Analysts: Militias are involved in blowing up electricity towers for financial, loyalty and revenge

[size=52]Analysts: Militias are involved in blowing up electricity towers for financial, loyalty and revenge reasons[/size]

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[size=45]Pages on social media have published pictures of the targeted electricity towers in the Jurf al-Sakhar area, which has been under the control of militias and armed factions loyal to Iran since it was recaptured from ISIS in October 2014, and prevents its residents - a majority Sunni - from returning to it.[/size]
[size=45]Political analysts and security experts accuse the pro-Iranian armed factions and militias of having the upper hand in disrupting and blowing up electric power towers, so that Iraq can import energy from Iran with huge amounts of double.[/size]
[size=45]Militias blow up electric towers[/size]
[size=45]The writer and political analyst, Kitab Al-Mumayzan, confirms this by saying in a statement to (Basnews) that “the explosion of electric power towers is linked to three things. He pointed out that "this calls for some parties, including the militias, to blow up the towers and invest them financially through contracting to rehabilitate them."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Mizan added, “The other thing that calls for the bombing of those towers by the militias loyal to Iran is that the export of energy from Iran affects the sources of providing electrical energy significantly, given the low water level in Iran, which has become under public pressure due to the continuous interruptions.” He pointed out that "the bombing of these towers is an excuse to cut off the electricity and thus not to supply Iraq by Iran with energy and transfer it to the Iranian interior."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Mizan added: “There is also another reason for the bombing of these towers by the armed factions and militias, which are retaliatory and sabotage reasons that aim to cut off electricity to the western and southern governorates, and they are tantamount to sanctions for those areas because in the south there are ongoing demonstrations against the loyal militias, and as for the western regions, One of the leaders in the popular crowd said on the anniversary of the Speicher massacre: (We will cut off water and electricity to these cities in retaliation for Speicher).[/size]
[size=45]Terrorists obstruct the lives of Iraqis[/size]
[size=45]During his visit to the Ministry of Electricity, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi confirmed that "the terrorists and their supporters continue their attempt to impede life in Iraq. After they were unable to confront our heroic armed forces, they are constantly targeting electrical power stations and towers."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Kazemi indicated that “there are imaginary forces that are working to ensure that Iraq does not reach self-sufficiency in energy and gas, and are trying to impede these efforts by every means. The continuous targeting of the electricity sector is trying to prevent the stability of the electrical system, especially after the opening of two modern and important stations in Dhi Qar and Salah al-Din.[/size]
[size=45]He indicated that the Crisis Cell will follow up and act as quickly as possible in response to any violations targeting the electric power transmission towers.[/size]
[size=45]As Al-Kazemi explained during his visit, "Whoever abuses the energy sector through corruption, negligence, or political bargaining over the years, his action is no different from what terrorism does today by targeting energy transmission lines."[/size]
[size=45]He called "not to turn the electricity sector into a subject for political and electoral struggles, as the citizen has suffered enough from these conflicts and we are working with all efforts to provide electric power to the citizens."[/size]
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[size=45]Terrorists obstruct the lives of Iraqis[/size]
[size=45]During his visit to the Ministry of Electricity, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi confirmed that "the terrorists and their supporters continue their attempt to impede life in Iraq. After they were unable to confront our heroic armed forces, they are constantly targeting electrical power stations and towers."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Kazemi indicated that “there are imaginary forces that are working to ensure that Iraq does not reach self-sufficiency in energy and gas, and are trying to impede these efforts by every means. The continuous targeting of the electricity sector is trying to prevent the stability of the electrical system, especially after the opening of two modern and important stations in Dhi Qar and Salah al-Din.[/size]
[size=45]He indicated that the Crisis Cell will follow up and act as quickly as possible in response to any violations targeting the electric power transmission towers.[/size]
[size=45]As Al-Kazemi explained during his visit, "Whoever abuses the energy sector through corruption, negligence, or political bargaining over the years, his action is no different from what terrorism does today by targeting energy transmission lines."[/size]
[size=45]He called "not to turn the electricity sector into a subject for political and electoral struggles, as the citizen has suffered enough from these conflicts and we are working with all efforts to provide electric power to the citizens."[/size]
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[size=45]Corruption and quotas[/size]
[size=45]In the opinion of writer and journalist Ali Al-Talqani, "Corruption has different aspects and has its causes as well, and the best evidence for this is the deterioration of the health and service reality, mismanagement and the failure to put the right person in the right place."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Talqani said: "We did not see a real and effective accountability of a senior official," noting that "all positions in Iraq have become subject to the quota system, even if these positions are for non-qualified persons, but were not subject to real accountability and control."[/size]
[size=45]The Iraqi parliamentarian, Huda Jarallah, did not rule out, in an interview with some media, that corrupt and foreign parties were behind the operations targeting the electric power system in Iraq, to ​​preserve their interests, by disrupting any attempt to end the electricity crisis in the country.[/size]
[size=45]Jarallah affirmed, “Iraq has been trying for years to end the electricity crisis, but without any result, and is still dependent on commercial generators. There is no doubt that corruption is behind any possibility to end this file, because it is prevalent in all institutions and joints of the Iraqi state.”[/size]
[size=45]And the parliamentarian considered, “The failure of the electricity crisis in Iraq to end is an indication of the existence of this corruption, in addition to the existence of political and economic interests of foreign countries, and that the targeting and sabotage are deliberately taking place on the electricity system to prevent the electricity crisis file from ending.”[/size]
[size=45]In sum, the electricity crisis in Iraq is intertwined in a complicated way between the spread of corruption in the joints of the Ministry of Electricity and the intervention of armed factions in the interest of neighboring countries and terrorist attacks on power towers and other obstacles to the lack of progress in the electric power sector in Iraq.[/size]
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