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NCRI Iran News | Terrorism and Fundamentalism

by lonelyintexas Mon 24 Aug 2015, 3:21 pm

NCRI Iran News | Terrorism and Fundamentalism

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EIFA: Iraq must outlaw corruption, indict Nuri Maliki

Monday, 24 August 2015 07:47

NCRI - Former Iraqi dictator Nuri al-Maliki, acting under the thumb of the Iranian regime, is responsible for the calamity in Iraq today, former European lawmaker Struan Stevenson has said in a statement.

"The European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA) expresses its appreciation for the courageous and influential stance of the senior religious leader Grand Ayatollah Sistani and considers it as the primary support for advancing real reform by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi," the President of EIFA said in the statement posted on the group's website on Sunday.

Ayatollah Sistani told AFP: "Today, if true reform is not realised by fighting corruption without mercy and realising social justice on different levels, it is expected that circumstances will become worse than before," and Iraq could be "dragged to... partition and the like, God forbid."

According to AFP he said that without rampant corruption, especially in the security forces, and misuse of power by top officials, "the Daesh (ISIS) terrorist organisation would not have been able to control a large part of the territory of Iraq," and added that many Iraqi politicians "did not take the overall interest of the Iraqi people into consideration, and were instead concerned with their personal interests, and factional, sectarian and ethnic concerns.”

Mr. Stevenson pointed out: "As the Iraqi people stressed in Friday’s nationwide demonstrations, the man most responsible for the calamity in Iraq today is former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who, during his eight years in office under the thumb of the Iranian regime, destroyed Iraq politically and economically and thus totally undermined its security."

"EIFA emphasized in its August 11 statement that the foremost and most imperative step in any reform is to hold Maliki to account for his crimes and to evict the Iranian regime and its militias from Iraq, otherwise any attempt at reform will collide head on with the Iranian hurdle and is doomed to fail. In circumstances where the senior religious leader and millions of people support Mr. Abadi’s reforms, no delay is acceptable; opportunities will be lost and the threat of Iraq's partition will increase."

"We in Europe stand beside the Iraqi people and fully support such reforms," he added.

Mr. Stevenson was President of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq from 2009 until 2014. Prior to that, he served for 10 years as a Member of the European Parliament.

ncr-iran.org/en/news/terrorism-fundamentalism/18987-eifa-iraq-must-outlaw-corruption-indict-nuri-maliki?