The prime minister cuts half way through pledges with the Sunnis and 4 demands for the Kurds

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[size=52]The prime minister cuts half way through pledges with the Sunnis and 4 demands for the Kurds[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]Washington's responses to the factions backed by Tehran seem to remain outside Iraqi territory, in compliance with the agreement with Prime Minister Muhammad al-Sudani, who in turn proceeds to satisfy his partners inside.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani decided to cancel security permits in hot spots, while Baghdad awaits the arrival of a Kurdish delegation to implement the legislative and executive provisions within the political agreement.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, it is believed that the recent attack on the border with Syria, which targeted factions affiliated with Iran, was the first response to the killing of Stephen Troll, the American citizen who was assassinated last week in central Baghdad.[/size]
[size=45]A local official in Al-Qaim, on the border with Syria, said, in an interview with (Al-Mada), that "planes bombed trucks smuggling oil from Iraq to Syria near the border town of Albu Kamal."[/size]
[size=45]Factions in Anbar since 2016 (during their presence under the pretext of fighting ISIS) have been smuggling weapons, oil and scrap to Syria and Lebanon.[/size]
[size=45]"The victims, estimated at about 20 people, are mostly from factions affiliated with Tehran and known in Anbar," the official, who requested anonymity, confirmed.[/size]
[size=45]The official refused to specify the identity of those factions, but indicated that "the attack came 24 hours after the killing of the American citizen in Karrada."[/size]
[size=45]And researchers in the security issue had suggested earlier, during conversations with (Al-Mada), that Washington would respond to the killing of "Troll" sooner or later, whether inside or outside Iraq.[/size]
[size=45]Prime Minister Muhammad al-Sudani had previously announced the opening of an investigation into the incident that took place last week against an American citizen working for relief organizations in Iraq.[/size]
[size=45]Information was leaked to (Al-Mada) about the initial results of the investigation, following the accident, which was carried out by unknown persons who shot the victim’s car, killing him on the spot, that the perpetrators were “loyal to Tehran.”[/size]
[size=45]The unknown bombing of Iraqi-Iranian factions in the Syrian Albu Kamal area near Iraq came as part of a “punitive” policy that Washington has used in recent years.[/size]
[size=45]And before the last elections (which took place on 10/10/2021), Al-Mada revealed Iraqi demands that the United States keep the response operations against the factions outside the borders.[/size]
[size=45]And Washington, according to political sources close to Al-Sudani’s office, seems “committed not to stir up problems at home and to liquidate militias outside Iraqi territory.”[/size]
[size=45]Washington's rare admission 3 years ago of bombing Hezbollah headquarters in Al-Qaim, in the far west of Iraq, caused the factions to storm the US embassy in Baghdad in 2019, then Parliament demanded the removal of US forces (the second withdrawal completed at the end of 2020, according to a government statement).[/size]
[size=45]Accusations in the killing of "Troll" are once again directed at Kata'ib Hezbollah and Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, especially since the two factions have previous threats to target US forces.[/size]
[size=45]In the first response to the accusations, the leader of the Asa'ib Movement, Saad al-Saadi, confirmed: "Asa'ib or any other resistance faction has nothing to do with the assassination of the American citizen, and we do not target civilians, and this action is condemned by us."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Saadi, a member of the political bureau of Asa’ib, stated in press statements that “the assassination of the American citizen carries political goals, as it wants to embarrass the new government, headed by Muhammad Shia’a al-Sudani, and try to stir up internal and external opinion against it because of this security breach.”[/size]
[size=45]According to a report by US agencies, she said, "The militia that carried out this attack (the assassination of Troll) is undoubtedly emanating from one of the largest Shiite militias backed by Iran, such as Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq or Kata'ib Hezbollah."[/size]
[size=45]And those reports showed that the method of assassination is similar to that of the separator: “Where previously unknown groups claim attacks on American interests, and everyone remains wondering who this group is. This is done to provide plausible deniability to the larger militias in order to reduce the scale of retaliatory attacks.”[/size]
[size=45]A group calling itself “Saraya Ahl al-Kahf” had claimed responsibility for the assassination, in retaliation for the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani (commander of the Quds Force) and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis (head of the Mobilization Forces).[/size]
[size=45]Managing understandings[/size]
[size=45]The incident angered the Shiite coordinating framework, which had just started a partnership contract with the United States in exchange for a pledge to stop targeting foreign interests in Iraq.[/size]
[size=45]Muhammad al-Sudani, the prime minister, manages the understandings with Washington with the mandate of his Shiite allies, as he also began to implement the pledges he made with the “framework” of the Sunni partners.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani decided to stop what is known as “security clearances,” a condition that was set after the spread of “ISIS” in 2014 in exchange for completing transactions in hot areas (Anbar, Nineveh, Salah al-Din, Kirkuk, Diyala, and some areas of Baghdad).[/size]
[size=45]Ahmed Al-Badrani, an activist in Mosul, said in an interview with (Al-Mada) that "the security clearance was causing the disruption of transactions, especially compensation files, for several years."[/size]
[size=45]And Al-Badrani stated that obtaining the security clearance "created gangs that take bribes in exchange for obtaining the permit."[/size]
[size=45]This measure came as part of a previous agreement between the prime minister, the coordination framework and the Sunni forces in return for the support of the Sudanese government.[/size]
[size=45]Last Friday, Al-Sudani spoke of what appeared to be signs of a re-investigation of the so-called "secret informant" cases.[/size]
[size=45]The Prime Minister said, according to a statement by his office, that “whoever has been subjected to any form of torture or forced extraction of confessions, must submit his complaint to the Prime Minister’s Adviser for Human Rights, backed by evidence.”[/size]
[size=45]The Sunni forces had, in previous times, longed to drop the charges that came through the “secret informant,” most of which were considered malicious. They also criticized “extracting confessions through torture.”[/size]
[size=45]What remains before the government's commitments in the Sunni-executive part is to expel the factions from the western cities, and it is believed, according to observers, that these may be the most difficult provisions of the agreement and may overthrow the Sudanese.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, it seems that some of Al-Sudani’s measures may be unacceptable to the Kurds, as a member of the House of Representatives for the Democratic Party, Vian Dakhil, called on the National Security Council to reverse the decision to cancel the security audit in the liberated areas, describing it as a “great disaster.”[/size]
[size=45]Dakhil said in a press conference in the parliament building that the security audit is “very important and followed in all countries of the world,” wondering how to abolish it in a country like Iraq, in which “terrorism has wreaked havoc with murder and kidnapping.”[/size]
[size=45]And she added, addressing her words to the Prime Minister: “If the security audit is canceled, what will we say to the thousands of Yazidis and the victims killed by terrorism, what will we say to the mass graves?”[/size]
[size=45]This comes at a time when Baghdad is awaiting the arrival of a Kurdish delegation headed by Masrour Barzani, the head of the Kurdistan government, according to Representative Shawan al-Dobardani.[/size]
[size=45]Dobardani said in an interview with (Al-Mada) that "the delegation will discuss the implementation of the provisions of the political agreement, in its executive and legislative parts."[/size]
[size=45]And the representative of the Democratic Party stated, "The executive part includes the restoration of normalization in Sinjar, the enlistment of 2,500 residents in the security forces, and the reconstruction of the displaced, in addition to the implementation of Article 140 stipulated in the constitution."[/size]
[size=45]The deputy explained that the last article includes: “Renormalization in the disputed areas and restoring the situation before the Arabization operations that took place in 1968, then conducting the census, and the last is the implementation of the referendum on the areas outside the borders of the region.”[/size]
[size=45]As for the legislative part, Al-Dobardani stressed that the delegation “will discuss the implementation of the budget related to the salaries of the region, the Peshmerga, and Kurdistan’s share of financing.[/size]
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