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From the scene of the sit-in .. Five candidates to succeed Abdul-Mahdi and the collapse of the agreement to assign the Sudanese

2019-12-14

 

 

Somebody Wake Up Weegie And The Gurus - Shabbi’s Hat Has Been Thrown Into The Ring !  

 

     

 

 

The Security Council condemns the crimes of the militias of Iraq and the revolutionaries present their candidates to succeed Abdul-Mahdi

 
Sunday 15 December 2019

 

Baghdad - Writings

The Security Council issued a statement condemning the armed militias' continued violent approach against the Iraqis

The Council, in a statement on the evening of Saturday, December 14, 2019, expressed concern about the involvement of armed groups in the killings and kidnappings of demonstrators and activists in Iraq

On the other hand, after continuous discussions for several days in the arenas of demonstrations and sit-ins, the Iraqi revolutionaries announced a list of 3 names for their nomination to head the government to restore the homeland from Iranian hegemony to succeed the resigned Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi

The list included retired Lieutenant-General Abdul-Ghani Al-Asadi, who fought and defeated terrorism, the impartial judge, Rahim al-Aqili, and senior economist Sinan Shabibi

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Member of Parliamentary Finance: The current government is able to send the budget to Parliament

11:57 - 15/12/2019

 

Member of Parliamentary Finance Committee Ahmed Hama revealed, on Sunday, the completion of the draft budget law for 2020, indicating that the government is able to send the budget according to a previous letter from the Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers.

Hama said in a statement to "Information" that "the draft 2020 budget has been completed by the government and is ready to send at any time to the House of Representatives."

He added that "the caretaker government is not able to send the budget, but the current government is able to send the budget based on a book before the government’s resignation issued by the Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers indicating the formation of committees and sending the budget to Parliament."

Hama explained that "the budget of 2020 is summarized by relying on 162 trillion dinars, with an estimated deficit of 48 trillion dinars, and adopting a price ranging from 50 to 56 dollars per barrel."

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Close to him: the Sudanese will lose the premiership competition because of his conditions

 

 

 

14:18 - 15/12/2019

 

A source close to the candidate for the presidency of the next government, Muhammad Shia'a Al-Sudani, revealed on Sunday that the political blocs rejected the conditions of the Sudanese to take over the next government, indicating that the blocs categorically refused to form a supreme court to hold corrupt people accountable and not grant them any entitlement to the government.

The source said to the "information" that "the candidate for prime minister, Mohamed Shi'a Al-Sudani, informed the political blocs of his conditions for taking over the next government and the most important paragraphs of his next program."

He added that "the political blocs objected to some conditions, including the formation of the Supreme Court to fight corruption and bring in smuggled money abroad, as well as his refusal to receive any candidate from the political blocs as ministers in his government."

The source explained that "the Sudanese insistence on holding the whales of corruption and dinosaurs of the political process accountable may lose him the opportunity to be assigned to head an interim government." 

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The Sudanese office expects to lose the opportunity to run for prime minister because of whales of corruption

 

15th December, 2019

 

The office of Deputy Muhammad Shia'a Al-Sudani, who news leaks indicate is the candidate for prime minister, confirmed that Al-Sudani’s insistence on holding the whales of corruption and dinosaurs of the political process may lose him the opportunity to be assigned to head an interim government.

The Sudanese office added in a statement received to the obelisk, that there are major differences regarding the dangerous statements made by the Sudanese, especially the establishment of the corrupt court.

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Al-Khaldi: 150 official signatures submitted in favor of an independent candidacy

20:00 - 14/12/2019

 

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On Saturday, the MP from the Bayraq al-Khair bloc, Muhammad al-Khalidi, confirmed that the President of the Republic officially handed 150 signatures for the candidacy of a personality to the Prime Minister, indicating that three names that have completed their CVs will be submitted to Barham Saleh to choose one of them.
Al-Khaldi said to / "Information" that "the number of deputies supporting the nomination of a prime minister acceptable to the demonstrators reached 180 deputies from the Bairaq Al-Khair blocs, the Forces Union, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, and the coalition of victory and wisdom."

He added that "the number of signatories present a fee on the nomination document for the President of the Republic has reached 150 signatures," noting that "the document was handed over to Barham Salih for approval."

He explained that "Muhammad Shia'a Al-Sudani was formally rejected by the demonstrators, which means that he was formally rejected by the 150 representatives," noting that "the President of the Republic informed the Nob that he was in favor of putting forward a personality who was acceptable to the demonstrators and independent."

He continued, "The signed representatives have completed the CVs of three candidates and will be handed over to Barham Saleh and leave the option for him to choose one of them," stressing that "the names are not disclosed except by the President of the Republic for the nominated person." Ended 25 and

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The decline of Iranian influence in Iraq ... is a fait accompli

 

 

15th December, 2019

 

Mahdi Aqabi, a member of the National Council of the Iranian Resistance, said: The plans of the Iranian regime in Iraq ended in failure, although last Thursday they carried out attacks and campaigns of slaughter and killing, with the aim of eliminating the uprising of the Iraqi people.

"My order" explained that this plot was exposed and foiled by the uprising youths, as well as the formation of a counter-demonstration, noting that the regime mobilized its agents again, and carried out an attack on Saturday in an armed and brutal way that uprooted the more.

He pointed out that "the agents of the regime attacked their personal cars, and with their weapons some brutal gathering centers for the uprisings, including the Khellani Square, which is the second largest square for the gathering of the people and the uprisings after the liberation square. The attack on Tahrir Square continues."

"My campaign was very brutal," he said. "The people were targeted with live bullets, and it seems that this attack wanted to engage with the uprising people, after which the police forces would enter, be stationed in crowd gathering places, and gather these protest gatherings."

According to news media reports, this brutal attack killed 25 people and wounded more than 150 uprisings, but with the resistance, persistence, and steadfastness of the people, agents of the mullahs' regime in Iraq actually failed to fully implement the plan, and to quell the uprising.

A member of the National Council of the Iranian Resistance pointed out that "these crazy attacks of the regime and its agents may be repeated, and confirmed that the goal of these attacks has not been achieved, due to the fact that the uprisings were determined based on persistence and persistence, and they also published a statement in which they revealed the names of the associated gangs Mullahs regime, which participated in this brutal attack. "

He emphasized that "this crime and the massacre that took place led to the intensification of the intifada and its reaching to its climax on the one hand, and it gained the uprisings, whose number increased greatly to greater popularity on the other hand, as the people of other governorates expressed their solidarity with them." “My brutal attack was followed by the issuance of domestic and international condemnations, where the President of the Republic and the President of the Iraqi Parliament were forced to condemn the attack,” Amnesty International said. "In this way, the Iraqi people's uprising did not weaken or diminish, but rather increased its frequency, and massive and millions of demonstrations were held on the tenth of December, as a show of the strength, expansion, spread, and depth of this uprising, and a strong punch was directed at the mouth of the regime and its mercenary agents in Iraq." 

A member of the National Council of Resistance stressed that the events of the past days in Iraq once again demonstrated the end of the Iranian regime’s influence in Iraq, which the Mullahs' regime once took as an arena and a backyard for it.

He commented: "This is the Iraqi people who are proudly and courageously seeking to expel the mullahs in advance of the most expensive price for that, and, God willing, it will not be long until the peoples of the region, hand in hand with the Iranian people, are able to eliminate this criminal system."

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Parliamentary Economy: The current situation will compel the foreign investor not to go to Iraq

 

 

 

08:33 - 15/12/2019

 

 

The Parliamentary Economy and Investment Committee indicated on Sunday that the current situation will keep any foreign investor from coming to Iraq, pointing at the same time that Iraq represents a very good investment opportunity for foreign companies when conditions stabilize and calm returns.

Committee member Nada Shaker Joudeh said in a statement to "Information", that "foreign companies operating in Iraq are operating normally according to the contracts and agreements concluded with them."

She added that "the current situation is confusing, which leads foreign investors to refrain at the moment from introducing their companies to Iraq and investing in it, because the capital (cowardly)."

She indicated that "Iraq represents a good investment opportunity that pushes everyone to compete to get the opportunity to work within it, so some countries entered into a conflict, especially America and China, and therefore Iraq possesses all points of attraction for investment companies, but this requires stability of conditions."

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Temporary budget

 

Sunday 15 December 2019

 

Mohammed Sharif Abu Maysam

 

In the sixth content - 3 - of the Financial Management and Public Debt Law No. 95 of 2004, which was enlisted in the instruments of foreclosure, there was no reference to the operation of the final financial statements for the previous year in the event that the budget bill was not passed, and this is what was formed for the government in 2014 when it spent outside The condition of spending at a rate of 1 to 12 of the actual allocations for the previous fiscal year after the approval of the budget law was suspended in that year, and the work of the government apparatus has been lagging throughout the years of political tensions that were withdrawn on the timing of approving the budget in accordance with paragraph -4- of the same content, which was authorized by the Minister of Finance To be certified Funds of spending units at a rate of 1/12 pending the approval of the new budget, provided that this percentage is used to pay (obligations, salaries, pensions, social security expenditures and debt services) only.

The matter hindered for years all sincere attempts to implement projects due to the political, bureaucratic and corruption tensions that this law and other foundations were established by the civil ruler, Paul Bremer, until the Financial Management Law No. 6 of 2019 came late on the fifth of last August, which was authorized by the Minister Finance in Article 13 - Issuing generalizations whereby spending is made at a rate (1/12) of the total actual expenditures for current expenditures for the previous fiscal year, after excluding non-recurrent expenditures on a monthly basis and until the budget is approved, along with spending from the total annual allocation of investment projects The ongoing Maria and whose allocations are listed during the previous and subsequent fiscal year according to the completed phases or the actual preparation of the project, while he considered the final financial statements for the previous year as the basis for the financial statements for this year once they are submitted to the House of Representatives for the purpose of approval.

What will make the matter easy for the current parliament and the new government after the termination of the caretaker government, which was able to present the important laws in the first week of caretaking according to what was reported by the Parliamentary Finance Committee, while hinting at the adoption of the so-called temporary budget. This type of budgets is either in the form of certification of certain expenditures without revenue, or it takes the form of approval of comprehensive monthly budgets for expenditures and revenues together, for an effective period of time that does not exceed one or two months. Provided that the appropriations approved in the interim budgets are deducted from the amount of appropriations that will be approved in the new budget.

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After 11 days, Saleh asks for a "bigger bloc" to assign a prime minister and kill the Sudanese ambition for the position ... a document

2019-12-15

 

Today, Sunday, Iraq obtained a document that included a request by the President of the Republic to the House of Representatives to determine the largest bloc from which the Prime Minister emanates, according to the interpretation of the Federal Court, which said last November that its decisions related to the largest bloc remained the same.

 

Constitutional binding

Although 11 days have passed since the resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, the President’s letter was not sent to Parliament except today, that is, at the end of the period specified by Article 76 of the Constitution, which relates to the selection of a new Prime Minister within 15 days of the resignation of the Prime Minister.

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Shortly after Abdel-Mahdi announced his resignation, the Sawyroun Bloc, with its head Nabil El-Tarfy submitted a book to Barham Saleh, which included giving up its right to specify a prime minister and present it to the President of the Republic as the largest bloc.

The role of the demonstrators

Yesterday, the President of the Reform Alliance, Sabah Al-Saadi, the leader of the Saeron Bloc, sent a message to the President of the Republic, which contained a request not to nominate any person to succeed Abdul-Mahdi without consulting the demonstrators.

Nominations

In the meantime, the Presidency of the Council of Representatives and the parliamentary forces demand that they be informed by the President of the Republic of the nature of the meetings that he conducted during the past days that followed the resignation of Abdel-Mahdi, as well as the nature of the nominations made by the demonstrators in the protest arenas and the disclosure of names.

Decisive meeting

Prior to the publication of the book of the President of the Republic addressed to the House of Representatives, political sources revealed a meeting to be held tonight that includes both Nuri al-Maliki, head of the State of Law coalition, Hadi al-Amiri, head of the Fateh Alliance, as well as Abu Mahdi, engineer Nai, head of the Popular Mobilization Authority, and a number of leaders of the Construction Alliance to resolve the selection of a presidential candidate Council of Ministers ".

Pull the filter

Observers consider that the submission of the President of the Republic to the book inquiring about the largest parliamentary bloc came as the killing of the nomination of Mohamed Shiaa Al-Sudani, whose name witnessed a wide circulation to succeed Abdul-Mahdi in the past two days, especially as he resigned via Twitter from the Dawa Party and the State of Law coalition, which won with him the last elections to be a deputy after he He held several ministerial positions in past governments, which was rejected by the demonstrators in the protest arenas because of his affiliation with the Dawa Party first and holding executive positions second.

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Parliamentary Finance: Next year's budget will be about 162 trillion dinars

 

Sunday 15 December 2019

 

 

Baghdad / Al-Sabah

 

 

The Parliamentary Finance Committee revealed that the government resorted to implementing a temporary budget for the first three months of the next fiscal year, and while it suggested that the budget for the year 2020 would reach about 162 trillion dinars and a financial deficit of more than 48 trillion dinars, the economist Bassem Antoan warned of the government's resort to external borrowing To pay off the budget deficit, stressing the need to activate the private sector to absorb millions of unemployed people

The decision of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, MP Ahmad Al-Saffar, said in an interview with Al-Sabah: “The Financial Management Law obliges the government to send the budget bill to Parliament on October 10 of every year, but next year’s budget has been delayed due to what the country is witnessing. From the rapid demonstrations and events that led to the resignation of the government and the transformation of the government into a caretaker, ”pointing out that the current Prime Minister stated that his government is caretaker and he is not entitled to send bills to Parliament, but only to conduct the daily affairs of the state.

 

Budget completed

He added, "The government is proceeding with implementing a temporary budget, as happens every year by applying the budget at a rate of 1/12 for the first three months of next year, but it includes operational spending only without investment or job grades, contracts, etc. Only the conduct of business until the budget is complete,"pointing out that the Secretariat The Council of Ministers formed a committee to review the budget and it can be discussed under the chairmanship of the President of the Republic and send it to Parliament as soon as possible.

He pointed out that «the Finance Committee needs time from 40 days to 45 days to discuss the budget and in all cases, the budget will be delayed until the second month of next year at the very least and be implemented, perhaps in the third or fourth month of the next year».

 

Investment expenses

Regarding the size of the 2020 budget, Al-Saffar said: “During our contact with some members of the budget committee headed by the Council of Ministers, they assured us that the budget is estimated at 162 trillion dinars in general expenses, and revenues amount to 114 trillion dinars, meaning that there is a large deficit.” 

He explained that «the proportion of investment expenditures each year ranges between 25 to 30 percent, but in the budget for the next year will differ, despite the operating expenses that began to expand at the expense of investment in each year due to increased expenditures, especially job grades and the launch of financial grants for the unemployed and housing projects, etc.», Stressing that the 2020 budget will not differ much from its previous budget budgets.

 

External lending

For his part, the economist, Bassem Jameel, warned of the government's resort to external or internal borrowing in paying the budget deficit, calling for the necessity of activating the private sector to absorb millions of unemployed people and provide the budget with additional funds.

He said in an interview with "Al-Sabah": "There is a mistake in the composition of the budget, so that it is an operational par excellence, as it reaches 75 percent and 25 percent is an investment that is not usually implemented," pointing out that the defect lies in the fact that the state limits job opportunities to government jobs.

 

Increase employment

He pointed out that "the state is packed with a surplus of more than 3 times its need for employees. Unemployment cannot be addressed by increasing employment, but it can resort to the private sector to absorb the millions of unemployed and the budget will be supplemented with additional funds."

He added that «the private sector has about 8 million members, if the productive sectors such as industrial, agricultural and tourism are activated, it will occupy double numbers of the unemployed about job".

He explained that «one of the treatments recorded in the budget to pay the deficit is resorting to borrowing and this is a big mistake, it is not possible to increase debts, because that has great burdens and dangerous consequences for the Iraqi economy because the loans are conditional on political terms Harm the country. ”

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Al-Fatlawi: Parliamentary moves to find a legal way out that enables the caretaker government to vote on the budget

 

 

 

16:55 - 15/12/2019

 

 

On Sunday, the MP from the Al-Fateh Alliance Fadel Al-Fatlawi revealed that he was moving to find a legal way for the caretaker government to vote on the budget and send it to the Council to pass it.

Al-Fatlawi said to "Information" that "if the budget is postponed to the new government after its formation and then sent to parliament, the matter will be complicated greatly, which will delay it until 2020."

He added that "there are parliamentary movements in cooperation with the legal authorities and the Federal Court to find a legal way for the caretaker government to vote on the budget and send it to the House of Representatives."

He explained that "the legal procedure is to consider the budget among the daily matters that the caretaker government can manage as it includes salaries and other necessary things."

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The facts publish the details of the new Iraqi retirement law

 

 

16th December, 2019

The Iraqi Official Gazette newspaper published the new amendment to the Unified Retirement Law No. 9 of 2014 according to Law No. 26 of 2019, including the most important amendments are as follows:

1- Forced assignment of retirement in two cases
* Completion of 60 years of age regardless of the service
* Resolution An official medical committee concerned with the non-validity of the service
excludes the following: -
- Holders of the scientific title professor and assistant professor who are covered by the University Service Law 63 years
- Doctors forensic medicine, psychiatry - anesthesia 63 years
- Advisors and consultants assisting in the State Shura Council 63 years
- covered by the Chapter Law Politician, martyrs' families, 65 years old
- Pilots Civil servants currently 63 years old

2- Optional retirement age 45 years with 15 years service

3- No dismissal, dismissal, or leaving the service shall be prohibited from pension rights if the age of service and age are available, and 75% of the minimum salary is due.

4 - No accumulation of pension before the fulfillment of the service and age requirement.

5 - The end-of-service gratuity is paid to the retired person who has a service of not less than 25 years. The last salary is    calculated in 12

6- The end-of-service gratuity is paid to the heirs of the deceased after 1-1-2014.

7- The political dismissal deserves the pension, even if he is not appointed after the payment of pension
arrears if the conditions are met. 

8- The provisions of the law apply to contracts after the payment of pension arrears 50 years of age 75% of the retirement pension

9- The retired pensioner is entitled to retirement on the basis of the salary On which it was reassigned.

10- The retirement age does not apply to judges and military personnel

11- It is permissible only for political prisoners, martyrs and victims of terrorism to combine the retirement salary with another salary.

12- Previously referred retirees whose salary is recalculated in accordance with this law. 

This law is effective from 12/31/2019.

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Deputies expected that Barham Saleh will serve as the Prime Minister of Iraq

 

 

16th December, 2019

Representatives expected the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, to receive the prime minister’s mission, in addition to his primary job, after the end of the constitutional period assigned to assign a certain person to take over the prime minister’s tasks without reaching solutions.

"There is nothing yet on the political scene, and there is only what is being discussed in the media regarding the nomination of a person to take over as prime minister after the resignation of the Prime Minister,"Member of Parliament Abbas Al-Sirout said in a statement carried by the semi-official newspaper "Al-Sabah" in its Monday edition. Adel Abdul-Mahdi from his position.

He added, "Any person who is running now finds objections, whether from the political blocs or from the demonstrators, which leads to withdrawing her candidacy and replacing her with another, knowing that everyone who nominates is professional and clean his job record while he holds positions in the provinces where he worked or ministries."

And Sarout expected that "the president of the republic will replace a prime minister in addition to his job to end the constitutional period without reaching solutions on a personal nomination for this position, despite the constitutional problems that will emerge after that."

 

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A parliamentarian expects Saleh to be prime minister

 

 

 

12/16/2019 11:18

 

 

Expectations indicated that the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, will receive the prime minister’s job, in addition to his primary job, after the end of the constitutional period assigned to assign a certain person to take over the prime minister’s tasks without reaching solutions.

 

"There is nothing yet on the political scene, and there is only what is being discussed in the media regarding the nomination of a person to take over as prime minister after the resignation of the Prime Minister," Member of Parliament Abbas Al-Sirout said in a statement carried by the semi-official newspaper "Al-Sabah" in its Monday edition. Adel Abdul-Mahdi from his position.

He added, "Any person who is running now finds objections, whether from the political blocs or from the demonstrators, which leads to withdrawing her candidacy and replacing her with another, knowing that everyone who nominates is professional and clean his job record while he holds positions in the provinces where he worked or ministries."

And Sarout expected that "the president of the republic will replace a prime minister in addition to his job to end the constitutional period without reaching solutions on a personal nomination for this position, despite the constitutional problems that will emerge after that."

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Abdul Mahdi's office: The government will hand over its work duties to the President of the Republic next Thursday

 

19:03 - 12/15/2019

 

On Sunday, the media office of the resigned prime minister announced the handing over of the work of the government to the president of the republic next Thursday in the event that a candidate for the next government is not agreed in accordance with the constitution.

The media office spokesman, William Warda, said to "Information" that "the next cabinet session will be held naturally, as it is within the legal constitutional deadlines."

He added that "the constitutional period for the caretaker government ends next Thursday," noting that "in case there is no agreement on a candidate to head the next government, the government is legally obliged to hand over the functions of the cabinet to the President of the Republic, Barham Salih."

On Sunday, the President of the Republic addressed the House of Representatives, asking them to name the largest bloc to present its candidate. 

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Al-Rafidain launches a new batch of those covered by the advances of 25 million to state employees

 

16th December 2019

 

On Monday, the Rafidain Bank launched a new batch of those covered by the state employees ’advance, which ranges between (5, 10, 15, 20, 25) million dinars through the international MasterCard

The media office of the bank said in a statement seen by "Al-Iqtisad News", that "a new payment has been disbursed from the predecessors of state employees to more than 6000 thousand employees whose salaries have been localized with the bank and obtained an electronic card

The statement added that "that advance was disbursed by the customer's fingerprint and then the employee was informed by sending a text message informing him of granting the advance, after he had completed all legal procedures to grant it to him and disbursed through electronic payment tools to which the financial balance has been filled

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Al-Rafidain launches a new batch of those covered by the advances of 25 million to state employees  

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Deputy: Today's session may witness a vote on the Prime Minister candidate

 

 

 

09:16 - 16/12/2019

 

 

On Monday, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) deputy, Diyar Barwari, voted to vote on the prime minister's candidate during the parliament's scheduled session today, while confirming that there were differences between the demonstrators over the candidate's personality.

"The hope is that there will be a session (today, Monday) to vote on the candidate for prime minister, but the letter of assignment has not yet reached Parliament," the official Al-Sabah newspaper quoted Brauri as saying, noting that "the Kurdish position is always known in the nomination of a person The next prime minister, who is observing and awaiting the position of the majority of the person holding this position.

He added, "The most prominent specification of the next prime minister is to be a good administrator who tries to reduce red tape and corruption in state institutions, and has a long history in the economic field due to the sensitivity of the next stage in which Iraq will pass and in which there will be pressure on the state budget, in addition to his diplomacy to some extent so that Satisfies the politicians in the political blocs and try to win the sympathy of the street.

Barwari pointed out that "the political blocs must take into account that the choice of the next prime minister will be for a transitional and experimental period, and for this it is preferable not to be a known political face and to be independent and businessmen, because the state administration currently needs people who lead the stage", stressing "there is a difference in the ranks The masses present in the street are similar to the difference in political forces regarding the nomination of a certain personality that could lead Iraq during the next stage to safety, so that the basic evaluation of the personality that is nominated will result in the results of its work. 

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Qassem Soleimani ... the inevitability of leaving Iraq

 

- 5 Hours Ago

 

The Iranian campaign to crush the Iraqi October uprising continued, as the continuation of the political regime in Baghdad constituted the end of the political system, and killing and kidnapping the youth was the only option carried out by the militias loyal to Tehran. The documented death toll, which recently announced 473 martyrs, about 22,000 wounded, of whom 3,900 were handicapped, and about 12 kidnapped, unknown fate.

75 days after the uprising, did the Qasim Soleimani conspiracy beat the Iraqis? The answer is no. The intensity of the sit-ins has multiplied and its slogans have deepened, as it has a clear-cut program to draw the future of Iraq after ridding it of the killing and corruption factions. For this reason, the methods of suppressing the intifada escalated between continuous killing and kidnappings and attempts to penetrate the sit-in front, especially in Baghdad, after the failure of the Nasiriyah and Najaf operations, and the Arab tribes' bias in the southern governorates alongside their uprising children, as the last episode of provoking sedition inside the sit-in squares in Baghdad failed to fabricate a theatrical killing and suspension The corpse of the protesters fought to give the impression that the youth of the uprising were disrepute and peaceful.

Soleimani did not stop carrying out his bloody program amid terror and anxiety controlling his colleagues in Baghdad after the international condemnation from human rights organizations escalated, then the Security Council disclosed its position, which was much later than asking the rulers in Iraq to stop implementing the series of brutal repression, along with the American position that He links his condemnation to the Iranian hegemony over the capabilities of Iraq, although it was the Americans who brought this backward and shabby model from politicians to power.

The slogans of the uprising and its political program reached its messages to the ruling authority and to its director of affairs Suleimani through continuous data, and verified the first step in the dismissal of Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi amid popular demands for his trial and his military and security staff responsible for the victims of Iraqi youth, while insisting on the implementation of the package of steps for comprehensive change.

Among the pages of the Qassem Soleimani conspiracy is to carry out an intense media campaign aimed at denigrating the uprising and its youth through satellite channels, party armies and electronic militias, and through some marginal personalities who have played for years on the contradictions of the political process and its sectarian predicament, and some of these figures demonstrated with rhetoric tactics that they learned from their parents and took on the role of the opposition, taking advantage of The void, there is no public opposition against the government because of the repression. But the real job of this blatant opposition is cheap trading, and these were not separated from their Islamic ideological loyalty to Tehran, and there was no real liberalism except in the contexts of that trade, but some of these were finally forced to remove the mask from their faces after the conflict between Iraq’s independence projects and its dependence on Iran reached to the point Decisive. So the discourse of these marginal people went down to using the language they belong to, which is the shallow language in attacking the young Iraqi revolutionaries.

Another feature of this stupid campaign is the exploitation of a detailed organizational related to the lack of an organizational leadership for the uprising that manages its media and political activities, including the issue of dialogue with the political opponent represented by the leaders of the ruling parties and those behind them. This organizational shortage may have its logistical justifications and the needs of any revolution, the most dangerous struggle for oppression and corruption in the modern era, including the people of Iraq who have tasted the killing, kidnapping, destruction and displacement of heads, and among those concerns are the apprehension of penetration, physical assassinations or political downfall and sowing discord. Among the cadres of the uprising. The lack of public leadership seems to have advantages in confusing opponents.

The political stalemate continues in Soleimani’s inability to find an alternative prime minister for Abdel Mahdi in the face of the intifada’s insistence on nominating a prime minister with popular characteristics and no role for the parties in his nomination. That leads to the fall of the domino stones in the demands to dissolve Parliament and the electoral law and amend the constitution by removing parties, and this is what haunts the Iranian regime.

Iranian military provocations of the American military presence in Iraq, which were recently repeated, have been met with strong reactions from the American administration, which Khamenei understands more than anything else in its relationship with the political chaos inside Iraq, and the possibilities of accelerating its dismantling after Tehran was forced to withdraw from Iraq. Despite Iranian hostilities because of the Iranian weapons piles in the hands of thousands of poor followers on the Iraqi soil and monitored from American eyes, but Tehran is afraid to go to the last half in the military confrontation that ends its presence in Iraq amid an Iraqi people's welcome.

It is not easy to surrender the executive system of the Iranian project in Iraq, and Soleimani has other cards to prevent the uprising of the people of Iraq from achieving their goals, despite the fact that most of his cards have been burned, so the new task is to play on the slogans of the revolution, and he may acquiesce in naming a prime minister with the specifications of the revolutionaries, but the pernicious play will be In terms of change (such as dissolving parliament, enacting electoral law and the constitution), this requires young people to miss out on him and his aides.

What is happening in Iraq today is a reduction of the blood’s decision that the regime chose after the choice of corruption and looting from 2003 until today, and for this reason the historical moment opened to the people, and the hour of Qassem Soleimani’s departure from Iraq is not far away, and he will cry over his terrorist past while he was implementing a liquidation project The youth and the displacement of the people of Mosul, Salah al-Din, Diyala, Fallujah and Jurf al-Sakhr from their homes.

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Soleimani returns to Iraq ... Iran's deal to pass the "Sudanese" is closer to failure

 

 

16th December, 2019

 

Well-informed political sources confirmed today, Monday, the return of the Iranian Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani to the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday, noting that the deal to pass "Mohammed Shiaa Al-Sudani" as prime minister had failed for Iran.

The sources said, according to a foreign newspaper report, seen by "Al-Akhbariya", that "after his return to Baghdad, Soleimani will go through multi-directional efforts to persuade several forces to pass the nomination of Mohamed Shiaa Al-Sudani to head the new government, after his failure in the last period."

She added: "Soleimani's mission itself is closer to failure than to impose the vision of the Iranians to nominate the Sudanese, because of the reservations of the Najaf and the leader of the Sadrist movement Muqtada al-Sadr and the demonstrators on the personality of the Sudanese, especially after the protesters brandished a new escalation in their movement, considering that the return of the" Dawa "party to the government will be tantamount to A setback for demonstrations.

She continued: "The movements of Soleimani and the official of the Iraq file in the Lebanese" Hezbollah ", Muhammad Kawtharani, have become insufficient to pass his name because of the Najaf reservation, which gave a new argument to political forces that have been under Iranian pressure for days to agree to the Sudanese."

The sources confirmed: "Signs arrived from the office of religious authority Ali al-Sistani in Najaf, stating that a person who was not previously tried should be chosen and the choice should be Iraqi without any external interference, which was considered as a refusal to nominate the Sudanese," indicating that the "building" coalition blocs, which Al-Sudani nominated her options, now looking for an alternative.

She pointed out that "among the reasons for the decline of the Sudanese fortunes is the delivery of a message also from the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, to the political blocs supporting this nomination, in which there is a clear threat that the Sadrist movement supporters will join the protests, with a public and direct invitation from Sadr."

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Iraqis await fallout from NYT expose on Iranian influence

 

Adnan Abu Zeed 

 

December 13, 2019

 

 

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Iraqi demonstrators carry Iraqi flags during ongoing anti-government protests in Basra, Iraq, Dec. 9, 2019.

 

ARTICLE SUMMARY

 

Leaked documents from Iranian intelligence seem to back up Iraqi protestors' angry contention that Iran has corrupted top-level Iraqi politicians, though the politicians themselves offer rebuttals.

 

Many Iraqis are waiting for the other shoe to drop after The Intercept and The New York Times published "The Iran Cables," a report on more than 700 pages of anonymously leaked documents from Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security revealing the extent of Iranian intervention in Iraq.

The documents, which both publications authenticated, mainly address the period of 2014-2015 and mention that that many prominent Iraqi figures have close ties to Iran. The report's publication Nov. 18 fanned the flames of mass protests ongoing in Iraq since Oct. 1. One of the protesters' major complaints is Iran's undue influence on Iraq's government.

Abbas Abboud, an academic and editor-in-chief of the Iraqi newspaper Al-Sabah, told Al-Monitor the leak isn't surprising "at a time of protests and escalation between the US and Iran in the Middle East.”

He added, “The Iraqi government has not succeeded in distancing Iraq from the US-Iranian conflict" despite its huge efforts. "The Iraqi government doesn't have many options to address this issue, especially since Iranian intervention happened through international anti-terrorism efforts, which was the same reason the US intervened.” He was speaking of the 2014 rise of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria.

Abboud said, “Iran won the round [of competition for influence] and invested in its intervention politically because Iraq is important for it. But perhaps many do not realize that there will be a second round, which the US will win.”

Waseq al-Jabiri, a political analyst and adviser to the Iraq Center for the Development of Media in Baghdad, didn't rule out the veracity of the leaked documents, given "the rampant administrative and political corruption that forged foreign allegiances for personal and partisan ends," especially during that time.

But he spoke of the need to address the controversy they have sparked.

“Conflicting stances come from US supporters, on the one hand, and Iran’s supporters, on the other. For that reason, the Iraqi government should professionally and seriously deal with the information in the papers by taking legal and governmental action to verify them," he told Al-Monitor. "Legal, political and executive measures should be taken to reveal the facts" so the report can't be exploited, politicized or misread.

Among those named in the report as interacting with Iranian intelligence were top Shiite Iraqi officials such as current caretaker Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, former Prime Ministers Haider al-Abadi and Nouri al-Maliki, and Baqir Jabr al-Zubeidi (also referred to as Bayan Jabr), who had held many ministerial positions, including interior, finance and transportation.

According to the documents, Zubeidi was "very close" to Iran and approved its request to use Iraqi airspace to transport weapons to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Zubeidi's media office told Al-Monitor, “The documents that the American newspaper published are not official. They are mere words that are not based on facts. They are just leaks from anonymous sources that might be targeting Zubeidi personally to bring him down politically."

The office continued, "The newspaper correspondent contacted [this] office to inquire about the accuracy of the leaks and was provided with the facts on Nov. 14. These included that the agreement for airplanes to pass through Iraqi airspace was signed before Zubeidi took over the Ministry of Transport, and that the planes underwent periodic US investigation and moved humanitarian aid to the Syrian people."

Abadi, who heads the Victory Alliance, was mentioned in the report as being "quite willing to have a confidential relationship with Iranian intelligence." One Victory Alliance leader, Ali al-Sunaid, told Al-Monitor, “There are no official documents, be they American or Iranian, that can prove allegations of Abadi’s affiliation with Tehran. Abadi, who won the war on terrorism, naturally coordinates with parties that can help his country.”

The story also calls Abadi's Cabinet into question. Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a former prime minister who in 2014 was foreign minister, was named as having close ties with Iran, as was Abdul Mahdi and other ministers from that time.

The New York Times story also said one of then-parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri's top political advisers, who was identified only by a code number, was an undercover Iranian intelligence asset who regularly kept track of Jabouri's contacts with Americans.

Jabouri's office denied to Al-Monitor “any knowledge of calls between Jabouri and Iran" and dismissed the American report as "a deliberate attempt to further flare up the Iraqi streets.”

Economist Salam Smeasim, an adviser to the Iraqi Private Banks League, told Al-Monitor, "The documents’ importance does not lie in the names mentioned, as those are known to many, rather in their timing, as they coincide with the wide wave of protests that raised slogans against the Iranian presence in Iraq specifically.”

Smeasim added that the timing of the documents' release makes them dangerous because they put "huge pressure" on the government. "The information cemented the notion of [ousting] influential Iraqi figures whom people have been protesting against since 2003, as they belong to an Iran-led state in Iraq.”

Legal expert and former judge Ali al-Tamimi told Al-Monitor there are two possible legal implications of the leaks.

“Domestically, anyone collaborating with a foreign state, as per articles 158 and 164 of the Iraqi Penal Code, will be sentenced to death," he said. "Anyone who collaborates with a foreign state or attempts to damage Iraq's military, political or economic administration, shall be sentenced to death.”

He added, “If the Iraqi government takes the report seriously, public prosecution shall ... investigate suspects."

At the foreign level, Tamimi expects Washington to "freeze the funds of these individuals and ban their entry to the US, and it might resort to the Security Council to punish Iraq under UN Chapter VII, due to corruption and human rights violations.”

Naturally, the political forces and figures mentioned in the reports denied any connection to Iran. But their statements don't erase the wide-scale Iranian influence on Baghdad's political and security decision-making circles. The Iraqi people who protest against this influence in many cities across south and central Iraq are well aware of this fact.

 

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Adnan Abu Zeed is an Iraqi author and journalist. He holds a degree in engineering technology from Iraq and a degree in media techniques from the Netherlands.
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The fear barrier and the rules of the game ... That is why the Iraqi protests raise the concerns of the power parties

 

- 23 Hours Ago

 

 

 

Since the protests began on the first of last October in Iraq, the authorities and political parties have relied on confronting the demonstrations in several ways through gradual stages.

The first of these methods was to escalate the repression that left hundreds of dead and thousands wounded, through unprecedented arrests, and then launch smear campaigns against the demonstrators, and then burning buildings and fabricating acts of sabotage, until the supporters of the parties entered the protest line within the game of the counter street, then confront the demonstrators. By stabbing and intimidation, and ending with a new escalation of repression in the form of kidnappings and assassinations of activists in an attempt to discourage them from continuing to sit in the protest areas.

The plans were thwarted, but the protesters - especially in the capital Baghdad - were able to overcome what was considered a trap prepared by the power parties and armed factions to divert the path of the demonstrations from their peacefulness, after a mobilization announced last week by unknown parties via the social networks of "Million", and invited them to storm the region Green, which includes the American and British embassies, as well as the headquarters of the government, parliament, the Presidency of the Republic and sovereign ministries, before the coordination committees and through statements broadcast in the demonstration arenas and outreach sites announced their innocence from those calls and raised the slogan "No lesson in transit", in reference to Heb T bridge the republic to break into the Green Zone.

Prominent activists in the demonstrations indicated - in an interview with Al Jazeera Net - that they succeeded in thwarting an attempt to distort the peaceful protests, after a plan for political forces that was intended to storm the Green Zone in order to push the army to respond, which would give sufficient coverage and the argument to eliminate the demonstrations.

 

National unity
, he said activist Mohammed al - Jubouri said the demonstrations "Tahrir Square in Baghdad and various arenas to demonstrate in central and southern governorates, including a community tapestry of different sects and religions and components."

He added that "what raises the concerns of the power parties today is the national unity witnessed by the demonstration arenas, especially since these parties were accustomed to planting the seeds of division between the people of one people on the basis of the component, religion and beliefs, in an attempt to discourage them from pursuing and pursuing their corruption and misuse of power."

He continued, "We will continue our peaceful movement until the implementation of our demands related to changing the regime and rewriting the constitution in Tahrir Square, and holding the killers and thieves of the public money from politicians and even militia leaders involved in the bloodshed of demonstrators and defenseless civilians."

As for civil activist Ali Wajih, he pointed out during his talk to Al-Jazeera Net that "the greatest fruits of the protests in Iraq are social ones, the most prominent of which is the redrawing of popular Iraqi political awareness, and the need to change the rules of the political game.

Wajih warned that "the popular movement today has re-demarcated Iraq's relationship with regional states, and clearly indicated the interference of all countries with Iraqi affairs, led by Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States."

Regarding the age group participating in the broader Iraqi protests for years, Wajih confirmed that "this movement gave strength to a new youth generation who imagined themselves on the sidelines, but it has become the body of the protest movement."

He pointed out that "the protests prompted also political forces to rearrange their leaves, and to try to provide what pleases Almentvd street," pointing out that "the confidence felt by this generation itself, is the greatest fruits of the protests at all, and that will be the way towards achieving many achievements In the coming times. ”

 

The barrier of fear
In turn, a member of the High Commission for Human Rights in Iraq, Ali Al-Bayati, said that "the recent protests broke the barrier of fear among Iraqi youth in particular, and the Iraqi masses in general."

Al-Bayati said in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net that "the real audacity in the current protests is to demand rights and benefit from the democratic mechanisms available in the Iraqi political process that have remained rigid and inactive since 2003".

He pointed out that "the demonstrations revealed the true face of the youth of Iraq, who expressed his love for the homeland and its willingness to defend it and its land and sovereignty, and culminated in 2014 when he went to defend the land of Iraq after the Islamic State invaded parts of it, and provided precious and precious for that.

Al-Bayati added that the youth generation expressed this by demonstrating and protesting for more than two months in order to maintain the Iraqi political system and democratic process, after it became threatened by administrative, financial and quotas corruption.

Source: Al-Jazeera

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There is no formal agreement on a candidate to head the next government in Iraq

 

- 12 Hours Ago

 

 

A source in the Office of the President of the Republic in Iraq told Al-Jazeera that there is no formal or unofficial agreement so far on the nomination of a candidate for prime minister for the next stage, succeeding the resigned Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi.

The source added - who asked not to be named - that the parliamentary blocs, especially the Shiite ones, are not yet in agreement with a specific candidate, and that lack of agreement means not going to present any name to Parliament.

The source said that the past two days witnessed the circulation of the name of a candidate for prime minister, and was presented by some blocs to the president informally, but the opposition of the other blocs from within the Shiite alliance to the name of the candidate aborted this endeavor.

The political blocs in Iraq are locked in these days last minute negotiations to nominate a new candidate to form the transitional government, following the resignation of the previous government headed by Adel Abdul Mahdi early this month.

These consultations and meetings come at a time when Baghdad and nine governorates are witnessing since the beginning of last October, unprecedented demonstrations and sit-ins in the history of Iraq, to demand a change in the political process and legislation for a new election law to form a new government.

And there is only 48 hours left for the Iraqi president to complete the constitutional deadline for nominating a candidate to form the new government, or for him to assume the post of prime minister in addition to his position as president of the country

While the blocs and parties are looking for a candidate from within the current political structure, the demonstrators are demanding an independent candidate from outside the political process, which is accepted and supported by the Supreme Shiite authority in Iraq, and also by the Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr.

The names of all the candidates for the new position were categorically rejected by the blocs and parties, and banners and statements circulated in the demonstration squares called for the nomination of the Lieutenant General Abdul-Ghani Al-Asadi, the Lieutenant General Abdul-Wahab Al-Saadi, Judge Rahim Al-Ugaili, Dr. Sinan Al-Shabibi, and the politician Mohammed Allawi.

Assassination of a militant
These developments coincided with the assassination of an activist in the Iraqi protests against the government and the ruling political class in the country, and the injury of two others - one - in two attacks in the capital Baghdad and the city of Diwaniyah (south), according to two security sources.

"The activist of the Baghdad protests, Haqi Ismail al-Azzawi, was assassinated by unknown gunmen while he was riding his bike in the al-Shaab area north of the capital," an officer with the rank of first lieutenant in the Baghdad police told Anadolu - preferring not to be named.

The officer added that "Al-Azzawi owns a travel and tourism company and is one of the activists in the popular protests."

Source: Al-Jazeera + agencies

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Legal blows it up: Abdul-Mahdi continues to head the government .. Maliki did it previously

 

 

16th December, 2019

Tariq Harb, the legal expert, revealed today, Monday, that the resigned Prime Minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, continues in his post, because the vacancy granted to the President of the Republic is not fulfilled in accordance with Article 81 of the Constitution.

"Abdul-Mahdi continues with his government to manage matters even for a year, until handing over to the new government, as there is no freedom for the president of the republic to assume the post of prime minister according to Article 81 of the constitution," Harb said in a post on his Facebook page.

He added that "freedom is achieved by the death of the resigned prime minister or his illness that prevents him from performing his duties, kidnapping or absence, and intentionally not attending the official working hours, such as sitting at home or traveling and leaving Iraq, or the presence of a physical objection preventing him from performing his duties as normal conditions, in this case a president The Republic has the duties of the Prime Minister."

And Harb continued, "We have a precedent in the year 2010, where Nuri al-Maliki held the position seven months after the end of the four years and the election of a new parliament, and the President of the Republic did not assume the post of Prime Minister, because the vacancy required in Article 81 of the Constitution was not achieved, despite the fact that Abdul-Mahdi did not complete Four years, constitutionally determined for his government, and he who resigned and was not sacked by Parliament.

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12-15-2019  Newshound Guru MilitiaMan    ...

The events of recent past show some fascinating things to note.  

We have not seen anything from the CBI telling us they have stopped the reform process.

In fact the CBI has told us that they are linked with other Central Banks of the world.

Noted by their website showing other note specimens...

In addition...

I found per the CBI that they told the world to be prepared for Contract modifications...

Then ...the Iraq Trade Bank came out and suspended loans for the month of December... 

Then [Guru] Delta's research shows that around 11/27/2019 that Al Taif Islamic Bank / Exchange'r published warnings on their website to be prepared for dollar rate change.
That is an additional confirmation to the CBI that the process is under way.

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12-15-2019  Newshound Guru MilitiaMan    

We also know that we are watching things about the 2020 budget to be revealed

and they told us that last week it would be out

and that has not happened yet.

It is now slated to possibly be for tomorrow. ...

the 2004 - 2017 budgets were sorted and accounted for. 

That leaves the 2018 and 2019 to be disclosed as needing to be accounted for too,

prior to the 2020...

So clearly they have a time frame as stated

and it looks to be clear to me they want to keep the rate in those budgets quiet until game over...

But, also note that the oil and gas,

infrastructure and 2020 budget are slated for vote as early as tomorrow,

unless otherwise changed...

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12-16-2019  Newshound Guru MilitiaMan  

So, if we look at the play book above [posts 1 and 2, 12-15-2019] 

they sure have been working to keep the CBI on track...

So, even if we don't see it in the next 24 - 48 hours we have what [Guru] Delta says iho that we are now 100% going to get paid (effectively, imo)

and it looks to be within this year or within a day or two just outside that...

I personally, think we have a great shot at any time now,

before they open and or close their banks each day moving forward...

The evidence supports it from the CBI

and the actions that came from the time lines of their actions

and the actions of at least the largest lender in the Country of Iraq,

being the Iraq Trade Bank.

So, we shall see. imo...Peace to all!