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CNN. Broadcasting Between Iraq And A Hard Place !

 

 

Tehran's pressure is pushing Baghdad into an asymmetric confrontation with Washington

 

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The insistence of the resigned Iraqi government to remove American forces from Iraq seems closer to suicidal behavior in light of the unprecedented weakness experienced by the Iraqi state and the lack of strength cards that qualify it to engage in a confrontation with the United States led by an administration that has demonstrated its reluctance to use the sanctions weapon Economic, which will be very "lethal" in the event used against Iraq, which is already exhausted economically and financially.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government, driven by tremendous pressure from Iran and its allies in Iraq from Shiite parties and militias, shows a "determination" to implement the parliament’s decision to remove foreign forces, specifically American forces, from the country, raising questions about the true possibilities of the government of resigned Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi to force those Forces to leave in light of the explicit US refusal to do so.

Abdul Mahdi’s office confirmed that the government will not back down from the parliament’s decision to remove foreign forces from Iraqi territory, while the US Secretary of State says that what Iraqi officials show on the issue of removing American forces from Iraq is different from what they conserve, stressing that dozens of these officials have expressed to him their desire to Those forces remain in the country.

With the United States possessing many pressure cards, political, economic and security, and in light of the extreme fragility of the conditions of the Iraqi state, observers question the seriousness of the Iraqi authorities in proceeding with the implementation of the resolution.

As for the United States, maintaining a military presence on Iraqi soil represents a need that goes beyond merely participating in fighting terrorism and preventing the return of ISIS after its military defeat in Iraq and Syria to fighting Iran and restricting its ability to control Iraqi territory through its local agents and opening a passable road linking Between Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.

The United States' preservation of its military presence in Iraq goes beyond merely combating ISIS to counter and limit Iranian influence

Therefore, the withdrawal of the American forces merely to respond to the decision of the Iraqi parliament and the demands of the Baghdad government appears to be out of the question for Washington.

"The government will support the parliament’s vote to withdraw US forces from the country," William Warda, spokesman for Abdul-Mahdi's office, said in a press statement.

He explained that "up to this point, the government is committed to implementing the parliament’s decision that states that all foreign forces must withdraw from Iraq, and that foreign forces do not only mean the presence of American forces, but all other forces."

And the Iraqi parliament voted on the fifth of January this year on a resolution calling for the Baghdad government to end the foreign military presence in the country, during a session that saw the boycott of Kurdish representatives and most Sunni representatives.

The Iraqi government says it is working on preparing procedural and legal steps to implement the decision. However, its request submitted to the United States a few days ago to send a delegation to discuss the mechanism of leaving the forces was met by Washington.

Iran expressly expresses that "the expulsion of American forces from the region" is its biggest prize and the best response to the killing of Soleimani, the senior commander in its Revolutionary Guards. Tehran is using its Iraqi agents to pressure the Iraqi government to proceed with the process of removing American forces from Iraq.

The Fateh Alliance bloc in the Iraqi parliament, in which the pro-Iranian hawks gathered, threatened the military escalation against the American forces if they did not respond to the Iraqi decision to leave the country.

Fatah is the second largest bloc in the Iraqi parliament with forty-seven seats out of 329, and is led by Hadi al-Amiri and consists of political arms for armed Shiite factions such as the Badr Organization and Asaib Ahl al-Haq and the al-Najaba Movement.

"The government is required to take measures to end the presence of foreign forces in the country, especially after the recent decision of the House of Representatives," the head of the bloc, Muhammad al-Ghabban, told Iraqi state television.

Al-Ghabban added, "Any delay or wrap by the American forces will lead to a popular escalation and military confrontations against it," warning against "destabilizing the region and damaging the relationship between Baghdad and Washington."

As a reflection of the US refusal to discuss withdrawing troops from Iraq, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that all Iraqi leaders have told him on special councils that they support the American military presence in their country, despite public calls for the departure of American soldiers from Iraq.

Pompeo, whose ministry often refuses to publish the details of his contacts, confirmed that what he heard during talks with about fifty Iraqi officials since the beginning of this month contradicted what they publicly announce. In response to a question during a seminar at Stanford University, the American minister said, "They will not say this publicly. But in private assemblies, they all welcome America's presence there and its anti-terrorist campaign. ”

He also considered that American soldiers are working to ensure that ISIS does not return and "provide the Iraqis with an opportunity to gain the sovereignty and independence that most Iraqis want."

At the university seminar in which former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice participated, Pompeo said he had spoken with leaders of all affiliations in Iraq, including leaders of the Shiite majority.

In practice, the Iraqi state, which is experiencing its weakest conditions and is witnessing a great separation between the government and the street that has been boiling with demonstrations for more than three months, does not have any papers to withstand the punitive measures Washington might take against it in response to its efforts to remove the American forces from the country.

One of the most painful measures for Iraq in its current stage is the imposition of economic sanctions that will be fatal to its already fragile and faltering economy and mortgaging oil revenues as the only source of income.

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose economic sanctions on Iraq if his authorities decide to remove the 5,200 US soldiers.

Two Iraqi officials told AFP that the US President warned that his country would freeze the Iraqi government's account in the Federal Reserve in New York, which would not have catastrophic repercussions on the Iraqi economy.

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Soleimani's fate and engineer obsessed with the leaders of Iraqi factions

 

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Yesterday, a photo that gathered the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, with leaders of some armed Shiite factions, revealed a meeting held in Qom, Iran, between Sadr and each of the leader of the “Al-Najaba militia” Akram al-Kaabi, the official of the “Brigades of the Master of the Martyrs” Abu Alaa Al-Walai and heads of other factions, who were said to have dedicated To "coordinate joint efforts between the factions after the American aggression and the killing of Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis and some important issues related to the presence of the American occupation in Iraq."

While there was no statement of confirmation or denial from the Sadr Movement or the armed factions about the meeting and its nature, a source close to the Sadr Movement, in an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, suggested that it might take place, and that he might address the call to form (an international resistance) that Sadr had called for after the Soleimani killing And the engineer. ”

But the source excludes, "Al-Sadr's involvement in this stage in an armed resistance movement against the American presence in the country, but he may seek to control the rhythm of the Shiite armed factions after the confusion that he suffered after the killing of Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, and then he moves at the political and parliamentary levels to get the Americans out of Iraq." 
The source confirms that "Al-Sadr and quite a few faction leaders have been present in the Iranian city of Qom since their participation in the funeral of the Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani and the engineer."

On the other hand, many sources close to the leaders and leaders of the Iraqi armed factions loyal to Iran told "Al-Sharq Al-Awsat" that they are going through unprecedented conditions of fear and extreme caution that they may be subjected to the same fate as Soleimani and the engineer (Deputy Chairman of the "Popular Mobilization" organization Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis), who were killed by a US air strike near Baghdad International Airport earlier this month.

The sources also confirm that the leaders of these factions are moving with great caution in ordinary cars and without a long line of protection vehicles for their fear of American missiles, as they refrain from using their personal phones and are wary of those close to them. The sources indicated that they are carrying out large "camouflage" operations to avoid the possibility of being monitored and tracked by American aviation, and they only allow their headquarters to be known by a narrow circle of trusted ones, and in the event that they have to receive some guests, they are required to not bring mobile phones and enter them to the meeting places. .

Likewise, the sources say that the top faction leaders are distributed these days between Najaf, Lebanon and the Iranian city of Qom, and there are not a few elements from the second and third rows in those factions residing in Iran for fear of reprisals by the families of the dead and wounded in the Iraqi demonstrations.

And on the nature of the relationship between the faction leaders in light of the vacuum caused by the killing of Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were controlling the rhythm of the faction movement in general, the sources suggest that the issue of disputes and disputes between the faction leaders deepens, given the intense competition that exists mainly between those factions for many reasons, including the issue of competition On the issue of proximity and distance from the sources of the decision in the "Revolutionary Guard" and Tehran, to differences and competition between them over projects, investments, ministries and government sites.

Resigned Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said during a speech to Parliament after the engineer was killed: «For history: I say that the engineer has played on many occasions a positive role in controlling some of them (the armed factions) and not committing violations that are not acceptable to the law».

While information indicated an agreement that the leader of the Badr Organization, Hadi al-Amiri, who was chosen as the successor to the engineer in the position of vice president of the Popular Mobilization Authority, would assume the presidency of the authority, the sources ruled out that al-Amiri would be able to control the rhythm of the armed factions, given his “lack of personal charisma that was Enjoyed by the engineer. ” The sources believe that the threats to the United States and the fiery statements made by some of the faction leaders hide behind them a real fear of possible American targeting against some of them, especially those that have been included on the American terrorist list, such as the Secretary General of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haqq Qais Khazali and his brother Laith al-Khazali and the Secretary-General « Imam Ali Brigades »and others, as you hide from fear of popular revenge as a result of the accusations against some of those factions of being involved in the blood of the demonstrators.

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The important thing is to hold the dollar

 

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The last speech of Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah in Lebanon, was the speech of all speeches that have nothing to do with reality. It was a speech in which he tried to persuade the Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis, and the Iranians themselves that the Islamic Republic was a regional power that could pursue its expansion project, regardless of the liquidation of Qassem Soleimani, commander of the “Quds Force” in the “Revolutionary Guard”.

What Nasrallah did not understand is that the assassination of Soleimani, who was accompanied by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy chief of the “Popular Mobilization” in Iraq near Baghdad airport, revealed Iran. Is there a more backward system than the one in which the Iranian "Revolutionary Guard" downs a Ukrainian passenger plane that took off from Tehran airport after it considered it a "cruise missile"? Do the passengers of the plane not deserve the victims of the Iranian missile, from Nasrallah, knowing that most of these passengers are Iranian citizens or of Iranian origin?

Suppose that the Iranians took to the streets with millions to funeral General Soleimani and that this "terrified" Donald Trump, but what about ordinary Iranian students and citizens who took to the streets of Tehran and other cities as they burned pictures of the commander of the "Quds Force" who the Americans had finished and shouted "Death to the dictator" That is, for the “guide” Ali Khamenei. What is certain is that there is something new inside Iran, where ordinary people are beginning to feel that the existing system has entered a new stage that does not bode well for its future.

Indeed, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah has nothing to offer neither the Lebanese, nor the Syrians, nor the Iraqis, nor the Yemenis he remembers from time to time. What he promises in response to the United States remains big words that do not translate on the ground, given that the Lebanese are preoccupied with Lebanon, the Syrians in Syria, the Iraqis in Iraq, the Yemenis in Yemen ... and the Iranians in Iran.

As far as the Lebanese are concerned, the words of Hizbullah's Secretary-General pass only on some of his supporters who have fallen into the trap of blind fanaticism and loyalty to the ruler of the jurist. The speech itself can meet those who believe it and applaud him among the supporters of the “Free Patriotic Movement” headed by Gibran Bassil, the son-in-law of the President of the Republic. It is not surprising that these people believed Nasrallah’s words, as they celebrated annually the anniversary of the Syrian army’s seizure of the Baabda Palace and the Ministry of Defense on October 13, 1990, that is, the defeat of Lebanon.

As for the ordinary Lebanese, from all sects, creeds, regions and social classes, it is elsewhere. This Lebanese, who has a minimum level of reason and logic, thinks about what happened to his money deposited in Lebanese banks. There are a million and a half million accounts in these banks and there is a sharp drop in the exchange rate of the Lebanese pound. There is talk by the Governor of the Central Bank, Riad Salameh, that the banks can return the money deposited in dollars, but in Lebanese pounds. Riad Salameh did not explain his words enough. What is being described is the theft of people's savings from the poor, the rich, and the average. This is the question that preoccupies the Lebanese, including the Shi'a community, who make up a third of the depositors. What is certain is that these people, including most Shiites, are not concerned with revenge for Soleimani or the engineer. They do not care whether President Donald Trump is “the biggest liar” or not.

Where does Hezbollah want to take Lebanon, with all its sects and ideologies? There is no answer to such a question in the absence of the ability for a man to be in contact with reality. This fact says that Syrians, like the Lebanese, are considering the price of the dollar, after its price has exceeded one thousand Syrian pounds. They know full well that there is a regime that came with the Iranians and with “Hezbollah” and other sectarian militias so that Bashar al-Assad could stay in Damascus. They also know that the Russian now wants to be the final word power in Syria by understanding with Israel.

Iraq is also in one place, and Hassan Nasrallah is elsewhere. The concern of Iraqi officials, old and young, is not revenge for Qasim Soleimani or Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Their concern is limited to how to restore bridges, open channels with the United States, and precisely the Trump administration. Iraqi officials have discovered that US sanctions can reach them, one by one, if they consider any pressure to compel the United States to withdraw militarily from Iraq. They have a living example of that. This proverb is Iran. It is only natural in a country like Iraq where corruption is ravaging all members of the ruling class, that every official thinks about saving his skin, and not how to respond to the assassination of Qasim Soleimani. Adel Abdel-Mahdi's recent moves are nothing but an attempt to re-float himself with the Americans. This largely explains his recent trip to Kurdistan. Abdul-Mahdi forgot something very important is that there is a popular revolution in Iraq and that it is rejected by Shiites before it is rejected by the Kurds and Sunni Arabs.

Iran remains the same, whose people have come to know that the regime has entered the decline phase, especially after it became clear that it is unable to respond to the assassination of Qasim Soleimani on the one hand, and the downing of the Ukrainian passenger plane on the other hand. The question is that Iran no longer has anything to respond to America after the regime found that it was in a daily confrontation with its people? There is no system in trouble no more. This regime fell practically when it was found that it cannot face US sanctions even if it possesses all the militias of the world.

Ultimately, these militias need funding. Where does the "Islamic Republic" come to it with funding in the presence or absence of Qasim Soleimani?

The region has entered a new stage in which all old talk about resistance and resistance and all that is no longer useful. What works is to determine where the dollar will come from. The problem is that until further notice, America still holds and controls the dollar. The Trump administration seems to be holding him well. Are there people in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq who want to know about this instead of repeating old words? This statement is only valid for naivety, given that it has nothing to do with what is going on on the ground in the region and the world ...

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The October Uprising is stronger than the enemies of Iraq

 

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The series of assassinations of Iraqi activists and uprisings returned after the assassination of Qasim Soleimani in an Iranian attempt to suggest that its bloody program against the October Uprising did not end with the end of its owner and first manager in Iraq Soleimani. A terrible crime was committed, last Friday, in the city of Basra by the armed groups affiliated with Iran, by killing the journalist and correspondent of the Iraqi Tigris Channel, Ahmed Abdul Samad, and his comrade, photographer Safaa Ghali. This hideous crime was preceded by an incitement campaign led by media machines linked to Tehran targeting the media and journalists participating in covering the uprising march that started on the first of last October and is still continuing and steadfast in its contents embodied in the slogan "We want a homeland", despite the thousands of martyrs and wounded who sacrificed their lives on The way to restore the country kidnapped by the Iranian regime and its proxies

This criminal series is being carried out silently by Adel Abdul-Mahdi's resigned government, and he is the one who does not throw a lid on citizens of his country who are killed daily under his rule, but he is hysterical to the killing of an Iranian general accused of killing the Iraqis. The youths insistence on their uprising has exposed the "third party", which is the armed militia gangs loyal to Tehran, who have expressed their mad reaction after the killing of Soleimani. Iranian and the export of drugs and deadly pills across the border to the people of Basra. In a video he posted hours before his assassination, Abdel Samad touched to the third party and said, "He is now exposed," referring to the Iranian-backed militias, after which he received several bullets that lost his life with his colleague.

The pro-Iranian militia wanted to use the moments of death and funeral of Qassem Soleimani's funeral to unleash a wave of emotional boiling based on the legacy of Shiite emotion and its investment to abort the popular uprising, and convert the slogans of the funeral of the Iranian dead as a point of suppression of the slogans of the national uprising, but what happened in those hours was a surprise to those militias and expressed consciousness My country is Iraqi and committed to the principles of the popular uprising. When protesters in Basra and Nasiriyah refused to participate in the symbolic funeral of the Iranian man, the Iraqi Hezbollah militia fired on the protesters, killing one of them in the city of Nasiriyah.

The militias have lost their wager on the brink of the popular uprising, which has renewed its millions in Baghdad, Basra, Nasiriyah, Diwaniyah and other cities. Many of the uprisings expressed their happiness over the killing of the first man in Iran who carried out the series of killing Iraqis, and recalled in their conversations on social media that Soleimani was responsible for the killing of 182 military pilots in retaliation for their role in defending their homeland during the Iran-Iraq war.

The Iranian regime realizes that the dangers of the Iraqi uprising are not the authority of the parties in Iraq, even if they were so, but rather their dangers target the influence of this regime in Iraq, and every day the features of this national uprising appear bold and clear in the political discourse that transcends the backward minds of the political class burdened with looting accounts. Theft and loyalty to Tehran. And when the Tehran regime tried to invest its struggle with Washington in escalating the media festival against it, accusing them of dragging young people to aligning themselves with America against Tehran, the uprisers clearly shocked their visions of this game, rejecting in their slogans both Iranian and American influence, and throats in the arenas shouted, "Neither Iran nor America lived Iraq."

The peaceful demonstrators asserted their Iraqiness and that they want Iraq to be a master for itself and for strangers not to have a place in it, which is the same slogan announced by the Najaf authority in its last sermon to its representative last Friday, demanding that "Iraq be the master of itself governed by its children and no role for strangers in its decisions." However, the corruption and employment parties of the foreigner did not comment on this request from the Shiite authority, which it always claims to comply with. It is no longer a mystery the dependency of the political class in Iraq that Tehran has revealed its strength in the recent skirmishes between it and America, and this wasting withdrew on the militias affiliated with it, to the extent that the leader of the Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq militia, whose groups with Hezbollah attacked the American embassy, retracted their responsibility for That attack, considering it an American measure despite resounding threats elsewhere, to defeat America.

The October uprising is coherent and assured of its peace despite the armed attacks, and has proven its ability to continue its demands to remove power from these corrupt parties. This is represented by the demands to nominate an independent prime minister who is not subject to or loyal to these parties, leading an interim government with a new law for early elections, then amending the constitution, which is always What was used to serve the interests of those parties.

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Khamenei's "holiness" erosion opens doors of change in Iran

 

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The repercussions of the killing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander Qassem Soleimani took place without the regime's desire in Tehran, which has wagered on a greater flesh between it and its people, to confront a "conspiracy" that he often succeeded in using in his favor. Ali Khamenei is in an unprecedented step, as the guide usually has sanctity that appears to have eroded.

Tehran - The head of the Iranian People's Union Party, Ali Shukuri Rad, acknowledged on Monday the expansion of what he described as a rift between the people and the state, at a time when the Iranian regime besieged by escalating protests is trying to manage balances by notifying the police to avoid suppressing the demonstrators in an option that was not available during previous protests that were met with a stick. Heavy police.

The regime failed to employ the killing of Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani to reinforce the fragile flesh at home, as tumors soon exploded after the authorities' late admission that it had downed a Ukrainian airliner that had killed 176 people.

The protests erupted in the wake of the Iranian army's admission, on Saturday, of its responsibility for the crash of the Ukrainian Airlines plane, minutes after take-off, last Wednesday, during a state of alert to the Iranian forces in anticipation of an American response to Tehran's retaliatory strikes.

For days, Iranian officials vehemently denied the country's responsibility for the shooting down, even after Canada, which lost 57 of its citizens in the crash, and the United States said their intelligence indicated that an Iranian missile had shot down the plane. Thousands of Iranians gathered in public squares to denounce the shooting down of the Ukrainian plane, raising the slogan "They lie and say that our enemy is America, our enemy here."

Twitter footage showed protesters demanding the resignation of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei over the disaster. Hundreds of people chanted in front of Amir Kabir University in Tehran, "Go away, O Supreme Leader Khamenei."

Shukuri Rad expressed his dissatisfaction with the failure of the Iranian authorities to announce immediately the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane, last week.

"We do not know who made the decision to cover up the missile strike that brought down the plane," he added.

"This is considered to be acid casting on the face of the Republic of Iran and it is not easy to fix it."

Mehdi Karroubi, a leader of the opposition Green Movement in Iran, called on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to step down because of the shooting down of the Ukrainian plane.

The semi-official Iranian news agency Fars reported in a rare report of anti-government unrest that up to a thousand protesters chanted slogans in Tehran against the authorities. The report stated that the demonstrators in the street also tore down pictures of the Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, of the Revolutionary Guards, who was killed by Washington in a strike by a drone in Iraq on January 3.

The agency, widely viewed as being close to the Revolutionary Guards, showed pictures of a group of people and a tattered picture of Soleimani.

Iran has tried to evade the responsibility of shooting down the Ukrainian plane and claiming an external (American-Israeli) plot to implicate it in the incident and diverting attention from the killing of Qassem Soleimani, especially to alleviate the impact of the Iranian response to Iraqi military bases where American soldiers are stationed and to show Iranian power in the image of the shaky force and that it is closer to Logos thereof to the actual effect.

But followers of Iranian affairs said that the authorities in Tehran knew, from the first moment, at a high level, that the reason for the crash was an Iranian missile in an attempt to absorb the angry reaction in the world, which would have been stronger if the plane was shot down from the beginning.

The delay in recognition achieved counterproductive results after the United States succeeded in providing evidence condemning Iran to Ukraine and other countries, some of its citizens were victims of the missile attack on the plane, which turned the media battle point into intensive talk about the limited Iranian capabilities, and that Tehran did not observe the international law that orders the closure Airports and inform the concerned authorities of the moment of the war attacks.

"Those who delay the publication of the reason behind the plane crash and have harmed the confidence of people in the ruling establishment or have to resign," wrote an Islamist newspaper, or Islamic Republic, in an editorial.

Criticism of the authorities in Iran is not unusual, but it tends to remain within narrow limits.

Newspaper attacks and protests add to the challenges ahead for the ruling establishment, which last November faced the country's worst and deadliest turmoil since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

As protests spread across Iran, including major cities such as Shiraz, Isfahan, Hamadan, and Orumiyeh, US President Donald Trump said on Twitter, "We follow your protests closely and your courage is an inspiration."

In his tweets, which he published in Persian and English, to reach as many Iranians as possible, Trump added, "There can be no further massacre of peaceful protesters and no blocking of the Internet." The world is watching. ”

This incident brings to the fore the popular explosion of discontent at any moment against the Iranian regime, especially after Tehran witnessed a wave of protests last November and the authorities deliberately used the conspiracy theory as a tool to suppress the protesters.

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The European Union confirms its fulfillment of the pledges of the Kuwait Conference on the reconstruction of Iraq


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The European Union confirmed that it had fulfilled the pledges of the Kuwait International Conference on the Reconstruction of Iraq held in 2018

The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Josep Borrell said during a discussion session on Iran and Iraq at the European Parliament’s headquarters in the French city of Strasbourg, “We need to make sure - with our support Continuous - that the reforms that are legitimately demanded by Iraqi citizens are implemented immediately, taking into account the international commitments made at the Iraq Reconstruction Conference held in February 2018 in Kuwait

He explained that "the European Union has fully fulfilled the commitments it made that amounted to more than 400 million euros (445 million dollars) which were mobilized in the past two years to support governance and reforms and encourage the creation of sustainable job opportunities and comprehensive growth in Iraq

He added, "I am committed as a high representative and as a representative of the European Union ... We are all committed to working to stop the current cycle of violence in Iraq before it spins out of control again

The activities of the Iraq Reconstruction Conference, hosted by Kuwait from February 12 to 14, 2018, concluded with a total of $ 30 billion in contributions from the participating countries and entities, including the European Union

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The tragedy of the Ukrainian plane haunts Iran: another day of tumultuous protests against the regime

 

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Iran is trying to get out of the new crisis triggered by the incident of shooting down the Ukrainian plane by diverting the attention of the international community and its people from the tragedy that claimed 176 lives after announcing the launch of a campaign of arrests against those involved in the incident and to hide its causes, which made the divisions between the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the authorities go out to Publicity, according to many sources.


 

TEHRAN - The situation of the Iranian regime is heading towards a further aggravation as protests continue to denounce the authorities ’practices and intentionally conceal the fact that the Ukrainian plane was shot down, which killed 176 people of different nationalities.

And video footage circulated on social media showed, on Tuesday, Iranian demonstrators gathered for a fourth day in Tehran to protest the authorities' handling of the crash.

One of the records showed a crowd gathered at a university in the capital and chanted "Where is justice?" In a continuation of protests coming out every day since the Iranian army admitted, on Saturday, that it had shot down the plane in error.

Iran has tried to camouflage the Iranian people and the international parties pressing them, according to observers, by promoting the start of a campaign of arrests that will affect those involved in an attempt to hide the fact that the plane was shot down.

On Tuesday, Iran's judiciary announced arrests in the case of the downing of the plane in Tehran last week. "Extensive investigations have been carried out and some people have been arrested," judiciary spokesman Ghulam Hussein Ismaili told a news conference.

This is the first announcement of arrests since the Ukrainian plane was accidentally shot down by a missile shortly after it took off from Tehran last Wednesday. After initially denying what several Western countries had announced about the downing of the plane with a missile, Iran returned and recognized, on Saturday, the involvement of the Iranian army in the incident.

"Several investigations were carried out in that area, and every night our judicial team was working on obtaining documents until midnight," Ismaili added.

This comes shortly after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced that Iran would punish all those responsible for shooting down the plane in a disaster that has provoked and continues to provoke angry demonstrations in various Iranian cities.

However, these arrests began to affect opposition figures, the regime aims to silence them in order to contain the ongoing protests in Tehran against the regime's policies. The authorities have arrested Hussein Karoubi, son of the reformist opponent, Mahdi Karoubi, who has been under house arrest since 2011, for his support to the demonstrations in the country. The Iranian “Fars” agency reported that security forces arrested Hussein Karoubi in his home in support of the ongoing demonstrations in the country 3 days ago, without mentioning the

The agency added that Karoubi is a member of the central council of the opposition "National Trust" party, which was previously headed by his father. Karoubi has been under house arrest since 2011 on charges of "supporting the protests" that followed the 2009 presidential elections.

Karoubi's arrest came two days after his father, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called to step down over the crash.

The matter did not stop when carrying out some arrests, as the divisions between the Iranian regime and its arms, especially the Revolutionary Guards, were overshadowed after President Hassan Rouhani concluded that the Revolutionary Guards tried to hide the fact that he was involved in the Ukrainian plane disaster.

The tension between the Iranian President and the Revolutionary Guards came out into the open when accusing the office of President Hassan Rouhani of the Revolutionary Guards of deception over the downing of the Ukrainian plane.

And the British Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Tuesday that it was clear that President Rouhani seemed to be directing popular anger towards his most hard-line enemy in the Revolutionary Guard, as the protests entered its third day.

The newspaper added in a report to its correspondents, Ahmed Fahdat and Rav Sanchez, entitled "The tension between President Rouhani and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard comes out into the open." .

The report says that "at the same time, a leaked recording of one of the leaders of the Revolutionary Guards complained that the Rouhani government left them vulnerable to public anger over the shooting down of the Ukrainian plane."

The report clarifies that the recording was published by an opposition website and showed a prominent leader of the Revolutionary Guards speaking in a room full of officers, calling on them to absorb political anger.

The recording reveals that the commander said that the government could have waited two or three months before announcing the truth to allow the Revolutionary Guards to obtain greater popular support and sympathy against the background of the killing of the former Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani and the subsequent bombing of two bases in Iraq, adding that the Rouhani government had not Show any kind of appreciation to the Revolutionary Guards who suppressed hostile demonstrations weeks ago.

Tehran is exacerbating the crisis in the country by accusations of foreign accusations, particularly its threat to diplomats. After his detention last week for a short period, the Iranian judiciary described, on Tuesday, Britain's ambassador to Tehran, Rob MacKer, the "unwanted" person.

And the Iranian Foreign Ministry, which has summoned Ambassador Rob MacAir who has held the position since 2018, will be responsible for announcing any move to expel him.

Observers believe that Iran with such actions misses an opportunity to find settlements with its adversaries, especially the United States, especially as it continues to reduce its obligations regarding the nuclear agreement signed in 2015.

As part of efforts to reach compromises between Iran and its opponents, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday called on US President Donald Trump to replace the nuclear deal with Iran with a new agreement to ensure it does not possess a nuclear weapon.

"President Trump is a great dealmaker ... so let's work together to replace the joint comprehensive plan of action with the Trump agreement," Johnson told BBC News.

Johnson's speech came after Britain, France and Germany announced the activation of the dispute settlement mechanism with Iran, after violating the obligations stipulated in the nuclear agreement that was reached in 2015. The mechanism's activation will eventually allow re-imposing sanctions on Tehran.

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Learn about the American character who secretly arrived at Baghdad International Airport and Ain Al-Asad base

 

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A parliamentary source inside the Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee revealed, on Monday, the American character who arrived in the capital, Baghdad, through its international airport and Ain al-Assad base in Anbar province, in secret.

The source said in a statement to the "information", that "American Vice President Michael Pence arrived last Friday to Baghdad International Airport secretly and was transferred to Ain al-Assad base in Anbar Governorate via Apache planes," pointing out that "Pence was transported with heavy guard by the American aviation and a squadron of Apache aircraft.”

He added that "Pence's visit came to know the extent of the damage left by the Iranian strike in the runway of the base of Ain al-Assad, which removed it from service and the size of the losses in the American military barracks," noting that "Pence did not meet with the resigned Prime Minister Adel Abdel-Mahdi and moved with great secrecy for his fear of targeting."

It is noteworthy that last Friday, Baghdad International Airport witnessed an intense flight of the American planes, after the arrival of an unidentified figure from the Trump government. 

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French newspaper: You talk about the facts and scandals of corruption ... How much does the amount of bribery reach in order to get a job in Iraq ?!

 
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(Corruption from the top of the pyramid to the bottom in Iraq)

 

We witness that news of corruption in Iraq is witnessing a striking presence in the French newspapers through an investigation published by "Liberation" on "the rampant corruption in the country from the top of the pyramid to the bottom."

The newspaper says that official estimates indicate that "more than four hundred billion euros have disappeared from the state treasury due to corruption since 2003".

The special Liberation envoy to Iraq wrote Hala Kudmani. "All jobs are bought and sold starting with ministerial portfolios that are exchanged for sums ranging from 10 to 25 million dollars, the value of the Ministry of Defense in the government of Haider al-Abadi."

Liberation also says, noting that "the price of public jobs, no matter how high, remains profitable."

According to the newspaper, which considered "fake jobs, estimated at tens of thousands, another source of bribery."

While the newspaper indicated that a university study counted fifty thousand imaginary soldiers during the era of Haider al-Abadi.

Liberation quoted the author of this study saying, "Corruption networks are subject to the logic of dominoes, which means that the system will collapse once cleansing operations begin, and that is precisely that."

"Liberation" concluded that "what the protesters have been demanding for weeks in the streets of Iraq with the aim of toppling a government they say is a thief's government."

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Al-Sadr defines the time and place of the millionaire demonstration and publishes recommendations regarding it

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The Abbasid threshold republished part of the Sistani's reference statement on those who lie in wait for the country and seek to exploit the protests.

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"What the Supreme Religious Authority has said, we warn against those who lie in wait for the country and seek to exploit the protests demanding reform," Al-Ataba said in a tweet on her Twitter site, followed by "Yass Iraq."

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The first Kurdish welcome for the "Sunni province" movement: the oppression of the western provinces will end

 

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Member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Imad Bajlan, confirmed on Tuesday 14-1-2020, the support of the Kurds and their encouragement of the idea of turning Iraq into administrative regions, while he indicated that the provinces and cities of the country will not develop into transforming Iraq into regions. 

Imad Bajlan, in an interview with (Baghdad Today), said that "a country with multiple components and minorities, such as Iraq, will remain in which all components will remain in place and the provinces and cities will not evolve in terms of security, economic and educational aspects, except by turning it into regions."

Baglan added, "The Kurds support the idea of establishing the Sunni region, despite the existence of common and overlapping regions with the supposed region, specifically in the governorates of Nineveh, Salah al-Din and others, which can be resolved by Article 140 of the Constitution, law and popular referendum."

He continued, "The country will not settle only with the system of regions, and we have the experience of the Kurdistan region, which has gone through long conflicts with multiple regimes that were trying over time to undermine the rights of the Kurds, but it succeeded by all measures." Them to create the administrative region. "

A member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party confirmed that "the Shiite blocs and parties oppose the idea of establishing the Sunni region because of the presence of the military imams in the city of Samarra in Salah al-Din Governorate, and this issue can be resolved." 

A member of the Iraqi Forces Alliance, the deputy from Anbar province, Faisal Al-Issawi, revealed earlier, moves that will begin these days to form regions in the western provinces, to reduce the damage to those provinces due to the repercussions of canceling the security agreement between Baghdad and Washington.

Al-Issawi said, in a televised interview I followed (Baghdad today): "There is no constitutional text telling the House of Representatives that it can authorize the caretaker government to be a fully-fledged government," noting that "amending the security agreement with Washington will take a long time until the new government is formed to include the government Modification. "

On the repercussions of canceling the agreement, Al-Issawi said, "If the pressure increases and the government goes further, the loss will be great, and we will start with clear moves from now to form regions in our western provinces to reduce the damage from them, if we cannot reduce the size of the crisis for all of the country's provinces." .

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America, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain prevent the Iraqi embassies from opening records of condolences to the engineer

 

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An Iraqi diplomatic source revealed, on Wednesday, the refusal of three capitals to open Iraqi embassies records of condolences for the martyrdom of the deputy head of the PMF, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

The Russian "RT" channel quoted the source as saying, "The United States of America prevented the Iraqi embassy in Washington from opening a record of condolences for the martyrdom of the engineer, and Bahrain and Saudi Arabia also rejected the matter," noting that "the Iraqi consulate in Detroit witnessed significant security measures by the American authorities To prevent the registry from opening.”

The source added, "The UAE did not oppose opening the record of condolences at the Iraqi embassy in Abu Dhabi, despite the convergence of its policy with the countries that refused to open." Earlier this month, the Iraqi Foreign Minister, Muhammad Ali al-Hakim, directed all diplomatic and consular missions to open records of condolences for the lives of those killed.The popular crowd who died in the recent American raids.
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Iran is unable to get rid of the curse of the Ukrainian plane


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Tehran - The Iranian regime stands helpless in the face of sales of the issue of shooting down the Ukrainian plane in light of the continuing angry protests for the fourth consecutive day, along with the escalation of international pressure on Tehran.

On Wednesday, new calls were made to take to the street. She urged several posts on the Iranian social media to go out on marches and stops for the fifth day in protest of the Ukrainian plane disaster and how the authorities acted on it.

The congestion of the Iranian street, which called for the necessity of the departure of the entire regime, continues despite the efforts of the Iranian authorities to calm the street.

In an attempt to contain the rising street against the Iranian regime, Tehran announced a massive arrest campaign for parties related to the Ukrainian plane case.

The Iranian judiciary announced in a press conference about the arrests that took place in the plane's case, without specifying its number. "Extensive investigations were conducted and some people were arrested," said judiciary spokesman Ghulam Hussein Ismaili.

The student-led protests erupted last Saturday, after the Iranian Revolutionary Guards acknowledged their responsibility to shoot down the Ukrainian plane, which was carrying 176 passengers, mostly Iranians and Canadians.

In a related context, the New York Times reported that new video clips recorded by a security camera showed that two Iranian missiles hit the Ukrainian commercial plane, 30 seconds apart, after taking off from Tehran.

The same source said that the two missiles were launched from an Iranian military facility about 12 km from the plane, adding that none of the missiles immediately fell, and that the video showed that the plane had caught fire and returned to Tehran airport.

In a related development, Canada described Tehran's assertion that only a few Canadians died last week when Iran shot down a passenger plane as "nonsense" and demanded full accountability for what it described as a horrific crime.

The remarks were made by Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champaign, and it is one of the harshest comments made by Canadian officials since the disaster, which killed 176 people, including 57 Canadians.

Ottawa officials said that Iran, which does not recognize the concept of dual nationality, said last week that few Canadians had died in the accident.

"What I would like to say is that this is nonsense ... We will not accept this position," Champaign told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, adding that he raised the issue with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

"We have already rejected this and have made it very clear to the Iranian regime that this will not pass. I think the world is following and under the circumstances that I expect and demand from it, it is clear that Iran will respect what Canada wants when it comes to its citizens. ”

The situation of the Iranian regime is heading towards more crisis as protests continue to denounce the authorities ’practices and intentionally conceal the fact that the Ukrainian plane was shot down, which killed 176 people of different nationalities.

The tension between the Iranian President and the Revolutionary Guards came out into the open when accusing the office of President Hassan Rouhani of the Revolutionary Guards of deception over the downing of the Ukrainian plane.

And the British Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Tuesday that it was clear that President Rouhani seemed to be directing popular anger towards his most hard-line enemy in the Revolutionary Guard, as the protests entered its third day.

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His office announces that the Sistani authority has suffered a thigh bone injury and will be operated on today


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The media office of the supreme religious authority in Iraq, Mr. Ali Al-Sistani, announced on Thursday, that the latter suffered a femur injury and will be operated on today.

The office said, quoting an official source, that "His Eminence (as long as his shadow) was subjected to a twisting in the left leg that led to a fracture of the thigh bone, and he will be operated on today - God willing - under the supervision of an Iraqi medical team."

The statement added: "We ask the honorable believers not to forget His grace from supplication."


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Al-Shifa_ Urgently leads Twitter after Sistani's surgery

 

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The hashtag #Shifa_Agil issued a list of "Trend" in the site "Twitter" after the statement of the religious reference office, Mr. Ali Al-Sistani, who announced that the reference was subject to fracture of the thigh bone, and his call to the believers to heal.

Activists launched the hashtag to pray for "healing" of the supreme religious authority, Mr. Ali Al-Sistani, with the urgent disclosure.

An official source in the office of the Sistani authority said, earlier today, that the reference of His Eminence last night to a sprain in the left leg led to a fracture of the thigh bone and will be operated on This day is under the supervision of an Iraqi medical team.
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US sentences two Iranian agents to prison for spying

15580898-5c18-4b81-8d32-e00c1df5a6e4_16x9_788x442 Two Iranian agents were sentenced to prison in the US Wednesday on charges of spying on American citizens and US nationals, the US Department of Justice announced.

Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, 39, a dual US-Iranian citizen and Majid Ghorbani, 60, an Iranian citizen living in the US, aided the Iranian government in targeting Americans in the US who oppose the Iranian regime, according to the DOJ statement.

The two gathered information that could be used to intimidate or harm targets or their families, USAssistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers said.

“This case illustrates Iran’s targeting of Americans in the United States in order to silence those who oppose the Iranian regime or otherwise further its goals,” he added.

The DOJ explained the activities Doostdar and Ghorbani participated in that led to the charges and sentencing.

Doostdar admitted under oath, as part of his plea, he was specifically given Ghorbani’s name and workplace prior to coming to the US with instructions on activities the Iranian government wanted Ghorbani to carry out, according to the DOJ.

Doostdar then traveled to the US and met Ghorbani at his workplace for the first time to brief him where the latter accepted to work with the Iranian government in the US.

Ghorbani collected information including photos and handwritten notes with names of people who attended a rally in New York City in September 2017, organized by the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), a group critical of the Iranian regime.

“The rally consisted of constitutionally-protected activity, including US citizens denouncing the Iranian regime,” the DOJ said.

In December 2017, Doostdar took the collected information to Iran.

Ghorbani attended another PMOI rally in May 2018, held in Washington, DC, where he once again collected photos and information on attendees to report back to the Iranian government.

FBI National Security Branch official Jay Tabb called these activities “intimidating.”

“The FBI will not tolerate surveillance being conducted here in the US at the behest of foreign nations like Iran,” he said.

Doostdar was sentenced to 38 months in prison, while Ghorbani was sentenced 30 months.

In 2019, Doostdar pleaded guilty to charges of acting as an unregistered agent of the government of Iran, while Ghorbani pleaded guilty to violating US sanctions laws with respect to Iran.
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The American presence in Iraq is his money and what it is.

 

The American presence in Iraq came to two articulated events in modern Iraqi history, the first was the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, and the second came after the ISIS occupation of a third of Iraq, which called on the Iraqi government to invoke the international coalition forces headed by America to help liberate its lands, and in both cases the parties The policy in government today plays a prominent role in summoning the US military and opening the doors wide open to it, reinforced by Scott applied from religious references, who did not mind entering these forces and refrained from fighting them. It appears that the political parties in Iraq and their references see in the American army mercenaries for them to resort to whenever they need them to do so.

On the first occasion, the American forces came out of Iraq within the framework of the joint strategic framework agreement that was signed between the two parties in 2006, which called for the withdrawal of the American forces in 2011, then ISIS soon occupied a third of the Iraqi territories in 2014 so that the Iraqi government calls the American forces again to help them in its war on ISIS and victory over it.

It is well known that America has many bases scattered around the world, either in the form of pure American bases, or through common rules between the American forces and the forces of the state concerned, which are in accordance with joint agreements between the two parties that are not limited to the security and military aspects only, but even to the political and economic aspects as well.

Why the American presence in Iraq?

The geography of the presence of American bases in the world will sometimes be according to the international balances of the great powers and areas of influence that control those balances, and at other times they will be in accordance with the requirements to preserve their interests in the hotbeds of tensions in the world and in most cases these interests will be economic, on this basis we will face the following questions ... What are the reasons for existence The American in Iraq and in what context is it, and what are the mutual interests between the two parties, and why do some Iraqi parties insist on the exit of these forces?

The American presence in Iraq was for mutual interests between the two parties, whether in the two and three or two thousand and fourteen, although the ceiling of Iraqi interests cannot be compared to the American interests in terms of the variation in the size of the political influence of the two parties at the international level. Saddam Hussein or the liberation of Iraqi lands from the ISIS occupation, while the American interest exceeded the political and security ceiling to reach economic reasons related to Iraqi oil wealth, as well as regional and international balances related to America's influence and interests in the region and protection Security of its allies.

The Obama administration's mistake was that it focused on preserving America's interests in Iraqi oil, neglecting the political and security aspect and its developments as a consequence of the departure of US forces from Iraq. So she took advantage

Iran this vacuum, and through its allies in Iraq, it was able to fill it with security and political influence through which it fully controlled the political process in Iraq, and through this influence it completed drawing the Shiite crescent between Iran, Syria and Lebanon through Iraq. We have witnessed the repercussions of this American withdrawal and its Iranian expansion in what took place after the Syrian revolution of political and security changes in the region, and the same as the expansion of Iranian influence from a direct threat to Washington's allies in the region ... Depending on these developments, the Trump administration, which rejected the total withdrawal from Syria, will not repeat The experience of withdrawing from Iraq again, and this explains the American insistence to refuse to talk about any American withdrawal from Iraq, at least for the time being.

In addition to the previous reasons, the emergence of the Russian role in the region and the success of his experience in Syria in terms of security, military and political, makes the Russian factor the best bet in front of any security threat to the Iraqi government in the future if the American forces withdrew this time, so it is difficult for what America should have left Iraq For any future Russian influence.

There is an important international economic factor that Iraqi politicians calling for the US withdrawal do not notice, and that is the energy lines in the region. Leaving America to Iraq will reduce American pressure on Russia on the issue of energy lines that Russia was able to extend through Turkey and the Caspian Sea to Europe, and eliminate its plans to extend energy lines to producing countries in the region through Iraq and Syria to Europe, so he kept American influence in Iraq and Syria It is an American strategic choice that you will defend in every way.

As for the Iraqi parties calling for an end to the American presence, they are trying to rally the Iraqi street against this presence with very justifications that are far from the political logic and the closest thing to political naivety, by intimidating the Iraqi street from what it calls "the American occupation", even though the colonization of countries in the twenty-first century exceeded its old form And that was happening with a direct military occupation of the countries. Suffice it to link any country to the international economy and shackle it with the general course of international politics so that the country concerned falls into the orbit of the major countries without the need for the presence of tractor armies, and this is what happened with Iraq in the two thousand and eleven, where even after the American withdrawal, the American influence remained an economic and political semblance in general. As for the presence of American bases in Iraq today, they transcend American interests in Iraq to reach American interests in the region and the challenges these interests face. Among those challenges are the developments of the Iranian file and the direct threat it represents to those interests.

From this standpoint, the insistence of some Iraqi forces to remove the American forces from Iraq does not mean the Iraqi people as much as the issue is related to Iranian interests that the Iraqi parties are trying to dye with an Iraqi character, otherwise, what is wrong with the survival of these forces in Iraqi territory according to a new agreement or a change in some of the terms of the agreement Precedent to obtain greater Iraqi sovereignty there. We all remember how the street in Germany went out in protest of an American decision to evacuate an American base on German soil because of the financial returns that had been brought to the residents of that region.

Mr. Muqtada Al-Sadr .. Why a demonstration and not a referendum?

Mr. Muqtada Al-Sadr called for a million demonstration denouncing the American presence in Iraq and objecting to the violations carried out by the American army, according to what was mentioned, and directed his speech to his audience, saying: - Your possession is crying out for you ..

The first thing that draws attention in this letter of Muqtada is that she talks about a demonstration (million), and calls are made to followers of the estate because they come to demonstrate, and as we all know, there are two properties and not one estate, for what estate is Mr. Muqtada talking? If the talk was about the possession of Mr. Al-Sistani, then his call places Mr. Al-Sistani in great embarrassment, because the latter did not decide on any negative stance towards the American presence in Iraq, neither from near or from afar, and if he meant the possession of Al-Sadr, he raises a partiality of prisons with the Shiite street not It should be raised now.

Whether Mr. Muqtada means his possession or the possession of Mr. Al-Sistani, he only directs his words to the Shiite street, and places him as a guardian on the opinion of the remaining Kurdish and Sunni constituents, although it is known that Mr. Muqtada has tried to appear over the past years as the national leader who rejects sectarian and nationalist tendencies.

The request from one component to express his opinion on a matter that concerns all the components is a monopoly of the other opinion and underestimating it, and in his letter there is no intercession in the existence of the word (your Iraq) that followed the word (your possession).

Regardless of the views regarding the American presence in Iraq, either by rejection or acceptance, the anticipation of Mr. Muqtada Al-Sadr and his ruling on the illegitimacy of the American presence before the Iraqi government expresses its opinion clearly on this, is considered a lack of recognition by that government, although it represents a good percentage of that The government, with its three institutions ...

What is taken on Mr. Muqtada is that he is always delinquent to know the opinion of the street through demonstrations and marches, although the popular rallies represented by demonstrations and marches cannot be considered as an accurate expression of the opinion of the street as it is a demonstration of the popular support of the political party calling for those rallies. We do not know why insisting on demonstrations and these chaotic manifestations and not resorting to knowing the opinion of all the components through calling for a popular referendum for all of Iraq. It is known that the referendums are a contemporary organization practice, unlike the pretense that is considered a chaotic phenomenon that only expresses the opinion of the people participating in it. Even if al-Sadr succeeds in gathering a million demonstrators (and this is close to the impossible), more than thirty million Iraqis remain without their opinion on this matter, and thus the legitimacy of the street cannot be taken from this demonstration.

Sadr's call may explain his attempt to silence the sound of the demonstrations that have been going on for several months against the Iraqi government. It may also be interpreted as an attempt to rally the opinion of the anti-American street only, after the armed action against the American bases in Iraq became a risky matter after the assassination of Qasim Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis. To withdraw. Of course, the only civilian means that guarantees their direction is to bring out their supporters in demonstrations. As for the referendum, it certainly will not bring the desired results to Iran and the Iraqi parties allied to it. The facts indicate that popular anger in Iraq at the present time is focused on the Iranian presence and the Iraqi party that supports it more than it is. Position on the American presence.

It is not possible for one component to impose its vision on the rest of the components and calls for the removal or approaching of Iraq from an international party without the other in isolation from the other components.

Can Iraq live in isolation from its international surroundings?

Since the dawn of history, Iraq has been the scene of world power struggles that have been rotating in control of it. The steadfast party in this conflict throughout history was the Iranian side, as Iran struggled with all the old empires on the land of Iraq, the last of which was its struggle with the Ottoman Empire (the Ottoman Safavid conflict). Therefore, it is not strange that there is an Iranian-American rivalry over this country at the present time, but there is a point that must be clarified in this regard, namely: -

What Iran aspires in this era to achieve in Iraq is direct economic and political control in the service of its ideological ambition in the region. In other words, Iran is moving against modern concepts of the extension of influence, especially on the ideological side. The fact that Iran adopts an ideological viewpoint that wants to export it in the region by making Iraq a base for what follows, and reaching the ultimate goal of complete ideological control over all the countries of the region. Iranian on Iraq is an idea (difficult to digest) on most Iraqi ingredients. In addition, the current Iranian model from the cultural point of view is not the bright and ideal model in the world for the Iraqi street to follow. On the other hand, the American presence in Iraq does not affect the ideological side of any Iraqi component.

Any American-Iraqi communication can be defined as an understanding or rapprochement between them, while any rapprochement from Iran will not have a name other than a complete Iranian hegemony over Iraq, so any popular referendum on the Iranian and American presence in Iraq will be in favor of the American presence and against the Iranian presence even At the Iraqi Shiite component itself.

Demanding the departure of foreign forces means, in one way or another, to remove the Americans only, in return, giving way to the Iranian influence to expand again in Iraq, especially since the political component controlling the Iraqi political process is the parties connected in one way or another to Iran, which will open the door wide open to Iranian influence as soon as it ceases to exist. The American worker from Iraq. Therefore, the American presence is the least necessary in the midst of the current political equations, the automatic balance of the Iranian presence in Iraq. And if the political parties really want to keep Iraq away from any international and regional conflicts, then instead of thinking about how to get the American forces out of Iraq, they should work according to the following points: -

- Maintaining American bases in Iraq as long as there is an Iranian influence represented by the presence of militias close to Iran.

Rather than calling for the removal of American forces, one should think about how to establish a balance between Iranian and American influence in Iraq and try to invest the conflict between the two parties in a way that is in the public interest in Iraq through economic, cultural, social and even political development.

- Iraq can represent the same role that other countries in the region play and its success in distancing itself from all conflicts in the region and turning into a meeting place for the interests of those countries, especially since the Iraqi components are dispersed between these parties. This dispersion can be invested for this goal if organized according to national goals.

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Spike in tensions but no oil market shock, says IEA

January 17, 2020 00:29

PARIS: The brief spike in Middle East tensions as the US and Iran faced off has served as a reminder of the havoc disruptions in supply from the key oil-producing region could wreak on the global economy, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday.

But it said ample stocks and production elsewhere mean the world is relatively well placed to react to a crisis.

Washington and Tehran are currently in a standoff after ***-for-tat military actions over the past two weeks that had sparked fears of a large-scale confrontation that could choke off the Strait of Hormuz through which 20 percent of global oil supplies flow.

“We cannot know how the geopolitical situation will play out over time, but for now the risk of a major threat to oil supplies appears to have receded,” the IEA said in its latest monthly report on oil markets.

It noted that oil prices have receded after jumping $4 per barrel, much as they did in September when a series of attacks on Saudi oil facilities briefly knocked out part of the production of the key exporter.

“Today’s market where non-OPEC production is rising strongly and OECD stocks are 9 million barrels above the five-year average, provides a solid base from which to react to any escalation in geopolitical tension,” said the Paris-based organisation, which advises industrial nations that are members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on energy policy.

“As a back-up resource, the value of strategic stocks has once again been confirmed.”

The IEA was created in the wake of the 1973 oil shock provoked by an embargo imposed by OPEC and IEA members now hold reserves worth three months of net imports.

The oil market has been driven in recent years by a surge of non-OPEC production that has outstripped demand, with OPEC and its allies moving to restrain production to support prices.

The IEA’s forecasts see faster growth in demand for oil this year thanks to expectations that global growth will pick up as trade tensions diminish.

However, the 2.1 million barrels per day (mbd) growth in non-OPEC supplies will far outpace the increased demand of 1.2 mbd, putting further pressure on OPEC and its allies to further cut production.

During 2019, falls in OPEC production nearly completely offset a rise in production from countries outside the group.

 

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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei just called Trump a 'clown'
 
 

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump fired back Friday evening at Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who earlier had mocked him as a "clown" – then in a subsequent tweet Trump said Iran's leaders "should abandon terror and Make Iran Great Again!"

“The so-called ‘Supreme Leader' of Iran, who has not been so Supreme lately, had some nasty things to say about the United States and Europe,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Their economy is crashing, and their people are suffering. He should be very careful with his words!”

Trump tweeted hours after Khamenei called him a "clown" who will "push a poisonous dagger" into Iran's back.

Donald Trump wearing a suit and tie: President Donald Trump speaks before signing a trade agreement with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, in the East Room of the White House, Jan. 15, 2020, in Washington.

In a rare public address as he led Friday prayers in Tehran, Khamenei also defended Iran's military after it mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane.

Khamenei also condemned Trump and the U.S. for the deadly drone strike against a top Iranian general.

“The villainous U.S. government repeatedly says that they are standing by the Iranian people. They lie,” Khamenei said. “If you are standing with the Iranian people, it is only to stab them in the heart with their venomous daggers.”

More: Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls Trump a 'clown,' defends Iran's military

 

 

The so-called “Supreme Leader” of Iran, who has not been so Supreme lately, had some nasty things to say about the United States and Europe. Their economy is crashing, and their people are suffering. He should be very careful with his words!

 
 
 
 

 

In another post Friday evening, Trump later tweeted a message to Iranian citizens, including a riff on his 2016 campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.”

 

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Slide 1 of 50: In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers his sermon in the Friday prayers at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. Iran's supreme leader said President Donald Trump is a "clown" who only pretends to support the Iranian people but will "push a poisonous dagger" into their backs, as he struck a defiant tone in his first Friday sermon in Tehran in eight years.
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In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers his sermon in the Friday prayers at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, on Jan. 17. Iran's supreme leader said President Donald Trump is a "clown" who only pretends to support the Iranian people but will "push a poisonous dagger" into their backs, as he struck a defiant tone in his first Friday sermon in Tehran in eight years.
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“The noble people of Iran—who love America—deserve a government that's more interested in helping them achieve their dreams than killing them for demanding respect,” he said. “Instead of leading Iran toward ruin, its leaders should abandon terror and Make Iran Great Again!”

Trump also tweeted out that message in Farsi.

 

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-warns-iranian-supreme-leader-who-called-him-a-clown-to-be-very-careful-with-his-words/ar-BBZ4sD0?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=mailsignout#image=AABHWVu|50

 

The link has a video and a slideshow for those interested.

 

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