Iraq .. "Lung" Iran's economic and 75% of the port confiscated

Iraq .. "Lung" Iran's economic and 75% of the port confiscated



Created on Tuesday, 02 July / July 2013 06:28 | Print | E-mail


BAGHDAD / Omar Shaher

According to Iran's Trade Development Organization, last Monday, that 72% of Iranian exports to the outside, to go to Iraq, as revealed that Iraq's imports of Iranian goods increased during the year by about 15%.

The news agency quoted Iranian Vice-President of Iran's Trade Development Organization Kiomarz Fathallah Krmnchaha, saying that "Iraq receives 72% of the total exports of Iran's foreign trade and ranks first as the largest importer of Iranian domestic goods."

Since several years, Western countries imposed a series of United Nations sanctions on Iran accused of seeking to build nuclear weapons under cover of a civilian program, a charge Tehran denies. In the latest round of sanctions against Tehran, was quoted by U.S. media, Wednesday, 26/06/2013, a spokesman for the U.S. presidency Jay Carney, said that President Barack Obama gave the green its light to impose sanctions on foreign entities conducting large buy or sell or have Riyals accounts Riyals banking outside Iran.

The Iranian rial fell to its lowest level, because of international sanctions. The new U.S. sanctions include automotive manufacturing sector in Iran. Iraq is perhaps the largest market for Iranian cars, overseas.

He says Iraqi political analyst Ihsan al-Shammari, said that "Iran is convinced that Iraq is currently the only economic Ritha, it is natural to go most exports to him". Al-Shammari said that "what helps Iran to enter the Iraqi market is strongly consumer nature of Iraqi society." It is believed al-Shammari, that "the deepening of relations between Iraq and Iran in this way, inevitably cause damage to Iraq's foreign relations, particularly with the United States, which consider the Iranian nuclear program as a threat to its interests and security."

For Shimri, "Iran is in dire need of Iraq at this stage, specifically, not only for the disposal of goods, but perhaps for export to other countries, or facilitate the movement of Iranian funds towards Damascus and Beirut through Baghdad." "Maybe now be Iraq, Iran is a port on the economic world."

She says Arab and Western countries that Iran supports fighters, weapons and money, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, who is trying to contain popular demonstrations, has evolved into an armed rebellion, more than two years ago. It is believed the Iraqi economic expert Majid picture that "increased trade with Iran inevitably will help to decipher part of the blockade." Suri said that "increasing the pressure of the international embargo on Iran, he was awarded the Iraqi traders an opportunity to deal with their Iranian counterparts in cash, not through bank transfers, as is customary in cross-border trade, grew the demand for the dollar inside Iraq." "The relations between traders of different nationalities is normal, not to exceed their borders and extend to affect the national interests."

He sees the picture, that "there is sympathy for the Iraqi government level with Iran," but he believes that "this empathy, sympathy for some countries like with Iraq during the phase of the economic blockade him in the nineties." Suri says that "Iran is trying to make the most of the rest of its relations with neighboring countries." And notes "the growing economic ties between Iran and Russia, India, Iran is also trying to extend gas pipeline through Pakistan, despite strong U.S. opposition to this endeavor."

He continues that "large commercial exchange between Baghdad and Tehran, comes in this context."

For its part, believes a member of the Economic Committee in the Iraqi Parliament, Nahida Daini, that the process of controlling what you want Iran to send goods to Iraq "very difficult", because "the multiplicity of exchange ports on the long border between the two countries." Dani says, "The most important ease of export, is a consumer nature of Iraqi society." He adds that "the goods entering Iraq oddly gobble of the population, far away from the level of quality." Daini believes that "there is what looks like a political veto on the application of the customs tariff in Iraq, as if the politicians want to allow Iran and other flood the local market with goods, in order to kill domestic industrial capacity."

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