Experts warn against ending the economic feasibility of the Faw port project through rail link with

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[size=52]Experts warn against ending the economic feasibility of the Faw port project through rail link with Iran[/size]

[size=45]The parties in power in Iraq pass on Iran's projects and put its interests ahead of the interests of the country and its people.[/size]
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[size=45]The governments of Baghdad and Tehran are silently leading accelerated efforts to complete a project to extend a railway between the two countries, without announcing the completion stages after warnings from economic experts about the feasibility of the project on the Iraqi economy.[/size]
[size=45]The linkage project, which is carried out through the province of Basra, provides a service to the Iranian economy, which suffers from international sanctions, to import goods to Iraq, without having a significant benefit on the Iraqi economy.[/size]
[size=45]Economists warn that the railway connection with Iran will facilitate the supply of Iranian goods, while Iraq has nothing to export to Iran.[/size]
[size=45] For his part, the former Minister of Transport, Amer Abdul-Jabbar, revealed that there is an internal and external agenda to obstruct the grand Faw port project, stressing that Iran is “deprived of the rail link, because it is the first beneficiary of it,” noting that there is a possibility for Iraq to Iran bargaining between the rail link and bypassing it on the Shatt al-Arab. Abdul-Jabbar expressed his astonishment at the Baghdad government's passing of all Iranian requests and projects it serves in Iraq with ease. In his television interviews, he affirmed his rejection of the issue of the railway link between Iraq and Kuwait or Iran, and said, “The railway link harms Iraq, as it will make ships go to the ports of Kuwait and Iran,” which will negatively affect the Iraqi economy . [/size]
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[size=45]The former local official in Basra Governorate, Ali Al-Hassani, described the railway connection with Iran as a “suspicious file,” adding in an interview with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper, that “most of the political forces supporting this project are clearly allies of Iran, and have sought during the past period to disrupt any Iraqi efforts.” To revive the port of Al-Faw, as it itself rejected the railway connection with Kuwait and accepted it with Iran, although there is no difference between this and that .”[/size]
[size=45]Despite the objections, those familiar with the situation in Iraq point out that the followers and allies of Iran from the parties, militia factions and political figures, in parliament and the government, are doing everything they can to support Iran and mitigate the effects of international economic sanctions on it, even if this is at the expense of Iraq's interest. .[/size]
[size=45]In the context, writer and political researcher Dr. Rafe’ Al-Falahi said in an interview on Al-Rafidain TV, “The ruling militias in Iraq with their parties and forces have echoed the slogan ‘Everything is for Iran’,” in reference to putting Iran’s interests ahead of the interests of Iraq and its people. He stressed that Iran’s choice of Iraq as its corridor is In order to make it an outlet for smuggling contraband because there is no control over this corridor, which must be rejected by the Iraqi people and national forces and to prevent the completion of their project by controlling Iraq and the region .[/size]
[size=45]For his part, the economic expert, Dr. Sabah Alo, said in a telephone interview with Al-Rafidain TV, “Iran seeks to fully control Iraq’s capabilities and economy, including foreign trade, and what Iraq can obtain from the Silk Road project with China that passes through the great port of Faw,” stressing that Regional powers are trying to isolate Iraq economically and commercially and prevent the completion of the completion of the port of Al-Faw and linking it to the Chinese Silk Road through Iran's activation of the railway connection agreement, and Kuwait's establishment of the Mubarak port in the Arabian Gulf .[/size]
[size=45]Political observers believe that the project embodies in practice the idea of ​​linking the Iranian spheres of influence in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, opening the way for free and direct communication with Iran's proxies in the three countries, and supplying the militias operating on the territories of those countries with various types of logistical support, including weapons and others.[/size]
[size=45]So far, there is talk of an Iraqi-Iranian agreement to complete a very small part of the huge project, which is the extension of a railway from Shalamcheh to Basra with a length of no more than 32 kilometers.[/size]
[size=45]Iranian Minister of Roads and Cities Building Rostam Qassemi said, "The railway linking project between Iran and Iraq will start working soon because it is gaining importance for both," explaining that "the railway link project between the Iranian cities of Shalamcheh and the southern Iraqi Basra will be accompanied by the establishment of a joint investment and operation company soon .[/size]
[size=45]Talk of a rail connection to the shores of the Mediterranean jumps on the complex security situation in both Iraq and Syria, where the movement of trains will be in vast stretches, most of which are unsafe deserts.[/size]
[size=45]The project will face financial difficulties, as Iraq does not seem able in the foreseeable future to bear the high material cost of the part that extends within its territory, while the possibility of searching for foreign financiers and investors in the project seems almost non-existent due to the high level of risk in it.[/size]
[size=45]According to official figures, during the past year, Iran exported about 20 million and 800 thousand tons of various products, equivalent to 5 billion and 900 million dollars to Iraq; It aspires to increase this number to $20 billion annually.[/size]
[size=45]The Iraqi public policy consultant, Manaf Al-Sayegh, warned that the railway linking project between Basra and Shalamcheh would empty the economic importance of the great Faw port, which is currently being built.[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that the railway project with Iran does not give the real efficiency of the Faw port, and will kill the basic idea of ​​the giant project. [/size]
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[size=45]Economists say that the Ministry of Transport, under the caretaker government, fired a bullet of mercy at the great port of Faw, through the railway connection with the Iranian side, at a time when observers are wondering about the feasibility of this fateful decision taken by the ministry and not waiting for the formation of the new government and its discussion before the concerned authorities. .[/size]
[size=45]The port of Al-Faw suffers from reluctance in the process of its completion, although its presence will lead to the opening of Iraq to the world and provide the country with great returns and reduce transport and import prices, and this is what Iran does not accept.[/size]
[size=45]Independent reports confirm that the Iranian economy with all its joints swallowed about 90% of the Iraqi market. A report by Souq, one of the local organizations concerned with the Iraqi economy, had previously warned that “Iran will turn, within years, into an owner and controller of the Iraqi economy without a competitor .”[/size]
[size=45]The report pointed to Iranian banking incursion, investment in Iraqi state-owned factories or the mixed sector, and control of commercial sectors, such as the automobile, iron, electrical and household appliances market, as well as tourism .[/size]
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