Washington seeks to expand trade and oil relations with Iraq and Iran puts sticks in the wheel

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[size=52]Washington seeks to expand trade and oil relations with Iraq and Iran puts sticks in the wheel[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]Tehran is trying to regain control of affairs in Iraq, while exerting pressure to obstruct the progress of investigations regarding the killing of an American citizen in Karrada last week.[/size]
[size=45]This comes at a time when a senior Iranian official is likely to arrive in Baghdad to discuss the escalation of Iraqi-American relations, the bombing of Kurdistan and the recent assassination.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, the United States is pushing strongly towards strengthening relations with Iraq, especially by increasing cooperation in the field of trade and the oil industry.[/size]
[size=45]External files are crowded with internal issues, as position conflicts are still increasing and the coordination framework is in tension due to the continued silence of the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr.[/size]
[size=45]A source close to Al-Hanana, where Al-Sadr is based in Najaf, says, in contact with Al-Mada, that "the leader of the Sadrist movement is still in the monitoring phase, and there are no indications of any immediate intervention."[/size]
[size=45]The source, who asked not to be named, indicates that al-Sadr: “will not risk again the blood of the youth, because the group that is ruling the country now can easily use weapons.”[/size]
[size=45]The last confrontation between al-Sadr's followers and armed parties inside the Green Zone was at the end of last August, which ended with the killing of about 50 people from the first side, according to the Sadrist movement's account.[/size]
[size=45]And the source in Najaf stated, “The coordination framework is now concerned about the silence of the movement’s leader, and it sent us messages trying to find out al-Sadr’s opinion on the recent government decisions.”[/size]
[size=45]Wings within the “framework” are pushed to confront the Sadrists with the job file, which is known as “special grades.”[/size]
[size=45]Sadrist circles revealed earlier to (Al-Mada) that Sadrist employees and others opposed to the coordination framework were subjected to harassment.[/size]
[size=45]Yesterday, Muhammad Al-Sudani decided to end the assignment of Mashreq Al-Fariji from the position of Director General of the Technical Department in the Ministry of Construction.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Freiji is an opposition figure and the head of the Nazel Take My Right party, which participated in the recent elections after his movement played a role in the October 2019 demonstrations.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, Al-Sudani decided to reinstate Ali Al-Moayad as head of the executive body of the Communications and Media Authority, and he is close to the Al-Hikma movement led by Ammar Al-Hakim.[/size]
[size=45]This is the second position in the government for the al-Hikma movement, after assigning a member of the al-Hikma political body, Ahmed al-Fatlawi, to head the coordination body between the governorates.[/size]
[size=45]A statement by the Media Authority said, “Ali Al-Moayad has assumed his duties as head of the executive body of the Media and Communications Authority, after the Prime Minister issued an order to reassign him to head the executive body.”[/size]
[size=45]The statement indicated that the order to reassign Ali Al-Moayyed came after a decision was issued by the Administrative Court on November 6, 2022, which stipulated the cancellation of a previous decision of the Board of Commissioners on April 24, 2022, and the reinstatement of Al-Moayyed to his post.[/size]
[size=45]In March 2022, the Board of Commissioners of the Media and Communications Authority decided to relieve the head of the executive body of the authority, Ali Al-Moayyed, from his position.[/size]
[size=45]And former Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi issued an order in May 2021 to assign Ali Al-Moayad to head the commission, instead of Engineer Adel Salman.[/size]
[size=45]The scramble for special positions caused the caretaker period to be exceeded in the last year of the Al-Kazemi government, which the new government considered illegal and canceled all of them at the beginning of this month.[/size]
[size=45]The circle of conflict over high-ranking jobs, which is estimated at more than 10,000 degrees, has also moved into the coordination framework.[/size]
[size=45]Representatives close to the “framework” leaked information about the exclusion of Muhammad al-Darraji from the post of head of the Military Industrialization Authority, although the latter was nominated by Shibl al-Zaidi, head of the Imam Ali Brigades, one of the most prominent factions of the crowd.[/size]
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[size=45]In the foreign policy file, there is a major blackout going on over the investigations announced by Al-Sudani regarding the killing of the American relief activist Stephen Troll, who was killed in Karrada more than a week ago.[/size]
[size=45]Informed sources told (Al-Mada) that “Tehran, which is believed to be involved in the assassination, is exerting pressure to dilute the investigations.”[/size]
[size=45]A group calling itself “Saraya Ahl al-Kahf” had claimed responsibility for the incident, as revenge for the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, head of the crowd, according to a statement published by a number of news agencies.[/size]
[size=45]And last Saturday, the prime minister said that Baghdad has leads that lead it to who is behind the assassination of American citizen Stephen Troll.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani said, during his meeting with a number of political analysts, that "the killing of American citizen Stephen Troll is a crime whose timing was intentional, and behind it stands those who seek to test the government."[/size]
[size=45]He added, "We have leads that lead us to the perpetrators, and I personally follow the progress of the investigations."[/size]
[size=45]Sources familiar with the discussions of the political forces indicate that “Tehran is not satisfied with the new government’s rapprochement with the United States and wants to export crises and fabricate problems so that it is the one in control.”[/size]
[size=45]And the sources confirm that "the United States wants Iraq to preserve the export of oil, and it also seeks to increase trade cooperation and raise the number of companies operating in the field of the oil industry."[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, Tehran has increased the frequency of threats to Iraq, according to what the sources say, after it attacked a town near Erbil the day before yesterday, and it is expected that the threats will escalate.[/size]
[size=45]And the Foreign Ministry confirmed, in response to the Iranian attack, that Baghdad would take high-level diplomatic measures against Tehran.[/size]
[size=45]The ministry said in a statement that it "condemns, in strong and repeated terms, the artillery and drone strikes carried out by the Iranian side on a number of regions of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which left many innocent citizens dead and wounded."[/size]
[size=45]And she added, "This unilateral, hostile approach will not be a factor for advancing solutions that lead to stability, and our positions preceded to indicate the danger of this blatant transgression on Iraq's sovereignty and the security of its citizens, and the constant threat it reflects that will cause confusion in the region and raise the level of tension in it."[/size]
[size=45]The statement indicated that “the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will take high-level diplomatic measures in this regard, without hesitation in preserving and preserving the sovereignty of Iraq, in a way that enhances the security of its people.”[/size]
[size=45]And the Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces renewed their missile strikes on the headquarters of the Kurdish parties opposing the Iranian authorities in the town of Koysanjak, 60 km east of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region.[/size]
[size=45]The President of the Kurdistan Regional Government condemned the Iranian bombing and considered it a violation of sovereignty, while an official announced that one person was killed and 8 others were wounded in the missile attack.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, news platforms close to the coordination framework have leaked news about Ismail Qaani (Khalifa Soleimani)'s visit to Iraq in conjunction with the developments of the assassination and the bombing of Kurdistan.[/size]
[size=45]The news indicated that Qaani might meet with the Prime Minister to discuss the issue of the bombing that took place last Monday on a town in Kurdistan.[/size]
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