ISCI conference

ISCI held its con­fer­ence and chose Ammar Al-Hakim as a per­ma­nent leader (as expected), but one inter­est­ing thing; the con­fer­ence end state­ment approached Ammar Al-Hakim as “Hujut-Al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen” (Verse of Islam and Mus­lim), which is a high ranked reli­gious title, Ammar Al-Hakim doesn’t own a any reli­gious title.

The ISCI’s end state­ment pre­sented a col­lec­tion of demands, such as:

- ISCI asks to drop Iraq’s debt’s (Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim is the one who asked for com­pen­sa­tion for Iran).

- The ISCI called to fight the finan­cial and admin­is­tra­tive cor­rup­tion, while the Finan­cial Min­is­ter Baqir Solgh is ISCI member.

- ISCI says that basic ser­vices doesn’t exist and not avail­able for more than six years, while ISCI is part of the same gov­ern­ment for six years.

In a press con­fer­ence, The Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Mon­i­tor core­spon­dent asked this question:

Q- We noticed sev­eral recent meet­ings with Iran­ian offi­cials. Have you received assur­ances from those offi­cials to put pres­sure on some groups and mili­tias within Iran, espe­cially that the Amer­i­cans accused Iran of bomb­ing a mar­ket mar­ket in Baghdad?

A- There are fre­quent accu­sa­tions, which need to fur­ther ver­i­fi­ca­tion. Iran announced more than once, and I con­firmed that through my meet­ings with Iran­ian offi­cials, its will to sup­port and estab­lish secu­rity and sta­bil­ity and to stand with the Iraqi peo­ple to over­come the crisis.