Farhad Alaaldin26 march 2021 Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ali Khamenei stated on March 11, 2021, that “America must get out of Iraq.” That statement was followed by marathon meetings among paramilitary armed groups in Baghdad, Tehran, and Beirut and resulted in a declaration of a cessation of “targeting U.S. forces and …
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Farhad Alaaldin15 Feb 2021When I sat down to speak with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on January 27, he explained his approach to dealing with the many armed, non-state actors in his country.“There are three ways to tackle the issue,” he told me. “The first is to give in to armed non-state actors and lose …
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Farhad Alaaldin3-1-2020The media campaign between America and Iran has escalated in the lead up to the first anniversary of the assassination of Iran’s Quds Force commander, General Qasem Soleimani, and the Chief of Staff of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The two sides intensified their campaigns on social media, especially Twitter, with messages …
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Farhad Alaaldin13th Aug. 2020On July 30, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi announced that early elections in Iraq will take place on June 6, 2021. Following the announcement, various political parties unleashed a barrage of statements in Iraqi media, with some asking for even ‘earlier’ elections. This camp included the President, the Speaker, the UN Assistance Mission …
Farhad Alaaldin28th July 2020The Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament Mohammed al-Halbousi and his deputy met with the parliamentary bloc leaders on 22nd of July to discuss the election law completion. The political parties feel that the election is a way to redistribute power among them and it is expected that the new election will redraw …
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Farhad Alaaldin10th July 2020In the Friday sermon of 31st Jan 2020, the representative of GA Sistani said “ returning to ballot boxes would be the better choice for the current time…. It is imperative to hold an early elections so that the people will have their say”Since then, the political parties adopted the call for …
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Farhad Alaaldin29 june 2020 The October 2019 protests in Baghdad and the southern provinces of Iraq have created a shift in the political process that has been maintained since 2003. It is fair to say that everyone agrees that Iraq’s pre-October protests are not the same as Iraq’s post-October protests. This is reference to the …
Husham Al-Hashimi19 june 2020Former spokesman of the PMU, MP Ahmed Al-Asadi in a talk show with Dr. Nabeel Jasim stated that the Kateoysha cells are acting solemnly and they are unknown groups with no affiliation to the resistance factions.IC and US interests in Iraq are facing repetitive attacks, specially the Katyosha attacks which have been …
Farhad Alaaldin09 june 2020Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has finalized his 22–member cabinet and for the first time since former Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi resigned in December, there are no vacancies or acting-ministers. Kadhimi has moved onto mix up the hierarchy of the Army within the Ministry of Defence, also appointing the straight-shooting Judge Raed …
The observers in the Iraqi-American relations and for the last 17 years cant but see that Iraq has always tackled the problem of lost opportunities. Perhaps its due to the control of the Shiites political parties affiliated with Iran on the sovereignty of the strategic dialogue between the Iraqi and the American negotiators. The deep …
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