The American pressure on Maliki

Very objec­tive pre­view of Al-Qabas on Maliki’s posi­tion fac­ing the Amer­i­can pres­sure say­ing that at one point in Maliki’s speech to the media revealed what exactly going on:

Maliki is not will­ing to show flex­i­bil­ity, and he expressed the need to obtain the “National Polit­i­cal Coun­cil” and the Par­lia­ment approval before sign­ing the agree­ment. This is one of the things the Amer­i­can side tries to prevent.

They [the Amer­i­cans] hope that the agree­ment would stay as a deal between the two gov­ern­ments, but Maliki does not want to take this respon­si­bil­ity alone, espe­cially with the recent polit­i­cal climate.

The arti­cle con­tin­ues say­ing that all the Amer­i­can pres­sure on Maliki to speed up the sign­ing was unsuc­cess­ful which left them with two options only:

- Accept­ing the Iraqi conditions.

- Cre­ate polit­i­cal and secu­rity repercussions