Al-Sudani gets rid of the pressure of the factions and runs the intelligence after Washington’s advi

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[size=52]Al-Sudani gets rid of the pressure of the factions and runs the intelligence after Washington’s advice[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]Muhammad al-Sudani, the prime minister, is walking in a minefield, as his commitments to the political forces are subject to continuous tremors that may lead to a near clash. The new prime minister faces tests in the issue of “expulsion of militias,” “fighting corruption,” and “the neutrality of sensitive security sites.”[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, the prime minister is not a free man. Rather, information indicates that political parties are monitoring his movements step by step. Yesterday, Al-Sudani officially announced his administration of the intelligence service, days after leaks of severe disputes that took place between the former and Shiite parties regarding the vacant site.[/size]
[size=45]The Prime Minister’s media office said in a statement that the latter “carried out, on Sunday, a visit to the headquarters of the National Intelligence Service, and upon his arrival met with directors of directorates and advanced cadres in the agency, and listened to a comprehensive presentation of the progress of work and the implementation of tasks and duties.”[/size]
[size=45]At the beginning of the meeting, Al-Sudani stressed, according to the statement, "the importance of the agency maintaining its work course in accordance with the competence decreed for it in accordance with the constitution."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani directed, according to the statement, “that the administration of the device at the current stage, be within his direct personal supervision from a lower position.”[/size]
[size=45]The position became vacant after the prime minister dismissed Raed Jouhi (former chief of the apparatus) last week, as part of the decisions to cancel the orders of the previous caretaker government.[/size]
[size=45]From that moment on, a marathon was launched to take control of the position, according to informed sources, who indicated that more than one party had disputed over the position.[/size]
[size=45]A former Shiite MP said in an interview with (Al-Mada) that: "The intelligence service and other security sites provide cover for political groups in the transfer of information, people, goods and weapons."[/size]
[size=45]Sources had revealed earlier that "parties within the coordination framework tried to keep the factions away from these positions as much as possible."[/size]
[size=45]During the past few days, information was leaked about a competition between Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq and the Hezbollah Brigades to manage this apparatus.[/size]
[size=45]However, the former MP, on the other hand, revealed “the possibility of circumventing the fact that the factions took over the position by managing them from behind the scenes by choosing a person close to them who has no objection.”[/size]
[size=45]According to the information being circulated, the US contacts and the repeated visits of the US ambassador to Sudan and the parties to the "framework" were forging an agreement between the two parties on several issues.[/size]
[size=45]The agreement that is being talked about is to keep armed groups away from the security and financial joints and prevent oil smuggling in exchange for agreeing to the coordination framework government.[/size]
[size=45]And last Friday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had contacted Prime Minister Muhammad al-Sudani, in the first call by a high-ranking US official to the prime minister since assuming the position, and during the call, he congratulated al-Sudani, according to a government statement.[/size]
[size=45]The statement stressed that the two parties affirmed: "the mutual commitment to the strategic framework agreement between the two countries, and the common interests in preserving Iraq's security, stability and sovereignty."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani had put forward the idea of ​​“postponing the holding of special positions” until an evaluation is conducted through a committee he formed during the period of preparation for taking over the prime ministership.[/size]
[size=45]The former MP says that "the Sudanese, who was subjected to severe pressure from the coordination framework during the period of forming the government, is now trying to escape from these restrictions, but sometimes he failed."[/size]
[size=45]The deputy transmits information circulated in the closed rooms of the parties, that one of the well-known Shiite leaders - with reservations that his name be mentioned - imposed several conditions on Al-Sudani, including the position of director of the office.[/size]
[size=45]He added, "The name of Tariq Najm, a leader in the Dawa Party, was imposed on Al-Sudani to run the office of the Prime Minister, and then it was replaced by another name close to the Dawa."[/size]
[size=45]The well-known leader also imposed that “a special group of his guards guard Al-Sudani so that he is under 24-hour surveillance.”[/size]
[size=45]Leaks had talked about the appointment of Ihsan Al-Awadi as Director of the Prime Minister's Office. Al-Awadi is a former deputy of the State of Law and recently published documents accusing the latter of corruption.[/size]
[size=45]Information was also leaked about the appointment of a close associate of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, Nader Rabie, as director of the media office of the Prime Minister, and the latter was the director of the Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq channel.[/size]
[size=45]News also leaked about the appointment of Ali Shamran as director of the decrees department in the prime minister's office, Abdul Karim al-Sudani as military secretary, and Ali al-Amiri as secretary to the prime minister.[/size]
[size=45]Returning to the intelligence crisis and sensitive security sites, the former deputy says that “the coalition of sovereignty in the discussions on forming the government also demanded the position, and it may be insisting so far on its request.”[/size]
[size=45]The Sunni forces had demanded the coordinating framework during the agreement to form the government with a number of demands, the most controversial of which is the “withdrawal of the factions” from the cities.[/size]
[size=45]The former MP speculates that “parties in the framework will not allow under any circumstances to withdraw the crowd from the Sunni cities.”[/size]
[size=45]And he indicated, "The Sudanese, on the other hand, may be subjected to attack because of his anti-corruption policy as a ready response from the framework if he approaches the file of the factions, especially since there are indications that some Shiite forces are not satisfied with the management of the last file."[/size]
[size=45]The deputy considered that “the intensity of news published during this period about the expansion of the attacks of terrorist gangs of ISIS in those cities means an indication of the continuation of the security threat, and therefore the continued need for the survival of the crowd.”[/size]
[size=45]The same applies to the city of Sinjar, north of Mosul, where the agreement with the Kurdish forces to withdraw the armed groups, two years after the failure to implement the normalization agreement concluded in the previous government of Mustafa Al-Kazemi.[/size]
[size=45]At the annual conference of the Arab Project, which is led by the head of the Sovereignty Alliance, Khamis al-Khanjar, the latter told his supporters in Nineveh Governorate that his party “agreed with the government on several issues, including the withdrawal of militias from cities.”[/size]
[size=45]There was no comment from the coordination framework on al-Khanjar's words, except for what was said by the military spokesman for the Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement, Jawad al-Talibawi, who confirmed that the Popular Mobilization Forces were the ones who liberated the cities and the guarantor of the security of their people.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Talibawi said in a tweet on Twitter, in response to Al-Khanjar's speech, that "the unruly militias that offend them are the ones who failed your ISIS project."[/size]
[size=45]He added that "the people of the crowd who liberated the cities are the real guarantor of the security of their people from repeating the treachery of the takfiri groups that I called the clan revolutionaries," noting that "the leaders of the framework do not agree with those who have become addicted to treason."[/size]
[size=45]Meanwhile, Muhammad Salman, a former Sunni MP, questioned the ability of the Sunni forces to keep the factions away from western cities.[/size]
[size=45]Salman said in an interview with (Al-Mada) that "the Sunni forces are unable, and therefore they are not serious in seeking to expel the factions."[/size]
[size=45]Salman, who presents himself as an opposition politician, added: "Some Sunni leaders are unwilling to expel the factions because they have interests with some of these groups."[/size]
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