I had to go 3 weeks like the folks in Basara I would be marching too.  

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1 hour ago, Pitcher said:

I know just a little what the folks in Basara are going through. In the last 3 days my air conditioner went out and today the electricity went off around noon. Our temps in Houston have been running around 100 with feel like numbers hitting 118 yesterday.  I don’t care how tough you think you are NO one should have to live in Tripple Digits.  No one. I got my air conditioner fixed within 24 hours and the electricity was only out about 3 hours.  If I had to go 3 weeks like the folks in Basara I would be marching too.  

I have a feeling we’d be doing more than marching! 😂🤣😂🤣

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3 minutes ago, CSM (R) Thackrey said:

I have a feeling we’d be doing more than marching! 😂🤣😂🤣

 

Roger that ! ................

Semper Fi

GO RV

[jcfrag]

Lets face it, if these people had electricity right now, they would be sitting in an air conditioned room watching tv or playing with their game gear... not out in the searing heat complaining! How did Baghdad not see that one coming??? 

[Pitcher]

I know one thing for a fact. Without AC the city of Houston would be no where near the 6 million souls that live here now. 

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Iraq Orders Internet Blackout To Quell Protests

By Safehaven.com - Jul 21, 2018, 12:00 PM CDT

As southern Iraq reels from snowballing protests that threaten oil facilities at a critical political weak point, the outgoing prime minister is taking dangerous measures to stop them, including aggressive use of security forces and cutting internet access that could cost the country $40 million a day. 

The Iraqi central government has imposed a full internet shutdown across the southern provinces of Iraq, including Baghdad and oil-rich Basra in an attempt to prevent a further escalation of protests, and to make it more difficult for protest organizers to communicate. They’ve also blocked social media networks in the northern territory controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).

Mobile applications which have messaging features like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat also have been blocked.

It’s an expensive move, in more than one way.

NetBlocks.org, an internet shutdown observatory, says that this attack on the internet by the authorities could add up to losses of $40 million per day because the blackouts are affecting businesses that rely on social media for marketing and sales.

Blocking the internet, or specific social media apps, is becoming a commonplace knee-jerk reaction for the Iraqi authorities. They’ve already tested it out on school children during test time to prevent cheating by requiring all ISPs, including mobile 3G providers, to black out service for three hours per day during exam weeks.

But it’s also been used before as a security measures. It imposed blackouts in Mosul when ISIS occupied the city, and it did the same when it was having a pricing dispute with telecommunications companies in 2013.  

 

 

All told, one study says that the Iraqi government ordered 22 internet outages just in 2016. The same study says those outages, combined, cost the country over $200 million in lost economic growth.

No blackout undertaken by the Iraqi government, however, has been as intrusive as this one. This is not about ISIS, or pricing—or potentially cheating students. This is out masses of protesters who have valid grievances. They are protesting the fact that the massive oil wealth of the Basra region isn’t trickling down to the people—to the point that there is even a lack of potable water. They are also protesting the proportion of jobs handed in the oil industry to locals as opposed to foreigners.

The official unemployment rate in Iraq is 10.8 percent, but the bigger problem is that the unemployment rate for Iraq’s large youth population is double that. Nearly 59 percent of Iraq's population is under the age of 25.

Despite living in the heart of the oil industry, which accounts for 95 percent of export, residents of Basra and Iraq’s south are some of the country’s poorest. Out of some 200,000 people are employed in energy sector, 25 percent are from outside Basra, including foreigners. Protesters are demanding them to be replaced.

Even if oil production has not been impacted yet, operations at several oil fields have been affected by security concerns and international oil companies have temporarily withdrawn staff from some areas that saw protests.

As protests enter their second week and show no sign of abating, blocking the internet may hinder communications, but it will also further enrage and already engage citizenry.

Politically, this is a critical time for Iraq, which is struggling to form a new coalition government following May general elections. Now, the unrest adds more pressure to this process and cutting off businesses that could end up taking $40 million a day out of Iraq’s economic growth will only worsen the situation.

By Damir Kaletovic for Safehaven.com
https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/International/Iraq-Orders-Internet-Blackout-To-Quell-Protests.html

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4 hours ago, jcfrag said:

Lets face it, if these people had electricity right now, they would be sitting in an air conditioned room watching tv or playing with their game gear... not out in the searing heat complaining! How did Baghdad not see that one coming??? 

 

Tell ya what - let’s get there Elec-Tricity back up and running and lay some Dukes of Hazard ( they’ll forget all about them goats when they clap eyes on Daisy ), some Baywatch ( oh boy more scantily clad hotties 😞 y’all get the idea.

Whip a whole heap of good ole USA TV Programing on these folks 😎 

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A high-level executive meeting in Baghdad to discuss the implementation of government decisions on the demands of demonstrators

 

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The Ministry of Planning, on Wednesday, an executive meeting in the presence of delegations to a number of provinces and ministries competent to discuss the implementation of the decisions taken by the government on the demands of the demonstrators. 

"This meeting today is an executive meeting to transform the directives and decisions taken by the government in response to the demands of demonstrators and address the issue of services included in the investment budgets or regional development budgets," Planning Minister Salman Jumaili told a news conference on the sidelines of the meeting, .

"We are now in the last quarter of the life of the government this year and there is no parliament to approve a supplementary budget that provides allocations or sets specific allocations for the completion of these projects." 

"It is therefore decided to form a crisis cell in the ministries of planning, finance and other ministries to adapt the transfer or allocate funds and the availability of funding necessary to address priority projects that have an impact on the lives of citizens, especially in the field of water and electricity and the dismantling of bottlenecks necessary. 

Jumaili pointed out that "there are a lot of projects may be slow or where the withdrawal of work or need the necessary allocations to implement." 

He explained that "

"The challenges are very great," he said. "The protesters' demands are rights and the government has to implement them, but the implementation should pass through legal means and quick and flexible measures to respond to these demands." 

"The meeting included delegations from the provinces of Basra, Dhi Qar, Najaf and Muthanna, in addition to the relevant ministries such as electricity, education, health, water resources, agriculture, roads and bridges, to address these problems and turn decisions into reality." 

He pointed out that "there are projects in which the rate of achievement advanced and other listed on the investment budget and the development of regions as well as operational projects also all classified and developed the necessary treatment for them with regard to the adjustment of allocations and also with regard to the provision of funds."

"We are optimistic that the next few days, together with all the efforts of the federal government in Baghdad or the local governments, will turn many of these projects into concrete achievements on the ground," he concluded. 

For his part, Governor Muthanna Faleh Ziadi, "after the demonstrations that took place in the southern provinces, including Muthanna province resulted in a visit of a delegation of the people of the province to meet with the Prime Minister," noting that "the response was quick for the people of the province by the Prime Minister." 

"This real response is a good step and a blessing for the Ministry of Planning and the crisis cell in the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers," he said. 

"The response was the transfer of written and verbal approvals issued by the Prime Minister and the ministries to the procedures, as all approvals are implemented in all sectors."

"Today, the Ministry of Planning has collected all government institutions and there is a clear integration in all state institutions between the prime minister's office, the general secretariat, ministries of planning, finance, reconstruction, housing, agriculture, health, water resources and electricity." 

"All that has been approved will be translated into action on the ground," he said. 

In turn, the Deputy Minister of Planning and Finance, Maher Hammad, said that "the Ministry of Finance, like all ministries, commissioned by the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers to form a high-level crisis cell headed by the Minister and includes all concerned with executive procedures to meet the requirements of demonstrators and citizens in all provinces, .

He stressed that the Ministry of Finance "will provide all the executive mechanisms in terms of allocation and funding to restore the pulse of life to the requirements of citizens service and requirements related to employment opportunities." 

He added that "implementation will be at two levels, planning and funding and how to turn decisions into operational procedures in a legal framework through the prioritization and redrawing of outputs, as it is possible through easy numbers to move large projects and thus meet the promises made by the government in this area."

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Special .. Government of Basra: the request to transform the province into a ready-made territory and will be sent to Baghdad

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25/07/2018

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The local government in Basra, on Wednesday, that the request to transform the province into a ready-made region and will be sent to the government in Baghdad, "indicating that the request came as a pressure card on the federal government."

 

A member of the provincial council Ahmed al-Sulaiti said in a statement to the "direction" that the constitutional steps to form the region must receive the federal government request from the provincial council and transfer it to the Electoral Commission to prepare a referendum.

 

He pointed out that "the local government has seen the looming request of the region at the present time in addition to the demands of the masses protesting in order to obtain financial benefits."

 

Al-Salaiti believed that "the federal government in the present time will find justifications for the rejection of the proposal to form the province of Basra, the most important is the absence of an electoral commission because the members of the Commission on the holiday of compulsory," noting that the judges assigned not their task to hold a referendum to form regions and the current task is limited to the completion of election results and ratification on her".

 

The spokesman of the Information Office of the Prime Minister, Saad al-Hadithi, on Tuesday that "the federal government can not prevent the establishment of the province of Basra, if the mechanisms used to transform the oil-rich province, a province, does not contradict with the law and the Constitution, while the current situation requires careful consideration this project".

 

The Basra provincial council had earlier revealed the start of collecting signatures to declare the province an independent province, against the backdrop of protests in the city for more than two weeks.

 

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Al-Hadithi: The establishment of regions has constitutional mechanisms

Last updated: 25 July 2018 - 10:07 p

BAGHDAD / The spokesman for the Information Office of the Prime Minister, Saad al-Hadithi, Wednesday, that the federal government can not prevent the establishment of the province of Basra, if the mechanisms used to transform the oil-rich province, the province, do not contradict with the law and the Constitution, "Al-Hadithi said in an interview with him today that" there are constitutional and legal mechanisms regarding the establishment of regions, whether in the province of Basra or other provinces, "noting that" any step by any party based on the legal and constitutional mechanisms , And conditions are met And the government or the Council of Ministers can not stand in his way. "He added that" the situation of Basra at the present time, may be a factor in pushing the delay in putting forward such a project, "stressing that" the Council The ministers have no authority to stop the establishment of the territory if it is legal and constitutional. "The Basra provincial council had earlier revealed the start of collecting signatures to declare the province an independent province, against the backdrop of protests in the city, which lasted more than two weeks.

 

 

 

 

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Former Judge: The federal government is unwilling to apply the law of the regions

 

 

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25/07/2018

Baghdad

 

A member of the coalition of state law, Wael Abdul Latif, on Wednesday, that the federal government is unwilling to implement the law of the regions.

 

Abdul Latif said in an exclusive interview that "Article 119 of the Iraqi constitution is entitled to each province or more to form a territory to be joined by a law and was issued the law of executive procedures for the formation of Regions No. 13 of 2008."

 

He added: The region is composed of three ways, the first vote of the citizen by 2% of the population of the province and the second vote of one-third of the members of the provincial council on the proposal to transform the province into a territory.

 

The former judge pointed out that "the third method is to reduce the proportion of 2% of the total population of the province and the proportion of 10% and go directly to the referendum in view of the applicant are representatives of the province."

 

The spokesman of the Information Office of the Prime Minister, Saad al-Hadithi, on Tuesday that "the federal government can not prevent the establishment of the province of Basra, if the mechanisms used to transform the oil-rich province, a province, does not contradict with the law and the Constitution, while the current situation requires careful consideration this project".

 

The Basra provincial council had earlier revealed the start of collecting signatures to declare the province an independent province, against the backdrop of protests in the city for more than two weeks.

 

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Former deputy: Most "malls, banks and big restaurants" belong to senior state officials

Last updated: 25 July 2018 - 9:45 p

BAGHDAD / A member of the Finance Committee of the previous parliamentary session, Rahim Darraji, on Wednesday, the dominance of officials "senior" and influential in the state on private projects in Iraq. Rahim al-Darraji said in an interview today that "Iraq is free of private sector companies, and what exists is owned by senior officials and influential in the state." He added that "malls, luxury restaurants, private universities, banks and private companies are commercial facets of these personalities." He pointed out that "the influential in the country did not give the Iraqi citizen a chance to work after their acquisition of everything."

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Newspaper: Politicians appealed influential clerics in southern Iraq to intervene and prevent the expansion of the demonstrations

 

Wednesday 25 July

 

 

Alsumaria News / Baghdad The New Arab newspaper reported that a number of politicians appealed influential clerics in southern Iraq to intervene and prevent the expansion of demonstrations, while suggesting that the majority of men Grandparent declared their refusal to interfere with protests.  The newspaper quoted a source close to the government as saying that "a number of political officials have contacted with influential clerics in southern Iraq, to prevent the expansion of demonstrations to include cities and new towns," noting that "these efforts focused on trying to limit the manifestations of protest in the provincial centers of control Security ".     The source, who asked not to be named, said that "some rely on the clergy will be the link with the demonstrators in the next phase after the failure of all attempts to contact the militants, in the absence of a unified leadership of the demonstrations," noting that "the majority of the communication With them in this regard announced their refusal to intervene whether people seek to demonstrate or return to their homes and end the protest.  "The clerics considered that their demands were legitimate, but they opposed the burning and destruction operations that occupied the headquarters of parties and government departments in southern Iraq," the source said.  Since the beginning of July, the central and southern governorates of Iraq have witnessed protests demanding the provision of services such as electricity, potable water, job creation as well as the elimination of corruption, with violence and the burning of headquarters of a number of political parties.

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Chanschel: Why were all these billions hidden?

 

 Author name: Adnan Hussain
 Issue No.: 4240

 Last modified: 24/07/2018 19:44
 

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 Adnan Hussain

The spokesperson of the Prime Minister's information office, Saad al-Hadithi, May Allah Almighty announce publicly, on the first day of yesterday, that he has been "instructed" (by the Prime minister) to pay three trillion and a half trillion dinars to Basra Governorate alone, stressing that the amount disbursed is "not only for desalination but for all Disruptive projects that have come a long way, especially projects on the level of electricity, environment, health and education services  ". 
Mr. Al-Hadithi reassured us that it would not be limited to the governorate of Basra. Other governorates would have similar treatment and their share of the amounts that were insured, i.e., the disbursement of other trillions for the projects in which they were disrupted, and referred in particular to Dhi Qar Governorate (Nasiriyah) where "there are 14 A decision, part of which is the release of financial allocations, as well as the Muthanna of 19 decisions, part of which are financial allocations to the health, services, electricity and water sectors. "The amounts set aside for governorate drainage are in the context of petrodollars, regional and governorate development and the share of governorates with outlets Border by law. "
The amount allocated to Basrah Governorate is equivalent to three billion US dollars, and if the amount has already been disbursed without delay and with no consultations, manoeuvres and turns from corrupt bureaucratic organs to capturing a large proportion of it, as has been the practice with every amount earmarked or disbursed for public projects, Basra will see a significant socio-economic renaissance, as do the other governorates, which, even if they are all allocated the amount of Basra, will have positive effects on the level of electricity and water supply, as well as health, environment, education and other services and the employment of labour Broken.
The sums to be disbursed to Basra, Dhi Qar and Muthanna, and the other to be instructed later, will not, of course, come out of the prime Minister's or other state officials ' pocket. They are public funds saved from oil revenues in particular, and oil, as stated in the Constitution, is a public asset belonging to the entire Iraqi people. So the big question now is: Why did Mr. Al Abadi and his government keep all these big sums and did not, as they do now, do so to reform the collapsed public service system and improve the living conditions of the inhabitants of the governorates?. In the interest of those who have withheld such funds, they will be instructed only after the outbreak of the current popular uprising? 
We have the right, and the right of all Iraqis, to receive a clear and detailed answer to this question. We have the right to know the truth about this, and the withholding of the funds mentioned in Mr. Al-Hadithi's statement has resulted in millions of people suffering severe pain and distress over the years, as well as many victims, killed, wounded and detained in the current intifada and protest movements Previous folk. 
Who takes responsibility for all this?
The clear and detailed answer required would define responsibilities.. Sure, no hope of receiving it now.. !!

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Coordination of demonstrations in Dhi Qar calls for the removal of the governor and directors of departments, "corrupt"

Condemning the demands of peaceful demonstrators ...

 

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 25/07/2018 - 15:23

Iraq

 

 

 

The Coordination Committees for demonstrations in the province of Dhi Qar (southern Iraq) called for a large demonstration in front of the building of the province, condemning the delay exercised by the provincial council to the demands of the demonstrators.

In a statement, the committees called for the removal of the governor and directors of the "corrupt" circles and the condemnation of the delay exercised by the provincial council and governor against the demands of peaceful demonstrators.

It also called for the provision of basic services such as electricity, water, ration card, medicines, medical treatments, and other necessities.

Peaceful demonstrations took place in the southern city of Basra in early July to demand better services, such as electricity and water, and solutions to the deteriorating living conditions in the oil-rich city.

The protest spread quickly and took a violent turn and reached Maysan, Nasiriyah, Diwaniyah, Najaf and Karbala in the south. It spread to the capital Baghdad several days ago, where security forces confronted the demonstrators by force, killing 13 demonstrators since the protests began and hundreds were injured.

Thousands of people demonstrated Friday in several areas of Iraq, including Baghdad, where security forces used water cannons and tear gas to disperse the demonstrators after they tried to head to the Green Zone, where the seat of government, parliament and embassies, including US and British, are located.

Since Monday, an atmosphere of cautious calm has prevailed in the provinces and cities of southern Iraq, with a week-long deadline set by tribal sheikhs for the government to take effect.

The cities of southern Iraq have suffered from neglect throughout successive Iraqi governments, despite the oil wealth they enjoy, especially the city of Basra, which is witnessing an unprecedented deterioration in services.

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Absolute Corruption, political & religious dogma puts an icy cold grip on Everything.

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Large-scale demonstrations have been going on in several different Iraqi cities since July 8, the day that people living in the economic capital, Basra, began taking to the streets to protest against frequent water and power cuts. At least 11 people have died and dozens more have been injured in the protests.

Social media has been full of photos of these demonstrations, but beware: three of the viral images are actually false.

Protesters wearing coats in weather reaching 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit)?

Many people, including Iraqi activists and political analysts, shared this video, claiming that it showed protesters in Basra.

There are a few things about the video that would make any savvy social media consumer immediately suspicious. First of all, there is something strange about the clothes that the protesters are wearing. They are dressed for cold weather, even though it is currently 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) in Basra. Secondly, there are people clad in traditional garments that are not those of the Basra region. Clearly, it was not filmed there this summer.

 

A Saudi TV channel with 788,000 followers also relayed this false information. 

 

A vicious repression by Shiite militias?

This photo was so widely shared on social media across the Arab world that it became something akin to a symbol of these protests.

Those who shared it claimed that it showed the “violence of Shiite militias”, who were among the security forces called in to crack down on the protests.

 

 

However, a quick reverse image search on Google Images reveals that this photo was actually taken in Karbala, a city in central Iraq, in 2014. The militiamen in the photo were taking part in a military exercise meant to show off their strength.

Different people have used this photo to different ends, some claiming that it shows the strength of Shiite militias, while others claim that it demonstrates Iranian influence on Iraqi politics.

>>READ ON THE OBSERVERS: No water or electricity: why southern Iraqis are at a breaking point

 

Is the Iraqi prime minister a puppet controlled by Tehran?

Another photo that has been widely circulated shows the late Ayatollah Khomeini, a powerful Iranian Shia religious leader and politician who was a prominent figure in the revolution and later became the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic. In this group picture, there is also a young man that some social media users claim is Haider al-Abadi, who is the current Prime Minister of Iraq, and who they claim once studied under Khomeini.

It’s true that many Shiite men who are currently serving as officials in Iraq actually fought with the Iranian army when former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein attacked Iran in 1980, sparking a war that would last eight years.

But that isn’t Al-Abadi’s story. The photo, which is from 1982 according to the national archives of the Iranian Revolution, shows Khomeini with an official from the Revolutionary Guards after the victory over the Iraqi army.
 

 

Moreover, Al-Abadi was studying in England during the early 1980s. 

This kind of rumour isn’t surprising. Iran has a strong influence in Iraq, especially through the powerful Shiite militia.

 

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