Washington is pressing Baghdad to return the Peshmerga to the disputed areas

by **Rocky** Fri 16 Mar 2018, 3:06 am

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Washington is pressing Baghdad to return the Peshmerga to the disputed areas

by Rocky Fri 16 Mar 2018, 3:06 am

Washington is pressing Baghdad to return the Peshmerga to the disputed areas

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The newspaper "New Arab" on Friday, the pressure exerted by Washington on Baghdad to engage Peshmerga forces in the management of disputed areas again, noting that the government has not decided on the subject so far.

The newspaper "New Arab" in a report on a senior Iraqi official said that Washington "wants to be involved Peshmerga in the management of disputed areas again, and pressure on Baghdad for that, but so far the government has not decided on the subject," noting that Kurds "are using the paper the egg Qaban they own in the elections, as their support for any of the two teams Baghdad means to get the prime minister by the electoral majority that will be formed after the elections."

"The Kurds are trying to return the Peshmerga to the areas they came from in Salahaddin, Diyala, Kirkuk and Nineveh through the Joint Operations Room proposed by the Americans," the official said.

He explained that "the problem is that the Kurds are basically outside the Green Line (the borders of the provinces of Erbil, Dahuk and Sulaymaniyah in 2003 before it was approved as a province), and there are cities in which they do not want the Iraqi forces to enter or manage, at a time they must withdraw from them, Seeking to return to Kirkuk and other areas under the title of joint operations. "

According to the same official, "the federal forces have sufficient capabilities to protect these areas and do not need the Peshmerga forces or other, and Iraqi forces treat the population as Iraqis regardless of their race or religion, as evidenced by the population of those areas.

For his part, the leader of the Arab trend in the city of Kirkuk, Ahmad al-Obeidi, that "the Arabs of Kirkuk reject the return of Peshmerga to the region under any names, and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces to prevent the occurrence of this, so there is no cooperation with the Peshmerga again in Kirkuk, We do not interfere in the security policy of the state, "explaining that the reason" is that the Peshmerga practiced ethnic cleansing against the Arabs and Turkomans under the pretext of protecting Kirkuk from dashing. "

Al-Obeidi added that "the Arabs and Turkomans of Kirkuk were pleased with the decision of the leadership to impose the rule of law and the return of the central government to our province for the first time since 2003 and the citizen with security and stability." He said that " , And so far we do not know the fate of the investigation into hundreds of security incidents. " Ending / 25

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