Saturday AM Iraq Parliament News Highlights 12-3-22
Saturday AM Iraq Parliament News Highlights 12-3-22
The border crisis with Iran... Will it open the way for the deployment of federal forces in Kurdistan?
December 3, 2022 Baghdad / Obelisk: Iraq deploys its security forces on the borders of the Iraqi Kurdistan region bordering Iran, amid an Iranian welcome, and questions about the extent of the region's cooperation, which is sensitive to any federal forces on the land of Kurdistan.
The Iranian government accuses the Kurdish opposition factions of fomenting the unrest in Iran since September 16. However, the Kurdistan Regional Presidency showed cooperation by declaring, on Monday, that Erbil and Baghdad would cooperate and coordinate fully to protect border security.
And both the Sudanese Prime Minister and Nechirvan Barzani stressed that no threats or military operations targeting neighboring countries across the borders of Iraq and the Kurdistan region should be allowed.
The leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Ghiath Surji, says that the party has expressed its approval for the deployment of Iraqi military forces on the border strip with Turkey and Iran, indicating that it is the best solution to prevent a military attack by Turkey and Iran.
Activist Muhammad al-Nasseri believes in a tweet on Twitter that the deployment of security forces on the region's borders with Iran and Turkey does not solve the crisis, indicating that Kurdistan refuses to submit to the center and its outlets and oil outside Baghdad's control.
On November 23, Iraq announced its intention to redeploy its forces on its borders with Iran and Turkey, after repeated bombings targeted the areas of the Kurdistan region.
Follower of Iraqi affairs, Montaser, warns on Twitter against the deployment of federal forces in the northern region of Iraq before entering into four-way talks involving (Iran, Turkey, Syria, and Iraq). And change the constitution of the Kurdistan region.
The observer of the political situation, Abu Ali Al-Tamimi, talks about the regional government's refusal to enter any federal forces, considering that the region must prove its ability to protect Kurdistan, while the activist Abdul Karim Al-Ghadban asks if the federal government can send federal security forces to control the border crossings in the Kurdistan region?
While Thaer al-Subaihawi recalled the incident of the Kurdish forces besieging a licensed headquarters for the Hashd, wondering whether the federal forces could practice the same activity in any village in Kurdistan. Prepared by Muhammad Al-Khafaji https://almasalah.com/archives/30858
Israel Is Preparing For A “Broad War” Against Iran, And Iraq Is In The “Pink” Color Of The Confrontation Map
Posted On2022-12-02 By Sotaliraq An Israeli analyst predicted today, Friday, that Israel is heading towards confronting Iran with a “broad war,” which may turn its army into a “militia,” while he pointed out that Iraq is painted pink in the confrontation map, according to the Palestinian Sama News Agency.
The agency quoted Nahum Barnea, a political analyst in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, as saying, “There are two armies in Israel, not one army operating in parallel with each other.
“The first is smart, brilliant, his uniform is neat and expensive. This army is busy preparing for a war the like of which we have not seen, and there is great doubt if it will break out once. The other army fights daily with the Palestinians and the Jews at the West Bank checkpoints.
The two armies compete for their place on the Israeli agenda, for attention and for money. There are points of intersection between them, but no coincidence of interests. The first army soars to the sky, and the other sinks into the quagmire of the occupied territories.
He added that “the policy of the new government, which is being formed by the head of the Likud party, Benjamin Netanyahu, with the parties of the extreme right, “threatens to transform the Israeli army from an army into a militia, and from an official apparatus into a political apparatus.”
According to Barnea, “Palestinian Hebron is a very marginal point on the map of the other Israeli army, which is preparing against Iran. A large red arc emerges from Iran to Syria and Lebanon, flooding Gaza and Yemen in red, and dyeing Iraq, Qatar, and currently Turkey also in pink; A blue arc emerges from Israel and dyes Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the UAE in purple.
At the top of the map, Azerbaijan and the Kurdish regions appear, which are important places for Israeli regional military activities.
He stated that the Israeli army describes the confrontation between Israel and Iran as a "regional competition" to gain the support of the countries of the region. During the last year, Israel made a strategic decision, which is that “the Israeli army prepares for a direct war, on multiple fronts, with Iran.
The intention is to develop capabilities that allow the Israeli army to severely target infrastructure and government sites in Iran, and in parallel to that accelerate the development of defense systems to repel the thousands of missiles that will be fired at Israel from Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. LINK
Turkmen Parties And Representatives: The Application Of Article 140 Will Cause A Civil War In Kirkuk
2022-12-03 02:48 Shafaq News/ On Saturday, the Turkmen parties and parliamentarians renewed their position rejecting the implementation of Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution, warning at the same time of the possibility of a "civil war" breaking out in the disputed Kirkuk governorate between Erbil and Baghdad if the procedures for implementing this article proceed.
This came in a joint press conference held by the head of the Turkmen Front, Hassan Turan, with representatives of the Turkmen parties and deputies of the component, in which he read a joint statement issued by them after a meeting they held today at the Front's headquarters.
Turan said during his recitation of the statement, "What was circulated by some officials about reviving Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution, which was referred to in the government program with the complicity of everyone and the absence of the Turkmen.
The clear position of the Turkmen is that this article failed to find sustainable, peaceful solutions to the issue of Kirkuk and the paragraphs The positive aspects related to resolving property disputes and returning the lands seized by the defunct regime have not been implemented so far.
And he added, "The report of the United Nations mission on this article has indicated clearly that the paragraphs contained in this article, such as the referendum, may be a reason for igniting the civil war between the components of Kirkuk," according to the expression of the statement.
The conferees also denounced - as in the statement - what they called "the deliberate absence of the forces of the State Administration Coalition of representatives of the Turkmen component in the meetings held by the coalition, as if there were secret provisions that had been agreed upon and some fear that the Iraqi people would see them at a time when we fully believe that any solution to the issue
The so-called disputed areas are done through constructive dialogue and with the participation of the components of the Kirkuk governorate, and we will not accept the conclusion of deals or agreements between Baghdad and Erbil, which have proven their failure in previous years.
The conferees expressed their refusal to include the province of Kirkuk and other Turkmen regions in the recent decision of the Council of Ministers to own houses built on agricultural lands unless the file of property disputes is resolved and the land is returned to its legal owners due to the rift it causes in social peace in the province and the loss of the rights of the legal owners of the land, considering that that "it will be a cause for demographic change, which is prohibited by Article 23 of the Iraqi constitution."
Turan also went on to say, "The forces forming the State Administration Alliance are still procrastinating in assigning one of the ministerial positions and political positions to the Turkmen component, with a clear intention to marginalize the Turkmen component."
The head of the Turkmen Front continued, saying, "This marginalization and silence compels us to take escalatory steps to defend our national and national existence."
And the Minister of Justice, Khaled Shwani, had recently announced the activation of Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution, whose implementation has been suspended since 2014, which affected the discontent of the Arab and Turkmen component in the disputed areas.
Kirkuk is one of the disputed areas between Erbil and Baghdad that are covered by Article 140 of the constitution, and it was subject to a joint authority between the Kurdistan Region and the federal government before the independence referendum that the region conducted in September of 2017.
Article 140 stipulates the removal of demographic policies conducted by Saddam Hussein's regime in the disputed areas in favor of the Arabs at the expense of the Kurds, and then a census of the population before the last step, which is a referendum in which the population determines whether they wish to join the Kurdistan Region or remain under the administration of Baghdad.
It was scheduled to complete the stages of implementing the article until the end of 2007, but security and political problems prevented that.
In 2019, the Federal Supreme Court ruled that Article (140) of the Constitution of the Republic of Iraq remains in effect, stressing that this will continue until its requirements are implemented and the goal of its legislation is achieved. LINK
December Events: Parliament Finishes The First Reading Of The Draft For Iraq's Accession To The Nuclear Safety Agreement
December 3, 2022 Baghdad / Obelisk: Saturday, December 3, 2022
Parliament ends the first reading of the project for Iraq's accession to the Nuclear Safety Agreement.
Parliament gives confidence to Bankin Rikani, Minister of Construction and Housing
The House of Representatives votes to grant its confidence to Nizar Muhammad Saeed Namidi, Minister of Environment
The House of Representatives holds its session headed by Al-Halbousi
Al-Sudani holds a meeting with the governor of Salahuddin and local officials
Sudanese arrives Salahuddin
On Thursday, December 1, 2022, the three presidencies held a meeting at the Peace Palace in Baghdad, which included His Excellency the President of the Republic, Dr. Abdul Latif Jamal Rashid, the Prime Minister, Mr. Muhammad Shia Al-Sudani, and the Speaker of Parliament, Mr. Muhammad Al-Halbousi.
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Announcing The Formation Of An Opposition Parliamentary Bloc To Follow Up On The Work Of The Government
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The Iraqi Parliament completes the cabinet of the Sudanese government by granting confidence to two ministers
2022-12-03 04:23 Shafaq News/ Today, Saturday, the Iraqi Parliament voted to grant confidence to the Minister of Construction, Housing, Municipalities and Public Works, Bankin Abdullah Rikani, and to Minister Nizar Muhammad Saeed Amidi.
Shafaq News agency reporter said that the parliament held its session headed by Muhammad al-Halbousi, Speaker of Parliament, after the completion of the legal quorum, in the presence of 208 members.
A statement issued by the Media Department of the House of Representatives stated that an absolute majority voted to grant confidence to the two ministers, and thus the ministerial cabinet of the current federal government headed by Prime Minister Mohamed Shia Al-Sudani has been completed.
It is noteworthy that the House of Representatives had voted, at the end of last October, on the cabinet of the Sudanese, with the exception of the Ministries of Environment, Construction and Housing, as a result of the differences that took place over the two positions by the two Kurdish parties (the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan), as the political agreements that preceded the government specified a share The Kurdish component has four ministries, in addition to the position of the President of the Republic, and the second deputy speaker of Parliament. LINK