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butterfly   Al-Zayadi: The Framework Is Determined To Reduce The Price Of The Dollar

Economic Last Update 02/06/2022 | 10:08 AM  The representative of the State of Law coalition, Muhammad Al-Ziyadi, confirmed, on Sunday, that the coordination framework is determined to reduce the exchange rate of the dollar in the event that he participates in the political process, pointing out that reducing the price will be one of the conditions for voting on the Prime Minister for the next government.

Al-Ziyadi told Al-Maalouma, "The coordination framework rejected the rise in the dollar exchange rate against the dinar when voting on the 2021 budget, as this caused great damage to various segments of the people."

He added, "Whoever was the reason for passing the budget at the current dollar price, today enjoys the majority in Parliament, and it is hoped that the course will be corrected by decreasing the exchange rate."

And Al-Zayadi, "The coordination framework, and if it is part of the political process, it will set a condition when voting on the prime minister, as the candidate will not pass without obtaining a word from him to reduce the exchange rate, but by going to the opposition, then he cannot set the conditions but demand adjusting the price. https://almaalomah.me/2022/02/06/580684/

butterfly   Iraq Without Projects In 2022” .. A Statement By The Ministry Of Planning Regarding The Current Year's Budget

ECONOMIC 02/05/2022 | The Ministry of Planning announced, on Saturday, that projects will not be included in the current year’s 2022 budget, while confirming its work to complete the projects that continue to work.

The spokesman for the Ministry of Planning, Abdul-Zahra Al-Hindawi, told the Iraqi News Agency, and it followed him (the information), that "the ministry did not include new projects in the 2022 budget, and there are ongoing projects within the investment plan and the regional development plan."

He added, "There are quite a few projects that are ongoing and are currently being worked on according to the funds allocated in the 2021 budget, and work continues in the current year until they are completed according to the timelines allocated to each project, whether implemented by ministries or local governments in the governorates."

He continued, "As for the suspended projects, there is work to resume them by solving the problems that led to their suspension and restarting them." https://almaalomah.me/2022/02/05/580622/

butterfly   Politicians Criticize The Government's "Scramble" To Connect The Electricity With Saudi Arabia

ECONOMIC 2022/02/06 | 8:54 AM   Political parties, in addition to specialists in the energy file, criticized the government’s position regarding the electrical connection with Saudi Arabia, stressing that this approach will not solve the crisis at a time when the defect in the electricity crisis has been diagnosed.

The former deputy of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Karim Al-Muhammadawi, told Al-Maalouma, "There are external interventions in the Iraqi energy file in order to achieve American goals, the latest of which is the electrical connection with Saudi Arabia, which is a political project that does not serve Iraq's interest, as it is better to invest money to establish new stations."

On the other hand, the specialist in energy affairs, former MP Abbas Yaber, explained to Al-Maalouma, "Iraq does not need to import energy, as it has stations that are supposed to produce 31,000 megawatts, but the problem that prevents this is the inability to The distribution system will secure this energy as well as the problems in the network.”

On the other hand, the representative of the State of Law coalition, Aref Abdel Jalil, stated to “The Information” that “the government’s going to the electrical connection with Saudi Arabia will not achieve any benefit or economic return for Iraq, in addition to the fact that the imported energy will constitute only 1 percent of the country’s need, as It will cost Iraq a lot of money.”

In a related development, a member of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Uday Al-Khadran, told Al-Maalouma that "Iraq will lose 12 billion dollars as a result of the electrical connection with the Saudi side, while Iraq will not need such an amount if it produces the energy it needs on its territory." https://almaalomah.me/2022/02/06/580670/

butterfly  The Federal Court Issues A State Decision To Stop Zebari's Candidacy For The Post Of President Of The Republic

Politician Last Update 02/06/2022 | 3:19 PM  On Sunday, the Federal Court decided to stop the procedures for electing Hoshyar Zebari for the presidency of the republic.

And the court stated, in a brief statement, that "the Federal Supreme Court issued a state order to stop the procedures for the nomination of Hoshyar Mahmoud Muhammad Zebari for the position of President of the Republic."

She explained that the suspension is "until the decision of the call numbered 17/Federal/2022."

The nomination of Hoshyar Zebari for the position of President of the Republic sparked a wave of popular and political anger because of his involvement in corruption charges. https://almaalomah.me/2022/02/06/580785/

butterfly   Has al-Sadr reached a synthesis to lead Iraq after the elections?

The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, confused the political scene in Iraq, hours after he called his bloc not to vote for Masoud Barzani's candidate for the presidency, and at a time when the three leading figures in Iraq, President Barham Salih, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, and Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi appeared together on an occasion that suggested that they were the group that Sadr's opinion settled on it to lead a post-election Iraq.

The three leaders called on Saturday to overcome political differences and expedite the formation of a capable Iraqi government that is not subject to external pressures and is not subject to tutelage from anyone.

Barham Salih: We need a serious review of our overall political situation and the establishment of a new political contract

butterfly   In words during a celebration commemorating the killing of Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim in 2003, they unanimously agreed on the need to work to protect the interests of the people, renounce political differences and achieve security and stability.

It was clear that the three words carried the same orientation that al-Sadr held and expressed on more than one occasion regarding the focus on the future and overcoming conflicts, and the formation of an Iraqi government that is not subject to any external pressures.

"We have to put the interests of our people at the forefront and provide everything it deserves at all levels," Al-Kazemi said.

He added that "political differences should not reach the foundations of state-building. There are international bets on the failure of democracy in Iraq, which will remain the safest way to coexistence because the Iraqi people are loyal to everyone who serves them."

For his part, Barham Salih called for "working to build an Iraq that Iraqis deserve in terms of services, security and stability, and that we stand today in front of the aspirations of a people that has long suffered from crises and disasters of wars, tyranny and terrorism, and the time has come to overcome them through good governance."

“We need a serious review of our overall political situation and the establishment of a new political contract, and we must support the democratic option in choosing the president of the republic,” Saleh said, stressing the need to “form a government that achieves the national ambition and aspirations of the people, a capable Iraqi government that is not subject to external pressures and is not subject to tutelage from anyone.” .

In parallel, Al-Halbousi stressed that "compliance is not in Iraq's interest, nor is there a return to previous failures, and we seek to have a circulation of power without threat, and that the Iraqi parliament today is more capable of achieving urgent requirements."

butterfly   The rhetoric calling for overcoming the post-election partisan accounts, which casts a shadow over the atmosphere of government formation and the selection of the new president, coincided with the Sadrist bloc's decision to boycott the parliament session devoted to choosing the country's president, and to freeze government formation negotiations with the political blocs until further notice.

This came in a press conference held by Hassan Al-Adhari, head of the "Sadr bloc" in Parliament, which topped the recent parliamentary elections, at the Parliament headquarters in the capital, Baghdad.

Iraqi sources told "Al-Arab" that the Sadrist bloc's decision to boycott Monday's session to elect the president of the republic, as well as freeze negotiations with all blocs, is due to the fact that the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, was not satisfied with the course of the consultations taking place regarding reaching a consensus candidate for the presidency, especially the position His Kurdish allies in the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Massoud Barzani.

butterfly   The sources added that al-Sadr showed in a tweet to him on Friday that he was against the position of the Kurdistan Democratic Party regarding the nomination of Hoshyar Zebari, and in light of Barzani's adherence to his position, al-Sadr's decision on Saturday was to stop all consultations and boycott the electoral session, in a move that confirms that he adheres to his stubbornness in categorically opposing Zebari's position. Waving to veto all understandings that were made about the government.

And if Al-Sadr’s comment on Friday was decisive in the matter of not accepting the nomination of Hoshyar Zebari, but he does not want to appear who supports the nominations of the coordination framework as well, and that the absence of the Sadrist bloc from the session will avoid embarrassment by voting for the same candidate, i.e. the outgoing president Barham Salih, who Al-Sadr sees as the closest person To his options in the war on corruption, supported by the coordination framework, defiance in Zebari.

Muhammad Al-Halbousi: We seek to have a transfer of power without threat

Iraqi observers say that Al-Sadr's problem with the Kurdistan Democratic Party and its leader Barzani is not only related to the issue of Zebari's nomination, but Barzani opened channels of communication with the coordination framework under Iranian sponsorship, and that the focus of the initiative he presented a few days ago is based on making the framework part of the government consensus, which Al-Sadr rejects as long as Nouri al-Maliki was part of it.

butterfly   Zebari's involvement in corruption has angered part of the public in recent days, causing embarrassment to Muqtada al-Sadr, who presents himself as an anti-corruption.

Muqtada al-Sadr wrote on Twitter on Friday, "If the candidate of the Democratic Party allied to the presidency of the republic does not meet the conditions, I call on the reform representatives not to vote for him."

A deputy from the Sadrist bloc, who preferred not to reveal his identity, told AFP that "the decision to withdraw is directed at the Kurds, and in particular the Democratic Party, in order to agree on one Kurdish candidate for the post of President of the Republic."

He added that Zebari "did not enjoy national and popular consensus in light of political and popular objections to it."

Parliament dismissed Zebari in 2016 after corruption scandals and suspicions of embezzlement of public funds were exposed.

Zebari confirmed in an interview on Friday that "no conviction was issued (against him) in the Iraqi judiciary," stressing that "the issue of accusing him of corruption and withdrawing confidence from him as Minister of Finance was politicized."

The charges against him included spending $1.8 million on tickets for his bodyguards https://rawabetcenter.com/archives/141999

butterfly   The leader of the Sadrist movement "kills the match" to win the "final"

As usual, the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, returns to his tactic, which has repeatedly succeeded in diverting the course of suffocating crises. Withdrawal and freezing leave others, adversaries and allies, forced to wait immobile. In the complex of forming the government and electing the new president of the republic, he leaves the negotiations, monopolizing the maneuvering cards for himself.

The head of the Sadrist bloc in Parliament, Hassan Al-Adari, surprised everyone by announcing yesterday, Saturday, the freezing of government negotiations, and not attending the parliament session, tomorrow, Monday, “on the orders of Al-Sadr.” During the past hours, everyone engaged in complex and unknown calculations about the constitutional timing of the government formation path, and the fate of the existing alliances between the majority and its opponents.

Before al-Sadr's latest position, the atmosphere was filled with frightening expectations of what the majority government project would lead to. Some of the signals that the Sadrists said they had received over the past few days allude to “burning everything and everything,” before al-Sadr succeeds in what he wants.

Al-Sadr chose the controversy of competition between Barham, Saleh, and Hoshyar Zebari for the position of President of the Republic, a prelude to his recent retirement. There is a political ploy directed at the coordinating framework forces, and at the same time an explicit message to the Kurdish ally to extinguish the president’s crisis or postpone it until a different political circumstance, but Al-Sadr’s last move, in general, is a maneuver similar to its predecessors when he decided to withdraw from the electoral race, to kill the “match” against his opponents.

butterfly   Al-Sadr's "volatility", as Iraqi analysts like to describe it, is today among his options for implementing his project, which he describes as "reformist", and it is also a realistic response to the political impasse and the lack of quick solutions to the crisis. Well-informed sources say that al-Sadr informed his guests in al-Hananah, Nechirvan Barzani, Muhammad al-Halbousi and Khamis al-Khanjar, of his plan to “disrupt the negotiations to win them,” and force the “coordinating framework” to accept al-Sadr’s conditions, and in this sense he wants to proceed with his project without modifications imposed by others, or leaving the government to those Wants.

But al-Sadr chose a withdrawal that would not only upset the frameworks’ plans, but would also involve everyone in unprecedented options, including harassment of legal timings, starting with choosing the president of the republic and assigning the largest bloc’s candidate to the prime minister. This will be the first time that the country will witness an indefinite vacuum, which is not addressed by the Iraqi constitution. Al-Sadr may have chosen this high level of "harassment" of the regime to stifle his opponents.

Al-Sadr robbed the “blocking third” card from the forces of the coordination framework. It does not make sense anymore, after they spent the past days gathering enough representatives to stop the presidential election session. An informed political source says that the parties to the framework held a meeting on Saturday afternoon to discuss new options after Al-Sadr's recent position. https://rawabetcenter.com/archives/141993

butterfly   SFC decision suspended the Presidential election session, legal expert says 2022-02-06 08:36

Shafaq News / Legal expert, Ali al-Tamimi, said the recent decision of the Federal Supreme Court did not only suspend Hoshyar Zabari's candidacy, but also all the Parliament's measures to hold the Presidential election session.

Al-Tamimi said that the session is now suspended until further notice, indicating that it will only be held after the Federal Court finalizes the complaints against Zebari's candidacy.

Earlier today, the Supreme Federal Court suspended the candidacy of Hoshyar Zebari. https://www.shafaq.com/en/Iraq-News/SFC-decision-suspended-the-Presidential-election-session-legal-expert-says

butterfly   Iraq in talks with China to acquire FD-2000B air defense missile systems- Report 2022-02-06 09:23

Shafaq News / The bilateral relations between China and Iraq have seen smooth development since the two countries established diplomatic relations on August 25th, 1958. During the Gulf Crisis in 1990, China stopped economic, trade and military exchanges with Iraq according to relevant UN resolutions. After the Gulf War, China implemented some trade exchanges with Iraq under the Oil-for-Food plan.

In the year 2012, Iraq became the 4th largest Arabic trade partner of China. The bilateral trade volume reached 17.569 billion US Dollars, with a year-on-year growth of 23.13%. China imported 15.68 million tons of crude oil from Iraq, with a year-on-year growth of 13.87%.

Citing information published by the Chinese Press News Agency XINHUANET, in August 2018, Chinese President Xi Jinping said, China attaches great importance to developing relations with Iraq, and stands ready to promote their strategic partnership for greater development.

China would like to support Iraq's efforts to defend its national sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, fight against terrorism and safeguard its national security and stability.

According to the SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) arms trade database, in 2015-2016 China has delivered 12 CH-4 armed UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and 100 FT-9 guided bombs to Iraq.

The FD-2000 is the export variant of the HQ-9 a long-range semi-active radar homing (SARH) surface-to-air defense missile (SAM) system developed by the Chinese defense industry. The missile is capable of intercepting precision-guided weapons as well as UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), helicopters, and fighter aircraft.

The missile of the FD-2000 is armed with a 180 kg warhead, has a maximum speed of Mach 4.2. and has a maximum range of 125 km up to an altitude of 27 km. The FD-2000B is an improved version that has a maximum firing range of 300 km and is equipped with a passive infrared seeker.

Source: Army Recognition https://www.shafaq.com/en/Iraq-News/Iraq-in-talks-with-China-to-acquire-FD-2000B-air-defense-missile-systems--Report

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