IQD CALLS Chat Early Saturday 2-15-20
IQD CALLS Chat Early Saturday 2-15-20
Chattels Amid governmental instability, it remains unclear whether Baghdad and Erbil will renew their deal which dictates that the KRG must send 250,000 bpd to SOMO in return for its federal budget share from Baghdad. Unconfirmed reports say the two governments have reached oil-for-budget agreement.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/world/14022020
chattels Omar Al-Nidawi@omar_nidawi
Good points by @SajadJiyad The key to compromise/incremental change is getting politicians to collectively recognize the unsustainable conditions they created. This is sadly unlikely when they feel they control the money & guns. Also, most are too proud/not smart enough https://twitter.com/omar_nidawi
chattels REad Iraq’s Protest Movement Is an Existential Challenge for the Political Elite
Sajad Jiyad Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020 https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/28530/in-iraq-protests-pose-an-existential-challenge-to-the-political-elite
KRnMS chattels, much appreciate your info, saw you are worried about Trumps abilities to fight the Iranians due to the Senate vote, fear NOT, he will certainly VETO any bill of that sort even if the HOUSE votes to also curtail his war powers, if Iran tries to roll tanks into Iraq, you know he will take action
chattels KRnMS Concerned that Iran may perceive the vote(s) as weakness as opposed to strength. A wider conflict in the middle east is scary to me.
chattels One of these rocket attacks could set off "Armageddon".
KRnMS Yes, I agree, certainly they will perceive it as such,
KRnMS one of the Republicans that voted for the resolution was from Louisiana, near to me, I was not pleased,
chattels Mohammed Al-Khalidi to / Nina: The new government consists of 22 independent ministers and is awaiting the parliament’s call for a session to pass it
Saturday 15, February 2020 https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=812534
KRnMS it would be so nice if the Iraqi militia would show some backbone
KRnMS and stand up to the Iranian malitia
chattels KRnMS Senator Lee also. He argues that it displays strength.
chattels KRnMS Interestingly the recent military effort against DAESH did not use coalition forces or Hash'd.
KRnMS fool, well I am very annoyed by these rockets , I say hunt them down
KRnMS Senator Lee being the fool, not you, please don’t misunderstand my comment
chattels KRnMS Understood.
chattels Although I may have played and be playing the part of a fool in all of this.
KRnMS perhaps we will see some big changes next week, when the Iranians see they are being deleted from the GOI, and maybe then some fresh orders to Iraqi militia to push back the Iranians, with support from our troops
chattels He explained that the new government consists of 22 ministries who are completely independent and that no name was repeated from the previous ministries, and the ministers were chosen by the Prime Minister-designate.
chattels Al-Khalidi stressed that the political blocs will see the new ministers a day before the vote.
He indicated that the government would pass after it obtained guarantees to pass it from 200 to 220 deputies.
KRnMS no, I don’t think so, I do believe there will be an RI/RV it’s just the Iranians have had such influence, struck terror amongst the Iraqi politicians, Maliki, well you know the story, corruption and terror
chattels Ali Al-Tamimi to / Nina: Passing the government of Mohammed Allawi, or half of it, needs half of the parliament members plus one
Saturday 15, February 2020 https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=812531
chattels Baghdad / Nina / Legal expert Ali Al-Tamimi stressed that: Passing the government of Mohammed Allawi or half of it needs half of the parliament members plus one.
He told the Iraqi National News Agency ( NINA ): The Prime Minister-designate needs to gain the confidence of Parliament over half of the parliament plus one, as well as give him confidence in the ministerial platform.
chattels Salam Al-Shammari: The new government will gain the confidence of Parliament before the end of the constitutional period
Saturday 15, February 2020 https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=812536
chattels The constitutional period is 30 days and it began with the designation of Allawi on February 2.
chattels There are reports that Allawi will present his program and ministers to an emergency session of Parliament as early as this Sunday or Monday.
chattels KRnMS How long have you been invested ?
chattels I am in South Carolina. Are you near or far ?
KRnMS anyone in this chat that spouts the nonsense that there will never be an RV, takes for granted all the support USA has given to Iraq after wiping out Saddam’s army, then flooding the country with dollars to support their economy, providing guidance to build a democracy, building such huge facilities ,
the embassies in Baghdad and Kurdistan, plans for more bases, etc and CBI has given us the plan of deleting the zeroes, so we wait, we pray for Allawi to unite the Iraqis and stand strong against the evil of Khomeini’s regime. Who cares how much dinar is in circulation, we printed it!!
KRnMS heck I lost count of how many years! I’m in MS
chattels KRnMS You in or near the Delta ?
KRnMS Chattels, I heard the Blue Hats are actually UN peacekeeping forces protecting the Iraqi Demonstrators from the Iranian militia
KRnMS and fake news is reporting them as Sadr Blue Hats killing Iraqis, when actually they are UN firing upon Iranians, how about that?
KRnMS no not in the Delta, but I have spent time working there
KRnMS UN forces wear blue helmets
chattels Iraq is at a crucial crossroads. Its new premier is struggling to form a cabinet, anti-government protests are filling the streets and skyrocketing tensions between its two main allies, Tehran and Washington, have already spilt blood on its territory.
While Iran enjoys tremendous political and military sway in Iraq, the US still holds a major trump card -- the economy.
chattels Every month or so, Iraq's Central Bank flies in $1 billion to $2 billion in cash from the Federal Reserve in New York, where all its oil revenues are kept, to pay for official and commercial transactions.
But the mid-January shipment was more than a week late, a top Iraqi official and an oil industry source said, citing "political reasons" for the White House decision.
"We are on a knife's edge," the Iraqi official said.
chattels "This is the beginning of death by a thousand cuts," warned financial analyst Ahmed Tabaqchali, of the Iraq-based Institute of Regional and International Studies.
"The shorter the waiver, the more we can't afford for things to go wrong in that time."
chattels Washington has considered blocking the funds to pressure Iraq for months, a senior US diplomat in Baghdad said, describing it last year as "the nuclear option".
chattels Nina:: Political blocs press Muhammad Allawi to accept their candidates for ministries and offer to dissolve parliament as pressure card on him. https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=812559
chattels " ............... the lack of approval of the political blocs in parliament on the cabinet cabinet of Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi will take us to the first square, where the authority of the Prime Minister will be transferred to the President of the Republic on the 2nd of next month, and this matter will lead to more complication of the political scene in the country, with the refusal of some political blocs for this measure.
Chattels Baghdad / Nina / The expert in economic affairs, Safwan Qusai, stressed that the delay in approving the budget will reflect on economic stability and create complex problems for the next government in the delay in meeting the demands of the people. https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=812546
chattels Deputy for Al-Fateh: Failure to pass the Allawi government this week will force the parliament to dissolve itself
[Baghdad-Ain]Deputy Fateh Fadel Jaber, a coalition member, warned on Saturday that failure to pass the government of Prime Minister-designate Muhammad Tawfiq Allawi, which he will present this week, will compel parliament to dissolve himself within a maximum period of six months in order to hold early elections. http://www.alliraqnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=86791
chattels "in the event that the cab is not passed, the President of the Republic will assume the presidency of the Council of Ministers for the conduct of business, thereby forcing Parliament to dissolve itself within a maximum period of six months and to hold early elections."
chattels A member of the House of Representatives for the Iraqi Forces Alliance, Muhammad Karbouli, ruled out a session of parliament this week. Al-Karbouli said in a statement to an Arab newspaper that "there is no agreement to hold a session of the parliament this week because it is subject to mechanisms and consensus, and not just because someone wants to hold it while negotiations on forming a government have not ended yet."
Al-Karbouli added: "Our alliance did not meet the Prime Minister-designate despite his many attempts to meet us and we will not meet him if his policy remains the same." http://www.alliraqnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=86784
chattels Karbouli and the Iraqi Forces Alliance are Sunni.
chattels ISIS remain ‘very much intact’, should be taken seriously: PM Barzani https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/15022020
chattels “Yes, they have lost much of their leadership. They have lost many of their capable men.But they’ve also managed to gain more experience and to recruit more people around them. So they should not be taken lightly,” he added.
chattels Barzani’s comments to the outlet came before a meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany to “boost military and security cooperation” against the jihadists. He is also expected to meet with US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on Saturday morning.
Pompeo hailed the meeting as a "productive conversation" in which he thanked Barzani for his "steadfast partnership and commitment to ensuring the security of US facilities and personnel in the Kurdistan Region."
chattels KRnMS Thought you might appreciate the following article : Who are Sadr's Blue Hats in Iraq and what side are they on?
Adnan Abu Zeed February 13, 2020
Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/02/muqtada-sadr-iraq-blu-hats.html#ixzz6E1ciythk
Chattels The Iraqi Prime Minister-designate, Muhammad Tawfiq Allawi, announced today, Saturday, the announcement of his government formation this week, describing the step as a "historic achievement." https://www.rudaw.net/arabic/middleeast/iraq/1502202012
chattels He added: "We will put the names of this booth this week, God willing, away from rumors and leaks."
He went on to say: "We hope the members of the House of Representatives will respond and vote on them in order to start implementing the people's demands."
chattels Iraqi anti-riot forces try to advance on Tahrir Square in Baghdad. https://twitter.com/Newsofiraq/status/1228696646118264838
chattels Courtesy of David M. Witty https://twitter.com/DavidMWitty1/status/1228710125671714818
chattels The Iraqi Prime Minister-designate, Muhammad Tawfiq Allawi, has completed his cabinet, and he is ready to present it to Parliament to gain confidence. According to press statements by Iraqi lawmakers, his cabinet is ready for voting starting tomorrow, if a parliamentary session is held. https://www.rudaw.net/arabic/middleeast/iraq/150220201
chattels He pointed out that the new government has “outstanding issues like 140 regions and the Kurdistan Region’s share of the budget and the peshmerga and oil and gas salaries, and these are matters that can be developed between the federal government,” explaining: “Muhammad Tawfiq Allawi has excellent relations with the brothers in the Kurdistan Region and is ready to negotiate to solve the crisis That will be resolved only through dialogue. "
He expected that there will be "a breakthrough in many issues in the future between Erbil and Baghdad, and the region will have a major role in the next government and the solution of problems," stating that "90% of (Shiite) MPs agree with the government and 50-55% of the Sunnis, while the Kurds are a state Especially, negotiations are continuing and could yield good results. "
chattels Reidar Visser@reidarvisser - ·US govt is enthusiastic about those aspects of #IraqProtests that it likes (anything anti-Iran) but betrays protesters when it panders to quota-oriented parties and interests & thereby makes the strong technocratic govt wanted by the protesters less likely https://twitter.com/reidarvisser?lang=en
chattels Irked US squeezes Iraq with cash delays, short waivers https://news.yahoo.com/irked-us-squeezes-iraq-cash-delays-short-waivers-025812392.html