The factions are rising against Israel...and Turkey is negotiating with armed groups to empty Sinjar

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[size=52]The factions are rising against Israel...and Turkey is negotiating with armed groups to empty Sinjar of the Workers' Party[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad/ Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]Faction leaders began escalating against Israel at a time when Turkey was negotiating with Iraqi officials to ease the grip of those groups near the border to implement a security agreement between Baghdad and Ankara similar to what happened with Tehran. Hadi Al-Amiri, leader of the Badr Organization, threatened to “intervene in Palestine if the United States intervenes.”[/size]
[size=45]Meanwhile, Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Sadrist movement, called for million-man demonstrations in Baghdad and “burning Israeli flags.”[/size]
[size=45]The government had considered the military operations launched by the Palestinian Hamas movement against Israel “a natural result of the systematic oppression it has been subjected to since ancient times at the hands of the Zionist occupation authority.”[/size]
[size=45]Government spokesman Bassem Al-Awadi said in a statement that Iraq “affirms its firm position, as people and government, towards the Palestinian issue, and its standing by the Palestinian people in achieving their aspirations and obtaining their full legitimate rights, and that injustice and usurpation of these rights cannot produce sustainable peace.”[/size]
[size=45]The leaders of the coordination framework, such as Nouri al-Maliki, Haider al-Abadi, Qais al-Khazali, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, and Hadi al-Amiri, unanimously agreed to support the Palestinian movement, and the Popular Mobilization Forces also issued a statement supporting the “resistance” there.[/size]
[size=45]Last Saturday, dozens of people gathered, most of them members of the factions, in central Baghdad, in support of Hamas’ operations and slaughtered animals under the Tahrir Monument. Hossam Al-Rubaie, a member of the Sanad Gathering, which is headed by the Minister of Labor and leader of the Jund Al-Imam Ahmed Al-Asadi faction, said, “Iraq may enter the line of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood if the situation develops.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Rubaie added in an interview on a local station, “There are plans drawn up that are 20 years old, and young Iraqis have been planted in Lebanese areas for the purpose of employing them in the comprehensive war when the time comes,” noting that “there is a joint operations room that includes all the axis of resistance.”[/size]
[size=45]In a new development in the position of the factions on the situation in Palestine, Al-Amiri, the leader of Badr, said, “We, as Iraqis and as sons of the twentieth revolution, must support the Palestinian cause with all our might, and the banners of the liberation of Palestine will fly from Iraq, God willing, so we must be prepared to defend the legitimate Palestinian cause.” Al-Amiri warned in a speech while receiving a number of tribal sheikhs that if “America intervenes in Palestine, we will intervene and do not hesitate to target,” stressing that “our position is clear regarding supporting the Palestinian cause because the Palestinian people are an oppressed people.”[/size]
[size=45]A short time later, Muqtada al-Sadr tweeted, calling for million-man demonstrations next Friday in Tahrir Square to “defend Palestine.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sadr said in a tweet on the “X” website: “It is incumbent upon us, the Iraqi mujahideen who resist the American occupation, and every lover of the Palestinian cause, to go out with peaceful, united, million-strong demonstrations in the Square of Reform and the Oppressed (Tahrir Square), so that the voice of jihad rises from the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and reaches the whole world, and let us burn flags.” "Israelis raise Palestinian flags side by side with the Iraqi flag."[/size]
[size=45]He added, “May this demonstration be to destroy and disperse them, and to terrify the great evil, America, which supports Zionist terrorism against our loved ones in Palestine, and so that the Palestinian lands and Holy Jerusalem may return to the confines of truth, and truth is supreme and unsurpassed.” Al-Sadr continued, “Our time for the demonstration is next Friday, and after a unified Friday prayer.” Two million people march from all governorates to prove to the corrupt and oppressors that we continue to support reform and resistance.”[/size]
[size=45]Last year, Parliament voted on a law criminalizing normalization with Israel, with the support of Al-Sadr.[/size]
[size=45]Türkiye is negotiating...[/size]
[size=45]Meanwhile, Turkey began dialogue with the factions that it believes are allied with the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which opposes Ankara.[/size]
[size=45]During the past two days, 4 Iraqi officials and politicians visited Turkey amid reports of the possibility of concluding a security agreement similar to what happened with Iran to keep the Labor Party away from the borders.[/size]
[size=45]The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Yahya Rasoul, said in a statement: “During a meeting of the Ministerial Council for National Security, the Prime Minister directed the Minister of Foreign Affairs to communicate with his Turkish counterpart regarding activating bilateral security committees to address border security problems.”[/size]
[size=45]On Saturday, Muhammad Al-Halbousi, Speaker of Parliament, met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in order to “strengthen cooperation and coordination between the two countries,” according to a statement issued by Al-Halbousi’s office. One day before that, Faleh al-Fayyad, head of the PMF, visited Ankara and met with Hakan Fidan, the Turkish Foreign Minister, who visited Baghdad last August, according to a Turkish Foreign Ministry publication. The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated in another publication that Minister Fidan met with the head of the Iraqi Sovereignty Alliance, Khamis Al-Khanjar.[/size]
[size=45]These visits came two days after Defense Minister Thabet Al-Abbasi visited Ankara, heading a military delegation, during which he held a series of meetings with Turkish officials.[/size]
[size=45]Turkey has been launching attacks on areas in Kurdistan for years under the pretext of pursuing the Workers' Party, known as the PKK.[/size]
[size=45]According to Shiite sources, Tehran supports the Workers’ Party against the “SDF,” the Kurdish forces present in Syria and supported by Washington.[/size]
[size=45]Iran also prevents, according to what the sources say, the reproduction of the agreement it recently concluded with Iraq to remove the Iranian Kurdish opposition from the borders. Tehran is still not convinced of the Iraqi measures to weaken the opposition, and demands the disarmament of even “light” weapons, and the extradition of wanted persons even though they are present in Iraq as “refugees.” “. In this regard, Ghazi Faisal, director of the Iraqi Center for Strategic Studies, said in an interview with (Al-Mada) that “economic relations between Ankara and Baghdad are threatened due to the presence of the Workers’ Party.” Faisal believes that Faleh Al-Fayyad’s presence in Ankara is due to “the Turkish Foreign Ministry’s attempt to solve the problem in Sinjar.” North of Mosul, which is controlled by the Workers’ Party with allies from factions linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.”[/size]
[size=45]Sinjar effectively affects the path of development, which Iraq aspires to be a strategic project with Turkey and the countries of the region, and the city is also located on the arms supply route between Syria and Iran.[/size]
[size=45]The head of the Iraqi Center continues: “The common interests between Turkey and Iraq require that there be security guarantees and that a security agreement be concluded, as happened with Iran, otherwise the problem will remain and Turkey will continue its bombing operations.”[/size]
[size=45]Faisal calls for the expulsion of the Labor Party from Iraq because it is a “terrorist organization,” and this contradicts the constitution because it does not allow Iraqi territory to be a launching pad for threatening its neighbors, and it does not allow the existence of Iraqi or foreign armed organizations.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, he points out that “the agreement helps Iraq obtain payments of water, expand Turkish investments, and Ankara’s participation in building cities and the industrial base in Iraq, especially since it has good relations with the United States.”[/size]
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