The "framework" follows Al-Kazemi's steps in the Basra-Aqaba pipeline, and a faction in the crowd th

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[size=52]The "framework" follows Al-Kazemi's steps in the Basra-Aqaba pipeline, and a faction in the crowd threatens[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]The coordination framework traces the steps of former Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, although he had severely criticized it, especially in the field of foreign policy and the economy.[/size]
[size=45]So far, the Shiite alliance has restored 5 of the policies of the former prime minister, who was accused of normalization with Israel, especially in the issue of extending an oil pipeline from Basra to Aqaba.[/size]
[size=45]The irony is that this project is now close to implementation, according to the statements of Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi, and deputies close to the "framework".[/size]
[size=45]What is more surprising is that one of the popular crowd formations threatens to target the pipeline if the project is completed.[/size]
[size=45]According to what is being circulated in political circles, the government, within the file of relations with the Kingdom of Jordan, will soon start extending the pipeline, whose cost was estimated at more than $8 billion.[/size]
[size=45]According to the Jordanian Al-Ghad newspaper, it said, quoting Prime Minister Muhammad al-Sudani, that: “The oil pipeline from Basra (…) represents the depth and rootedness of Jordanian-Iraqi relations.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani stressed, during a meeting with a Jordanian media delegation that recently visited Baghdad, quoting the same newspaper, that: "It is important for us to take practical steps in this field."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani, when he was a deputy, had previously criticized the extension of the oil pipeline to Aqaba under the pretext that the Al-Kazemi government was then a caretaker, and hinted at the existence of suspicions of corruption in the contract.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, Muhammad al-Halbousi, Speaker of Parliament, announced that the current Iraqi government will soon start implementing the oil pipeline project (Basra-Aqaba).[/size]
[size=45]Al-Halbousi said in a press statement broadcast by the Media Office of the House of Representatives last week at the end of his Jordanian counterpart Ahmed Al-Safadi's official visit to Iraq, which lasted for four days, that the project will see the light soon after the current government worked to overcome the obstacles it faced in the previous stage, within the framework of its plans. to the multiplicity of export outlets.[/size]
[size=45]And he indicated that the most important obstacles that the Iraqi government dealt with is the high financial cost, as a new study was prepared in which the costs were reduced by a large percentage, indicating that all costs will be paid from the Iraqi side exclusively because the project is Iraqi and aims to increase oil exports and thus increase financial revenues.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Halbousi did not give more details about the date of starting work on the project or the new cost.[/size]
[size=45]These statements prompted a military faction, Al-Nujaba, affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces, to attack Shiite parties - which he did not mention - related to the restoration of the oil pipeline.[/size]
[size=45]The head of the Political Council of the Nujaba Movement, Ali al-Asadi, said on Twitter: “After it was issued by Representative Mustafa Sanad, and his meeting with the Jordanian delegation, and regarding the (Daydreaming) tube, we confirm what we said previously that the failure of the Shiite forces in front of money and interests, whatever their names and affiliations, will not make them Except in the classification of one of the enemies ».[/size]
[size=45]He added, "The Jordanians must know that their battle is lost and doomed to failure. The (Basra-Aqaba) pipeline will not be, and if they want, let them try to see with their own eyes what will happen to them and who will help them in that."[/size]
[size=45]Representative Mustafa Sanad had said in press statements that while he was with one of the senior political figures - he did not mention his name - the Jordanian parliament speaker came and told them that they had met with "about 6 Shiite figures and a number of Sunni and Kurdish figures, and all of them agreed to extend the (Basra - Aqaba).[/size]
[size=45]Sanad added, “Those who agreed to the project apply to them, such as (the prince gave what he does not possess), and the people of Samawah will not allow you to do so and will expel you, because we do not forget Fatiha al-Zarqawi and Fatiha al-Bani, the henchmen of the previous regime, and Raghad.”[/size]
[size=45]The Jordanian side, according to Sanad, said: “We need to extend the pipeline. We will take only 200,000 barrels, and you sell the rest.”[/size]
[size=45]And last April, Representative Muhammad Al-Sudani (before he became prime minister) commenting on the decision of the previous Al-Kazemi government when it proposed the project to extend the oil pipeline to Aqaba, said that it was: “a flagrant violation, as it was voted to refer the project to the consortium of the Chinese company CITIC at a cost of $ 9 billion.” ".[/size]
[size=45]In a press statement at the time, Al-Sudani criticized what he described as “blatant camouflage” in presenting a strategic project during the caretaker government stage.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani demanded at the time the Supreme Judicial Council and the Public Prosecution Service to assume its responsibilities and “issue the necessary decisions to stop these suspicious contracts.”[/size]
[size=45]And he stressed, "We have started collecting the signatures of the ladies and gentlemen of the members of the House of Representatives to cancel the Cabinet's decision, stop this contract, and refer it to the next government."[/size]
[size=45]And as part of the campaign to reject the tube, which was confronted at that time by the coordination framework, the representative of Al-Asa’ib, Ahmed Al-Moussawi, said in press statements that it was: “The beginning of a project to push Iraq towards normalization with the Zionist entity.”[/size]
[size=45]Mousawi added, according to what was reported by a Gulf agency: “We will not allow the passage of this project, to prevent Iraq from establishing any relations with Israel under any title.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Moussawi considered that “there are political and governmental bodies and personalities that have been working for a long time to ensure that Iraq is with the Arab countries printing with the Zionist entity, and the Basra-Aqaba pipeline project, whose goal is normalization through the delivery of Iraqi oil to Israel, so that there are economic relations between Baghdad and the usurper entity.” . We did not and will not allow it, whatever the cost.”[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, the representative of the Shiite coalition, Hanan Al-Fatlawi, said at the time of the Aqaba pipeline crisis that it was a project: “It aims only to serve Jordan and has no economic benefit for Iraq.”[/size]
[size=45]And she added in a television interview last April that: “The pipeline has the capacity to transport 200 thousand barrels to a maximum of one million per day of oil, which is the actual need for Jordan, meaning that most of it will be within the Jordanian domestic consumption in the absence of another buyer.”[/size]
[size=45]And she continued, "Iraq will pay 25 cents for each barrel, and the most surprising thing is Jordan's delivery and ownership of the pipeline after 25 years of initiating the export."[/size]
[size=45]Recently, the coordination framework began to gradually back away from the policies that former Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi used to follow.[/size]
[size=45]Wael al-Rikabi, a member of the Badr Organization, told Al-Mada: “Public opinion may find that al-Sudani’s steps are similar to his predecessor, but there is a big difference in content, and the difference will soon appear in the implementation of the new government’s policy.”[/size]
[size=45]The framework had reneged on implementing its previous promises to return the exchange rate of the dollar to 1,200 dinars for every dollar, and to ask the American forces to remain as advisors for an indefinite time.[/size]
[size=45]The Shiite alliance also followed Al-Kazemi’s steps in offering mediation between Saudi Arabia and Tehran and forging a broad partnership with France, which was accused by the “framework” of interfering in internal affairs.[/size]
[size=45]Returning to the Aqaba pipeline, Intisar Al-Jazaery, a member of the Oil Committee in Parliament, said in an interview with (Al-Mada): “The committee has no knowledge of the project’s re-operation.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Jazaery, a member of the Al-Fateh Alliance, added, "The project had been halted due to political and popular rejection in Al-Kazemi's government."[/size]
[size=45]And the former Oil Minister, Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar, had previously announced, following the attack by the “Atatarians”, that the project would be halted and referred to the next government.[/size]
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