A ditch along the Syrian border, court ruled that SOFA can be passed by the simple majority

Awan learned that the Iraqi gov­ern­ment decided to dig a ditch with 210 km long, [3 km deep ??] along the Syr­ian bor­der. The project will be fin­ished in two months.

Al-Hayat reported that Obama will try soon to con­tact the Iraqi lead­ers to end the secu­rity agree­ment issue. No fur­ther details about “how” and “when but the news­pa­per assured that the Iraqi Polit­i­cal Coun­cil will react pos­i­tively on the final Amer­i­can draft.

The inter­est­ing part of the report is:

The [Iraqi] Gov­ern­ment is not wor­ried about the agree­ment itself, but the next U.S. admin­is­tra­tion headed by Obama, and the pos­si­bil­ity of not approv­ing the agree­ment and this is his con­sti­tu­tional right. We don’t have any U.S. guar­an­tees, only a known Amer­i­can prac­tice that the new pres­i­dent will not veto an agree­ments signed by his predecessor.

Yet, in other report the news­pa­per affirmed that gov­ern­ment speaker Al-Dabagh said today:

The Amer­i­can amend­ments are not enough, there must be more changes in Wash­ing­ton need the approval of the Iraqi government.

Even the Con­sti­tu­tional Court ruled today that SOFA can be passed in the Iraqi par­lia­ment by the “sim­ple majority”.

The expla­na­tion for these con­flict­ing reports is that Al-Dabagh wants more changes in the agree­ment came after Sistani’s state­ment yes­ter­day.