Hoshyar Zebari, witness to a stage: This is how Iran obstructs the solution in Iraq

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[size=52]Hoshyar Zebari, witness to a stage: This is how Iran obstructs the solution in Iraq[/size]

[size=45]Riyadh - Dubai September 28, 2022[/size]
[size=45]Former Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in an exclusive interview with the media, two members of Al-Ahmari on the “Al-Madar” program on Al-Sharq channel, that Iran prevented a majority government in Iraq directly “through the Quds Force and senior officials,” attributing Tehran’s influence in Iraq to the “weakness of Iraqi leaders.” .[/size]
[size=45]Zebari considered that “the Iranian influence has weakened after the killing of Qassem Soleimani,” as Iran no longer has the upper hand in light of “popular resentment against some political forces,” as he put it.[/size]
[size=45]In a remarkable statement, Zebari said that Iran had exercised a direct threat against some politicians in Iraq, especially after the withdrawal of confidence from Nuri al-Maliki in 2012 by Sunni and Kurdish leaders such as Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani. Talabani".[/size]
[size=45]Zebari considered that the Iranians tried to stop his candidacy for the presidency, adding that there was no "targeting of my person, but of the change project in Iraq, and the Constitutional Court is involved in this matter through decisions to exclude candidates." And he considered that officials in Iran "did not hide their intention to obstruct the agreement between the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi and the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, considering that" the Saudi-Emirati-Gulf project."[/size]
[size=45]On the crisis of disrupting state institutions, Zebari said that “the Federal Court was exploited to disrupt the work of institutions and create confusion to prevent the election of a president of the republic and then the nomination of a prime minister.”[/size]
[size=45]The minister, who was foreign minister for 11 years, surpassing all foreign ministers in Iraq's modern history, added that Muqtada al-Sadr has a large popular base and political awareness, revealing that the Kurdistan Democratic Party demanded al-Sadr to return the Sadrist movement's deputies to parliament.[/size]
[size=45]Zebari said that "the Sadrist movement made a strategic mistake by withdrawing from parliament, as it had the opportunity to dissolve parliament instead of withdrawing from it." The Speaker of Parliament hastened to accept the collective resignations of the Sadrist movement.”[/size]
[size=45]He considered that "the (Shiite) coordinating framework is afraid of early elections."[/size]
[size=45]Regarding reports related to corruption in Iraq, the former Minister of Finance revealed that an Iraqi bank smuggled 6 billion and 400 million dollars to banks in Jordan and Lebanon, considering that influential political forces are behind the smuggling of money from Iraq, while speaking at the same time about corruption contracts in the Ministries of Electricity and Oil. And about (fake) space armies.[/size]
[size=45]The Iraqi Council of Representatives withdrew confidence from Hoshyar Zebari in September 2016 after being questioned on corruption charges.
In his conversation with Al-Ahmari, Zebari denied the charges brought by the Iraqi parliament and the judiciary against him, saying that they are "unfounded, unjust and baseless accusations" and that the judiciary has not issued "any criminal conviction" against him.[/size]
[size=45]Zebari considered that the region is on the verge of an escalation because of what he called Iran's arms in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq, revealing that he was part of the discussion on the issue of the US withdrawal in Iraq, which he opposed at the time. The Obama administration team has a kind of indifference to the region.”[/size]
[size=45]Zebari concluded the hour-long meeting by talking about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia making offers to Iraq related to development, investment, trade exchange and energy cooperation, but some politicians in Iraq obstructed such cooperation.[/size]
[size=45]Journalist, two members of Al-Ahmari, meet every week on the Al-Madar program from the British capital, London, with decision makers and opinion makers to answer the Arab street's questions about the most controversial issues. The program is shown on Al Sharq TV every Friday at 2:00 pm Saudi time.[/size]
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