Beware the Iranian snakes and Maliki’s failed visit to Jordan

Beware the Iran­ian snakes

Sat­ur­day morn­ing, Bagh­dad res­i­dents and other south­ern provinces, sur­prised to see posters on the walls of many neigh­bor­hoods, with the text: “Beware the Iran­ian intel­li­gence snakes”.

As you can see the posters here [scroll down], the rest of the text says:

Iran­ian intel­li­gence and the Iran­ian Al-Quds Brigades are legally dis­guised as com­pa­nies and civil ser­vice orga­ni­za­tions inside Iraq.

Iraqis be aware of these snakes, which are spread­ing their poi­sons in our soci­ety, and fight them with all power you can afford.

Sadr Trend maneuver

Another unex­pected move from the Sadr Trend, spokesman Al-Ubeidi announced today that the Sadrists will not par­tic­i­pate in the com­ing provin­cial elec­tion as a polit­i­cal bloc. The Sadrists will not boy­cott the elec­tion but they will sup­port inde­pen­dent per­son­al­i­ties and insti­tu­tions.
He explains the rea­son that the occu­pa­tion still inter­venes in the provin­cial assem­blies, and we want to be an observation-body.

The report said that this is a pre­ven­tive move taken by the Sadrists to block Maliki’s gov­ern­ment attempts to ban the par­ties with mili­tias from par­tic­i­pat­ing in the election.

Maliki’s failed visit to jordan

Jor­dan still cel­e­brates the 18 dol­lar oil deal with Maliki’s, one writer went so far saying:

Iraqi Prime Min­is­ter Nuri al-Maliki, with his move­ments and state­ments, he expressed great inter­est, to restore the depth of Arab– Iraq rela­tions. Al-Maliki today, rep­re­sents Iraq’s legit­i­macy from both sides; the major­ity and the inter­na­tional recognition.

There­fore, he is the qual­i­fied per­son, more than the oth­ers, to run this impor­tant task suc­cess­fully. All what he needs is to pro­vide him with Arab support.

But Jor­dan­ian news­pa­per Al Arab Al Youm rev­e­laed that Maliki’s visit is very suc­cess­ful as the media tried to con­vince the pub­lic opinion:

Jor­dan rejects Iraq’s request to erase the debts

Jor­dan offi­cially rejected a request from Iraq to erase 1350 mil­lion dol­lar debts. Finance Min­is­ter Dr. Hamad Alex­as­abh said that Jor­dan told Iraqi offi­cials dur­ing the offi­cial talks that the debt belong to the Cen­tral Bank of Jor­dan and not the Gov­ern­ment, so Paris Club deci­sions do not apply.