Why this sud­den “pos­i­tive” reac­tion from Maliki’s gov­ern­ment to open the dead­lock regard­ing SOFA?

If you didn’t see Ammar Al-Hakim’s inter­view with Reuters saying:

We think there is still a chance for con­sul­ta­tions or nego­ti­a­tions by the Iraqi and Amer­i­can delegations.

Which reflects his wor­ries about the recent U.S. threats, not only the ones counted by McClatchy “U.S. lists ser­vices it’ll cut off if Iraq rejects pact on troops” but the already started as reported on Gulfnews today saying:

The U.S. occu­pa­tion forces trans­ferred a num­ber of offi­cials of the for­mer Iraqi regime to Crop­per prison run by the U.S. forces, refuse to hand them over to the Iraqi authority.

Lawyer, Badi’ Izzat Aref said that this move is part of Wash­ing­ton pres­sures to force the Iraqi gov­ern­ment to pass a Secu­rity Agreement.

Al-Shrq Al-Aswat quoted mem­ber of Sadr Trend in the par­lia­ment “Asma Al-Mousawi” about the U.S. raid in Syria say­ing that this is what warned of before and we knew that Iraq’s ter­ri­to­ries are going to be used by the Amer­i­cans to launch attacks on the neigh­bor­ing countries.

The Sadrists rejected the Kurds demand of secret vot­ing on SOFA’s accord in the par­lia­ment saying:

Those who ask some­thing like this are col­lab­o­rat­ing with the occupation.