Thursday Afternoon Iraq Parliament News Highlights 9-29-22
Thursday Afternoon Iraq Parliament News Highlights 9-29-22
An Expected Breakthrough.. The Kurdish Forces Announce The End Of The Crisis In Choosing A Candidate For The Presidency
Posted On2022-09-29 By Sotaliraq An expected breakthrough.. The Kurdish forces announce the end of the crisis in choosing a candidate 209262
On Wednesday, a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Repin Salam, confirmed that the Kurdish forces have resolved their position on the candidacy of the President of the Republic, noting that the Shiite dispute is delaying the convening of parliamentary sessions.
Salam said in a televised interview that "the parliament session is a promising matter, and the formation of the government will be completed in accordance with the announced agreements."
He added, "The Kurdish parties have settled the dispute over the candidate for the president of the republic, and it will be announced when the presidential election session is held."
He continued, "The split in the Shiite house has greatly affected the reaching of agreements between the Kurds, and that the formation of a strong ministerial cabinet must be expedited to solve and confront the crises that Iraq is going through. LINK
Kurdistan Region Health: The Number Of Victims Of The Iranian Bombing Reached 32 Wounded And Nine Martyrs
Posted On2022-09-29 By Sotaliraq The Minister of Health of the Kurdistan Region announced in a joint press conference with the Governor of Erbil that the number of victims of the Iranian bombing of the headquarters of the Kurdistan opposition parties in the territory of the Kurdistan Region amounted to 32 wounded and nine martyrs.
In his statement, Saman Barzanji expected that "the number of martyrs will rise, as there are many obstacles that impede the arrival of ambulance teams to the targeted sites to rescue the wounded."
Earlier today, the Minister of Health of the Kurdistan Region stated that the Iranian bombing of the headquarters of the Iranian Kurdistan parties inside the territory of the Kurdistan Region resulted in the death of three people and the wounding of 16 others, explaining that two deaths were recorded in Koysanjak Hospital, and the third case in a hospital in Erbil.
According to the information of Rudaw Media Network, a 55-year-old woman named Hajar and a 33-year-old man named Milad died as a result of their injuries in the bombing.
The bombing of the Azadi camp, which houses the women and children of members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iran (Hadaka), resulted in the injury of a pregnant woman who miscarried after being transferred to Koysangaq Hospital. The woman was then transferred in a critical condition to Erbil hospitals.
In a statement, the al-Hamza base of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, based in Urmia, announced that it had used "Fateh 360" missiles and booby-trapped drones to strike the headquarters of Iranian Kurdistan parties in the Kurdistan Region.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards accused the opposition Iranian Kurdish parties of seeking to “stir up sedition.” That is why the Iranian Revolutionary Guards carried out this military operation, which is still ongoing against these parties.
At about 10:30 a.m. this Wednesday (September 28, 2022), the headquarters of most of the Iranian Kurdistan parties in the Kurdistan Region were targeted by “drones and missiles.” Hadka’s spokesman, Khaled Azizi, told Rudaw Media Network that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards used various types of missiles in The bombings that targeted the vicinity of a children's school in Koysanjak, and the targeted sites are not military, but entirely civilian.
Subsequently, the correspondent of Rudaw Media Network reported that six other missiles were directed at the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iran (Hadka) in Koysanjaq district.
The correspondent of Rudaw Media Network in Shirawa, Ranja Jamal, also stated that the headquarters of the opposition Iranian Kurdistan Freedom Party in Shirawa were targeted at 1:35 pm this afternoon six times in a row.
Ranga Jamal added that teams of journalists were present at the targeted site and he called them by phone and told him that they were injured and called for help.
The head of the Iranian Kurdistan Freedom Party, Hussein Yazdan Banna, told Rudaw Media Network that "there are martyrs and wounded among our ranks."
For his part, a member of the Central Committee of the Iranian Kurdistan Toilers Association (Komala), Aram Modarisi, told Rudaw that Iran had bombed our headquarters this morning using drones, "and there were no casualties among us...and four houses and headquarters were damaged."
According to the information of Rudaw Media Network, a 55-year-old woman named Hajar and a 33-year-old man named Milad died as a result of their injuries in the bombing.
Regarding the damage caused by the bombing, the director of the Martyr Khaled Hospital in Koysanjak, Kawa Saber, stated that the hospital has received 15 wounded and two deaths so far.
The mayor of Koysanjak district, Tariq Al-Haidari, told Rudaw that “Iran targeted today the fortress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iran (Hadka) in Koysanjak, and the losses are not yet known.” The bombing included Hadka camp and its military sites in Koysanjak.
Regarding the human and material losses caused by the bombing, the mayor of Koysinjaq district said: “(Losses) are not yet known, because we cannot approach the targeted sites.”
The videos received by Rudaw show that the bombing operations have affected many different areas of the Kurdistan Region, as the headquarters of the Iranian Kurdistan parties in Zarkweez, Koysinjak and Sherawa were bombed.
The commander of the Peshmerga units in Bardi (Alton Kobri), Nuri Hama Ali, stated that the Iranian bombing of the headquarters of the Iranian Kurdistan parties led to the "martyrdom and wounding of a number of Peshmerga" and that their headquarters were damaged.
The correspondent of Rudaw Media Network, Hiwa Husam Al-Din, from a location close to Shirawa, indicates that the bombing hit the center of the targeted headquarters, which resulted in heavy losses to the targeted headquarters, but the human losses have not yet been counted, and there are wounded and deaths.
The guide of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iran, Ibrahim Gokli, said: "The air and missile bombing targeting the headquarters of the parties of Kurdistan Iran began at 10:30 this morning, Kurdistan Regional Time, and is still continuing, and the democratic parties have begun to respond to the planes of the Islamic Republic of Iran."
The aforementioned bombing affected the headquarters of the parties, schools, and civilians as well, in which children and women were injured, and the total losses are not yet known. The guide of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iran adds: “The number of wounded and martyrs is not known for a number, but it is known that the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iran are targeted with drones and missiles. “. Disclaimer: All published articles represent the opinion of its authors only LINK
Shakhwan Abdullah: The Bombing Of More Than One Iraqi Governorate Yesterday Is A Dangerous Transformation
Shafaq News/ Shakhwan Abdullah, Deputy Speaker of Parliament considered, on Thursday, the bombing that targeted more than one Iraqi province a "dangerous shift" that suggests that it is part of the state of Iran.
Abdullah said during his hosting at the Al-Rafidain Forum for Dialogue, that "everything that is happening now is due to the weakness of the Iraqi government. It is true that there are summons to ambassadors, but this is not enough, as the Iraqis are asking for more."
He added that Iraq is a sovereign country that has international support in protecting its sovereignty, adding: Yesterday there was a dangerous shift by targeting more than one Iraqi governorate with dozens of missiles and drones, as if this geographical spot is part of the neighboring country, and it uses all its capabilities to protect this spot, noting that the response On such violations, the unity of the Iraqi political forces shall be in place.
Regarding the early elections in Iraq, Abdullah said: The early elections must be preceded by a political agreement in order to accept the upcoming results, stressing that the political forces must have a political consensus before holding any elections.
He also said: If we want political stability, we have to involve all political forces, especially the Sadrist movement, for the upcoming political process, and we count on dialogue and the effort made by the political blocs.
Regarding the Iraqi constitution, the deputy speaker of parliament said, “It is a very good constitution and the best constitution in the region, and the problem is not in it, but in the lack of application of its articles.” Failure to implement this constitution, which led to weakness in the administration of the state.
He cautioned that there is no representation of the components in the Iraqi government, and this is a violation of the Iraqi constitution, and there is more than one constitutional violation in this aspect.
Abdullah concluded that it was the defect in the administration of the country that unjustly represented the Iraqi components in the Iraqi governments, stressing that the application of the constitution is the solution to ending the current problems in Iraq and the failure to implement the constitution brought Iraq to what we are. LINK
Al-Maliki's Coalition Ignores The Rockets And The Demonstrations And Talks About The Upcoming Sessions
Posted On2022-09-29 By Sotaliraq On Wednesday, a member of the State of Law coalition, Jawad Al-Ghazali, ignored the missile attacks on the Green Zone in conjunction with the convening of the parliament session, suggesting that the sessions will be held, the president of the republic will be chosen and the government will be formed in the coming days.
Al-Ghazali said in an interview that “the party that targeted the Green Zone today is an unknown and so far unknown party.”
He added, "The bombing took place in an area that is not densely populated, and the damages are not great as a result of this bombing."
Al-Ghazali added that "the role of the security forces was good in maintaining security in conjunction with the holding of the parliament session," noting that "the bombing that took place was outside the control of the security forces charged with protecting the Green Zone and the nearby areas."
He pointed out that "the coming days may witness the holding of Parliament sessions, the selection of the President of the Republic and the formation of the government, because Iraq is in dire need of a government with full powers."
On Wednesday, the Green Zone in Baghdad was hit by three missiles, coinciding with the parliament session. LINK
Hoshyar Zebari, Witness To A Stage: This Is How Iran Obstructs The Solution In Iraq
Posted On2022-09-28 By Sotaliraq Riyadh - Dubai September 28, 2022 Former Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in an exclusive interview with the media, two members of Al-Ahmari on the “Al-Madar” program on Al-Sharq channel, that Iran prevented a majority government in Iraq directly “through the Quds Force and senior officials,” attributing Tehran’s influence in Iraq to the “weakness of Iraqi leaders.”
Zebari considered that “the Iranian influence has weakened after the killing of Qassem Soleimani,” as Iran no longer has the upper hand in light of “popular resentment against some political forces,” as he put it.
In a remarkable statement, Zebari said that Iran had exercised a direct threat against some politicians in Iraq, especially after the withdrawal of confidence from Nuri al-Maliki in 2012 by Sunni and Kurdish leaders such as Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani. Talabani".
Zebari considered that the Iranians tried to stop his candidacy for the presidency, adding that there was no "targeting of my person, but of the change project in Iraq, and the Constitutional Court is involved in this matter through decisions to exclude candidates." And he considered that officials in Iran "did not hide their intention to obstruct the agreement between the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi and the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, considering that" the Saudi-Emirati-Gulf project."
On the crisis of disrupting state institutions, Zebari said that “the Federal Court was exploited to disrupt the work of institutions and create confusion to prevent the election of a president of the republic and then the nomination of a prime minister.”
The minister, who was foreign minister for 11 years, surpassing all foreign ministers in Iraq's modern history, added that Muqtada al-Sadr has a large popular base and political awareness, revealing that the Kurdistan Democratic Party demanded al-Sadr to return the Sadrist movement's deputies to parliament]
Zebari said that "the Sadrist movement made a strategic mistake by withdrawing from parliament, as it had the opportunity to dissolve parliament instead of withdrawing from it." The Speaker of Parliament hastened to accept the collective resignations of the Sadrist movement.”
He considered that "the (Shiite) coordinating framework is afraid of early elections."
Regarding reports related to corruption in Iraq, the former Minister of Finance revealed that an Iraqi bank smuggled 6 billion and 400 million dollars to banks in Jordan and Lebanon, considering that influential political forces are behind the smuggling of money from Iraq, while speaking at the same time about corruption contracts in the Ministries of Electricity and Oil. And about (fake) space armies.
The Iraqi Council of Representatives withdrew confidence from Hoshyar Zebari in September 2016 after being questioned on corruption charges.
In his conversation with Al-Ahmari, Zebari denied the charges brought by the Iraqi parliament and the judiciary against him, saying that they are "unfounded, unjust and baseless accusations" and that the judiciary has not issued "any criminal conviction" against him.
Zebari considered that the region is on the verge of an escalation because of what he called Iran's arms in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq, revealing that he was part of the discussion on the issue of the US withdrawal in Iraq, which he opposed at the time. The Obama administration team has a kind of indifference to the region.”
Zebari concluded the hour-long meeting by talking about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia making offers to Iraq related to development, investment, trade exchange and energy cooperation, but some politicians in Iraq obstructed such cooperation.
Journalist, two members of Al-Ahmari, meet every week on the Al-Madar program from the British capital, London, with decision makers and opinion makers to answer the Arab street's questions about the most controversial issues. The program is shown on Al Sharq TV every Friday at 2:00 pm Saudi time.