Posts Tagged ‘Shia Islam’

New York Times suggests Maliki’s resignation will resolve most problems in Iraq

Posted: May 6, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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The New York Times: Maliki departure is alone capable of solving the problems of Iraq
05-05-2013 11:16 AM

The New York Times felt that the solution to Iraq’s problems lies in the resignation of Maliki’s responsibility.

The newspaper said in analyzing her about what the situation in Iraq, that Iraq is going through a serious crisis and that the solution lies in that step down the prime minister and replaced by another figure elected by Parliament, there are other Shiite politicians who are able to lead a government of national unity. (more…)

UN: serious about contributing to resolving the Iraqi crisis peacefully and not put pressure on the government over the decision to postpone elections

Posted: March 21, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Confirmed official speaking on behalf of the United Nations mission in Iraq Ylianh Nabah “the seriousness of the UN Mission in contributing to resolving the Iraqi crisis peacefully and no pressure on the government over the decision to postpone the provincial elections.” (more…)

UN holds all Iraqi leaders responsible for bombings in the capital Baghdad

Posted: February 17, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Uploaded United Nations, Sunday, all Iraqi leaders responsible for bombings that hit a number of areas of the capital Baghdad, stressing that nothing can justify these terrorist attacks.

The United Nations envoy in Iraq, Martin Kobler, in a statement received “obelisk”, a copy of which, “We condemn in the strongest terms the series of bombings that took place in several neighborhoods in Baghdad today, killing and wounding dozens, and responsibility to stand in the face of these heinous crimes that target tissue the country’s social responsibility of all Iraqi leaders. ” (more…)

United States sends 6 diplomats to resolve the political crisis in Iraq

Posted: February 17, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Political source revealed diplomatic determination of the U.S. delegation to come to Baghdad for meetings with the political blocs to exit solution to the existing crises. (more…)

UN adopts the option of early elections in accordance with the formula 2004

Posted: January 17, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Political source revealed that scattering Shiite position is what worries the United Nations, which adopts the option of early elections in accordance with the formula 2004, when elections were unified parliament and provincial councils, but the reference refuses to go with this option. (more…)

Reuters: Sectarianism will prolong instability in Iraq says Saudi Arabia

Posted: January 5, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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(Reuters) – Saudi Arabia on Saturday warned Iraq against sectarian extremism after two weeks of protests by Sunni Muslims against Baghdad’s Shi’ite-led government.

The street protests across Iraq’s Sunni heartland have strained the Arab state’s fragile political balance and renewed fears of intensified sectarian strife. (more…)

Fox News: Office of Iraq’s president says he’s recovering from stroke

Posted: January 5, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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BAGHDAD –  The office of Iraq’s ailing president says he is making progress in a German hospital recovering from a stroke last month.

A brief statement Saturday described the health situation of Jalal Talabani as “reassuring” and says his medical team has started rehabilitation. It did not give more details on his condition (more…)

CNN “Sadr calls for Maliki to resign and announce its full support for Anbar disobedience

Posted: January 2, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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The leader of the Sadrist movement in Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who faces a series of demonstrations and sit-ins Sunni areas “beyond people’s bias” and push states to stand against Baghdad, accusing him of upholding the chair, and expressed support for the protesters Anbar and Ivory Coast later visit after elevate the pictures of Saddam Hussein. (more…)

Iraq is a failed state and needs a revolution say former Iraqi foreign minister

Posted: December 19, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Iraq missed out on the Arab Spring, but it not late for its youth to rise up against their government and turn Iraq, now a failed state, into a prosperous, functioning democracy, Iraqi veteran politician, Adnan al-Pachachi, has said.

The 90-year-old Pachachi, former Iraqi foreign minister and representative to the United Nations, reflected on his longtime political career in memoirs titled “Adnan al-Pachachi in the Eye of the Storm,” published in Arabic in early December 2012. (more…)

UN’s urgent appeal to the Iraqi government and invites them to address the causes of violence and “terrorism”

Posted: June 13, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Martin Kobler
and directed the United Nations mission to help Iraq, on Wednesday, an urgent appeal to the Iraqi government to address the root causes behind the “violence and terrorism” that cause so much suffering and pain of the Iraqi people, expressing shock and strong dissatisfaction about the attacks in Iraq today. (more…)

UN expresses shock and strong dissatisfaction about the attacks that hit Iraq

Posted: June 13, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Erbil, June 13 (AKnews) – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Wednesday feeling deeply shocked and strong dissatisfaction because of the attacks hideous that targeted different parts of Iraq today, which resulted in death and injury of dozens of Iraqis, including a large number of the pilgrims. according to a press release of the Office of the Organization. (more…)

CNBC/Reuters: Leading Iraqi lawmakers threaten vote of no confidence

Posted: May 5, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Four of the most senior political leaders in Iraq’s fragile coalition have threatened to bring a vote of no confidence in the government unless “autocratic decision-making” stops, a letter published in a state newspaper on Saturday said.

Iraq’s Shi’ite, Sunni and Kurd coalition began to creak in December, after U.S. troops left, when the government tried to remove Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq and issued an arrest warrant for Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi.

Kurdish Alliance MP says new Kuwait elections wont impede relations with Iraq; Emir has ultimate say

Posted: February 5, 2012 in Iraq: Chapter VII, Iraqi Dinar/Politics, Top Headlines
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Sunday February 5, 2012
Vice reduces the importance of access to the Salafist Kuwaiti National Assembly and its effect on Iraq

Reduce the Kurdistan Alliance MP Farhad Atrushi Sunday, the importance of access to the Salafist Kuwaiti National Assembly and the fear among Iraqi politicians because of the refusal Salafis drive Iraq from Chapter VII.

Atrushi and told the news public opinion (and babysit) said: “The rise of a certain stream and the arrival of a certain political movement to the House of Representatives and swept the elections in accordance with the Kuwaiti National Assembly largely does not necessarily mean sacking of political views there.” (more…)

Editorial: Maliki .. Shiite version of Saddam Hussein

Posted: January 2, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Asked the newspaper “The Independent” British whether the disintegration of Iraq is the last under the current crisis, which threatens more specifically sectarian divisions between Sunnis and Shiites. He spoke by Patrick Kkbron in the article, the newspaper about the situation in Iraq, and said that the three main parties in the country, the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, can not govern together, as that every one of them can not be judged on its own, threatening to divide the country.

He continues by saying that the bombings in Iraq last November, and although they were not very like, but that represented a sign of the changing political chief in Iraqi politics, as it was used as a pretext on the part of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who considered it an attempt to assassinate him, and has a background charges against the Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi were involved. (more…)

US forces spokesman: Iran backs armed groups to undermine Iraq’s sovereignty

Posted: November 9, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Baghdad, Nov. 8 (AKnews) – A spokesman for the US forces in Iraq accused Iran of backing armed groups to undermine Iraq’s sovereignty as the US forces prepare to withdraw from Iraq.

US forces have on several occasions warned against Iran’s role in Iraq and it support for armed groups in the country. US forces officials in Iraq claim that Iran backs Shia armed groups under the name of “Qods Force” which has carried out armed actions against the Iraq security forces and US military. (more…)

IBN: New Reports put Iraq Banks and Anbar under the Spotlight

Posted: September 23, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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The first of two new reports posted today on the IBN website puts the Iraq private banking sector under the spotlight. ‘Perspective on Iraqi private banks’ is researched and written by Ahmad Saleh and Tom Opdyke of Iraqixchange. The eight page report provides vital background data plus key stats on the sector.

The second report is a detailed analysis of the opportunities in Anbar Province by Dunia Frontier Consultants. Anbar Province is about to become a major player in the O&G sector with 5 of the 12 new plots in Iraq’s 4th round of O&G licensing. The development is certain to entail billions of dollars of investment.

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New York Times: No US troops die in Aug., marking first such month in Iraq war

Posted: September 1, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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BAGHDAD – Under increased US pressure, an Iraqi crackdown on Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias has helped produce a previously elusive goal: For the first time since the US invasion of Iraq, an entire month has passed without a single US service member dying.

The milestone is particularly remarkable because it comes after 14 troops were killed in July, making it the most deadly month for the Americans in three years; and it has occurred amid a frightening campaign of suicide bombings and assassinations from Sunni insurgents that killed hundreds of Iraqis, resurrecting the specter of the worst days of sectarian fighting.

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U.S. report: Iraq more dangerous than a year ago

Posted: July 30, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Erbil, July 30 (AKnews) — Iraq is a more dangerous place than it was a year ago, a report released today by a U.S. government watchdog concluded.

Recent months have seen an escalation in bombings, assassinations and kidnappings, it says, leading to a “summer of uncertainty” over whether to ask for an extension of the end-of-year deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal.

U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart W. Bowen Jr. made his quarterly report to Congress, concluding: “Iraq remains an extraordinarily dangerous place to work… It is less safe, in my judgment, than 12 months ago.”

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Sadrists: We will go to UN if U.S. stay

Posted: July 27, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Erbil, July 27 (AKnews) – If U.S. forces stay on Iraqi soil beyond the end-of-year deadline the Sadrists will press the Iraqi government to pursue the Americans in the UN Security Council.

Amir Kanani, who leads the Ahrar bloc in the Sadr Current, told AKnews that all parties should wish for and urge the U.S. forces to leave the country because “the U.S. troops’ violations in Iraq has exceeded all limits.”

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Iraq calls on Kuwait to stop work on mega port

Posted: July 7, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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imageBAGHDAD: Iraqi Transportation Minister Hadi Al-Amari said yesterday that neighbouring Kuwait must stop work on its Mubarak port project because it will block Iraqi access to shipping lanes. “The construction of this port … demonstrates the clear intention of Kuwait to block shipping lanes from Iraqi ports and contradicts UN resolutions,” he told reporters, adding that it would “strangle” Iraq’s main export terminal in the southern city of Basra. “We say we will not accept that Basra and Iraq be strangled in any way,” the minister said angrily.

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Key Bills Moving Through the Iraqi Parliament

Posted: May 31, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Parliament currently lists 79 bills registered for consideration with a committee but not yet voted on, 68 which have been through the first reading in parliament , but only 32 which have been through the second . A bill must pass through three “readings” to become law. Some key bills which are on the latter list – those presumably close to becoming law – are listed below.

But note that a disproportionate amount of bills which are not generally considered high-priority have progressed while others have not (i.e. the law on official holidays is through the second reading but the oil law is still in committee).

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Speaker announces independent bodies subjected to the pressures and interventions parties

Posted: April 27, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Baghdad, 27 April (Rn) – The head of the House of Representatives Osama Najafi, Wednesday, exposure of independent bodies to pressure from the parties through their work, noting that the legislation of their own laws are still in the process of writing to the relevant committees in the House of Representatives, as well as with the government.

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Kuwaiti official surprised by the statements of Minister of Human Rights on the remains of Kuwaitis

Posted: April 20, 2011 in Iraq: Chapter VII, Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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BAGHDAD (Iba) … Follow-up to / denied the official spokesman of the research team for the prisoners and president of the Association of prisoners and martyrs Kuwaiti Fayez Anzi in a statement to the newspaper Gazette Kuwait was announced by the Iraqi Human Rights Minister Mohamed Shia’a cooperation of his ministry with the Kuwaiti authorities and the Committee of the Red Cross to verify the information on the suspect to contain the site in the province of Nasiriya the remains of Kuwaitis who went missing during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait during the invasion in 1990.

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Protests against continued US presence in Iraq; Sadr warns he will mobilize Mahdi army if US forces stays

Posted: April 9, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Baghdad, April 9 (AKnews) – Hundreds of the fans of the Shia radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr took to the streets Saturday to protests against the US forces presence in Iraq.

The demonstrators who came from different Iraqi provinces to Baghdad mark the 8th anniversary of the fall of the former dictator Saddam Hussein called on the US forces to leave Iraq.

http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/4/230642

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Kuwaiti government resigns in parliamentary questioning

Posted: March 31, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Arbil, March 31 (AKnews) – The free news channel, on Thursday the resignation of the Kuwaiti government headed by Nasser Al-Mohammad Al after a request Kuwaiti Shiite MPs questioned three ministers from the members of the royal family against the backdrop of sectarian remarks on the crisis in Bahrain.

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UPI: Sadr switching sides again in Iraq?

Posted: March 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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MOQTADA SADR GIVES FRIDAY PRAYERSSadr switching sides again in Iraq?

Published: March. 3, 2011 at 12:23 PM
BAGHDAD, March 3 (UPI) — The party loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr could rally against the country’s prime minister if he doesn’t address national woes, the group said.

Iraqis have their say on the Cabinet; Take questionnaire

Posted: March 1, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Questionnaires are filled evaluating the Iraqi cabinet, six months after taking office as the unofficial referendum was announced by Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and administered by his political followers. Najaf, Iraq.

A leader in the Sadrist Current headed by Muqtada al-Sadr announced on Monday that a seven-day public referendum entitled “People’s Voice Week” begins today into the services provided to Iraqi citizens.

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al-Sadr calls on Iraq’s PM to settle citizens problems quickly

Posted: February 28, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Shiite Cleric calls on Iraq’s PM to settle citizens problems quickly
2/28/2011 2:08 PM

NAJAF / Aswat al-Iraq: The Leader of the Shiite Sadrist Trend, Young Cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, has called on Monday on Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, to take urgent measures to settle the problems of the Iraqi citizens.

“Everybody must know that most of the decisions and orders can’t be implemented, unless they are approved by PM Maliki; otherwise he should propose solutions for the current popular problems,” Sadr said in a statement he addressed to PM Maliki.

“I am confident that if those solutions stem from national and unpoliticised demands, nobody can reject them,” Sadr said.

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NY Times: Iraq’s Top Shiite Leaders Urge Delay of Protests

Posted: February 23, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and YASIR GHAZI

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s top Shiite religious leaders, the populist cleric Moktada al-Sadr and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, called Wednesday for Iraqis to defer their protests, leading many members of the country’s Shiite majority to say they would not join in nationwide demonstrations scheduled for Friday.

Many Sunnis said they still planned to go ahead with the demonstrations, which are being billed as a “day of rage.” But the Shiite withdrawal dealt a significant blow to protest organizers, who had hoped to fill Iraq’s streets with millions of people to call for improved government services. (more…)

Kuwait political demonstrations set for March 8

Posted: February 14, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Bahrain on alert amid demo calls

DUBAI: Bahrain’s security forces set up checkpoints and clashed with marchers in at least one village yesterday as opposition groups blanketed social media sites with calls to stage the first major anti-government protests in the Gulf since the uprising in Egypt.

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