Des­per­ate attempts to give the US ambas­sador Christo­pher Hill all the cred­its, but Lar­i­jani just left the coun­try today after meet­ings with the Par­lia­ment and Sis­tani, the Iraqi par­lia­ment approved the elec­tion law … Which means Iran gave the green light to pass the law or Iran gave the US the OK to with­draw its forces from Iraq.

Still insist that the elec­tion will be post­poned, and I am refer­ring to what the head of the IHEC state­ment today:

The elec­tion will be post­poned despite the par­lia­ment approval

Lets see the law:

Accord­ing to the law Iraq will be divided into 19 con­stituen­cies, 18 in Iraq and an addi­tional con­stituency to vot­ers out­side the country.

Kirkuk men­tioned at least 5 times in the law (Barzani’s con­di­tion was to ignore men­tion­ing Kirkuk in the law).

- Chris­tians will be given 5 seats dis­trib­uted among 5 provinces –Kirkuk –Ninawa –Bagh­dad –Irbil –Dohuk.

- Yazidis and Chabak will be given 1 seat for each in Ninawa province.

- Man­daeans will be given 1 seat in Baghdad.

There is also indi­rect men­tion of Kirkuk in this article:

Provinces will doubt­ful reg­istry records are provinces pop­u­la­tion growth rate exceeds 5% annu­ally, the request must signed by at least 50 MPs and will be approved in the Par­lia­ment by sim­ple majority.

And here

The Par­lia­ment will form a com­mit­tee from its mem­bers to inves­ti­gate Kirkuk province (and each province of dubi­ous records)…

And more

The elec­tion results in Kirkuk province or any province will not be con­sid­ered doubt­ful before the end of the elec­toral reg­is­ter check­ing process of checking.