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Iranian role in dominating the Iraqi economy


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Researcher Shatha Khalil *

Successive crises facing the Iraqi economy, especially after 2003, and Iraq's dependence almost entirely on the rentier oil economy, but .. The most important in this article is to highlight the Iranian role in the acquisition and control by all means and methods on the Iraqi economy, and will be presented in detail.
More than 14.8 million unemployed Iraqi citizens:
"Independent Arab" that the Iraqi citizen suffers from many economic crises, although Iraq has huge oil reserves, these crises were widespread poverty, increased unemployment, high inflation, and corruption Unlike the inability of the Iraqi government to confront Iranian militias, which have turned Iraq into a battleground that should have been on Iranian rather than Iraqi territory.
According to the latest census conducted by the Central Statistical Organization in Baghdad in August, the unemployment rate among young people in Iraq was 22.6%. The Iraqi organization "Al-Nama" estimated the percentage of unemployed women by more than 80%.
The International Monetary Fund announced in May 2018 that the youth unemployment rate in Iraq was more than 40% of the population of 37 million, according to the latest statistics announced by the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation of Iraq at the end of December First, 14.8 million Iraqis are queuing for the unemployed.
Iraqis suffer from unemployment .. Iranian labor is working on its territory!
At the expense of the subsistence of the poor Iraqi citizen, the high unemployment and the deterioration of social and health conditions, we note the high number of Iranian workers in Iraq noticeably after the "deterioration of economic conditions inside Iran, because of the collapse of the Iranian currency against the US dollar, as a result of Washington sanctions, which led them to come to Iraq from The monthly salary is about US $ 200.
The recent influx of Iranian labor is further exacerbating the labor crisis in Iraq, as well as the country's high unemployment rate.
This is because Iranians compete with Iraqis for jobs because they accept very low wages, which has led them to be preferred over the country by the owners of factories, companies and shops.
Naseer al-Saadi, director of a factory for plastic industries in the Waziriya region in central Baghdad: "Iraq is living in difficult economic conditions no less than that of Iran under the embargo."
The reason is due to rampant corruption in state institutions, and the absence of planning that led to the deterioration of the private sector, which significantly affected the working class in Iraq, and most of the owners of factories, companies and shops suffer from lack of liquidity and lack of sales, because of the control of imported goods on the Iraqi market, what It led them to favor foreign labor over Iraqi labor.
Saadi stressed that the reason for this preference is due to the difference in daily wages, which amount to less than half compared to local workers, with the provision of large services beyond what the Iraqi worker, pointing out that he laid off 12 workers from the country and replaced them with Iranians.
"I am married with five children," said Hussein al-Aboudi. "I was discharged from the factory where I was working. I am working with hundreds of Iraqis to replace us with Iranian workers. Who is protecting our rights on our land?"
If the Iranian expatriate to Iraq has been suffering and difficult living conditions in his country, the Iraqis have much more difficult circumstances, and the suffering of the working class in the southern areas of the country for years because of foreign labor, but the recent entry of large numbers of Iranians has made matters worse .. Where censorship and where Country? Do you prefer the Iranian over the son of the country ?!
"Why is the Iraqi citizen subjected to insults and assaults that amount to death when he goes to Iran, while the Iranian citizen in Iraq receives so much attention to his preference over local citizens?" Who is responsible for this preference and who is responsible for the dignity of the Iraqi abroad?
Adnan al-Anbaki, a worker at the Spring Food Products Company, added: “The expatriate Iranians are competing with Iraqis for their livelihoods because of the low wages they receive.”
Some employers confirmed that they had laid off a number of Iraqi and foreign workers from other countries to be replaced by workers from Iran.
Iran is making efforts to consolidate its influence in all directions and in all ways to penetrate and control Iraq's economic, political and even social joints.

The negative role played by Iran on the socio-economic side is evident in the following points :
 Acquisition of markets and economic investments in Iraq.
 Control of investment and service projects, especially in areas where military operations against ISIS have taken place. The large-scale destruction of these cities has provided millions of dollars to Iranian companies, and armed militias belonging to the Popular Mobilization have taken control of the area, whose main task is to entrust reconstruction. In these cities, Iranian companies will have a future, as Iranian companies will seek to acquire the bulk of reconstruction contracts and deals.
 Rehabilitate and entrench businessmen loyal to it, in order to enhance Iran's economic influence in the Iraqi economy.
 Oil: Control of oil export operations, especially in wells spread along the Iraqi-Iranian border, where the oil reserves reach more than 100 billion barrels, especially in light of the Iraqi governments ignored after 2003, where Iraq has about 12 oil wells active and shared with The Iranian export rate of these fields reaches more than 400 thousand barrels per day before the entry of the third package of U.S. sanctions on Iran, under which the Iranian energy supplies were zeroed in May 2019, and most of the common oil fields are under absolute Iranian control. Oh who bear touch And why the country 's wealth management?
الكثير Many economists point out that the total depletion of Iraqi oil fields shared with Iran up to 35 billion dollars a year, note that previous reports have shown that Iran is depleting up to 17 billion dollars.
 Make most of the Iraqi banks linked in one way or another to the Iranian banks scattered in several Iraqi cities, in order to impose economic custody of the stock market, and take advantage of surplus hard currency and smuggling to Iran.
 On the level of oil exports, Iran was able after the systematic destruction of oil refineries in the Iraqi city of Salah al-Din, during its liberation operations from ISIS and in cooperation with its armed groups, to increase oil exports to Iraq from 30% to 50% at the beginning of 2018 .
ü Iranian dream, seeking Iran to achieve economic dream on the shoulders of the Iraqis, by linking its military actions taking place on the ground economic to its objectives, through its goal of access to the Mediterranean Sea, by extending a pipeline to export Iranian gas to Europe via Iraqi territory through Mouna It s Syrian under its control, and from Tartous to Europe.
 Push for the expulsion of all foreign capital deployed on the Iraqi arena, through threats and extortion by armed militias deployed there.
Iranian circumvention of international sanctions through the Iraqi economic portal:
Iran seeks to employ most of the Iraqi government legislation on the laws of import and export, through the certificate of origin, without taking samples of imported goods and examined in the centers of measurement and quality control, and this led to a large accumulation of goods On the border with Iraq, Iran flooded the Iraqi market with all its products, and the dominance of Iranian goods was not limited to the areas of Baghdad and southern Iraq, but also to the northern areas, which was witnessing a remarkable Turkish economic presence Of pre - emergence of al Daesh.
At the level of services sector, the rate of Iraq's import of electric power from Iran to $ 6 billion annually, while the transport and communications sector, shows the dominance of Iran in terms of land and air flights, where the Iranian land transport companies dominate the overall land transport operations between the two countries Air transport shows clear control of Iran Air, with the average daily flights between Iraq and Iran to 120 daily, and Iraq receives only 30% of transport revenue, while the rest goes to the Iranian Treasury.
Religious Tourism in Iraq:
Iranian-owned tourism companies invested heavily in managing the ceremonies of the visit to Karbala and Najaf, to ensure that Iranian visitors spent less than any other visitor, and investment from the Iranian private sector was encouraged in the two holy cities, such as building hotels, thus becoming actors in the two cities. Iran has sought to push many of its businessmen to dominate large-scale projects in the cities of Karbala and Najaf, later to be a lever for any compromise on its influence. In Iraq, in 2016, nearly half a million Iranians entered Iraq during the Ashura ceremony in Karbala without visas. This situation was repeated in the years that followed, as well as the introduction of many smuggled goods, in order to undermine the growth process in these two. The two cities.
In addition to transportation to and from Iraq, the Iranian visitor to Iraq is keen not to leak its local Iranian currency in Iraq, especially as Iranian consulates located in the holy places, play a key role in the implementation of these programs.
A water crisis in Iraq:
Iran has changed the course of the Karun River opposite the Iraqi side, which is loaded with a lot of oil waste, waste of puncture projects and others, which led to the death of millions of palm trees, and after Iraq was producing three quarters of the total date crop in the world, is now coming After Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia in the ranking of producing countries, because of the severe decline in the production of dates, due to Iranian policies, as well as the loss of Iraq to much of its fisheries, to impose Iran's hand on these sectors as well.
Iran imposes its economic hegemony on Iraq, in order to strengthen its economic influence, and Iran from time to time through its supporters in Iraq, to call for a boycott of Arab and foreign goods in the Iraqi market, although scarce, in addition to the liquidation of many wholesalers who do not deal With Iranian companies, or at least do not import Iranian goods, in order to create a trading class that deals only with the Iranian market and companies.
This leads to the conclusion that the Iranian economy swallowed the Iraqi economy, through the entry of Iranian companies and investors to Iraq, and became the words "Sakhet Iran" and means "Made in Iran" is the most common and famous among the products in the Iraqi market, a phrase that Iran seeks to make the only brand Dominant and controlling the Iraqi market.

Economic Studies Unit

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No wonder the citizens are in an outrage.  The GOI, businesses, and political groups must change it's mindset and policies - and restore the rights of Iraqis to work over the Iranians, take back control of their industries, and make every effort to remove Iranian influences. I realize it is easier said than done, but the Shia led GOI has allowed this to happen (started under Maliki) and must be held responsible. The people's demands are just, and the leadership in every area must respond - for the good of Iraq and it's people..!

 

We can help by praying for God to move, change hearts and minds away from greed for the benefit of the people, to politically make decisions that benefit Iraq and restores it's business and economic sectors. For leaders in government and business to put Iraq first, and remove Iranian influencers. Grand Ayatolla Sistani should step in on behalf of the Iraqi people. It's a spiritual & economic war. JMHO..! :salute:

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GOI better be mindful of the young Iraqi. These young people didn’t know life under Saddam but grew up with  a government ripe in corruption and lack of a prosperous future. Could leave an opportunity for a new Revolutionary leader to emerge and come to power by promising all who joins with him in battle a better future . I may be way off and history just may repeat itself. Let’s hope that’s it’s  not the case but power and greed seem to be a great motivator. My advice for the GOI would be wake up and do the right thing or lose everything.

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