After the famous phone call between Obama and Barzani, that made the Kur­dish leader to change his mind allow­ing the elec­tion law to pass, Al-Hayat reveals the deal between the two:

A high-level polit­i­cal sources told Al-Hayat that the U.S. admin­is­tra­tion promised to ensure the Kurds weight in the Iraqi equa­tion, regard­less of the size of par­lia­men­tary rep­re­sen­ta­tion. The source said that Barazani com­plained about the delib­er­ate inten­tion to limit the Kurds’ role in Bagh­dad, by with­draw­ing Pres­i­dent post from the Kurds giv­ing it to the Sun­nis. The Amer­i­can promised to keep the eth­nic and sec­tar­ian bal­ance in the Iraqi equation.

In today’s explo­sions, Maliki’s used the same accu­sa­tions that the Baath Party is the one behind the explo­sion, he even said this yes­ter­day in online Q&A with journalists:

Q– [You] repeat­edly said that here is a ban on the Baath Party in Iraq, accom­pa­nied by accu­sa­tions of bomb­ings. There are reports say that the United States will hold a con­fer­ence with the Baath Party in Wash­ing­ton, next Feb­ru­ary, to take them back to the polit­i­cal process what is your reac­tion to this Amer­i­can, do you think Amer­ica will take this step?

A– If these news are true and I doubt it, the U.S. con­fer­ence with Baath Party is a vio­la­tion to SOFA con­text because the U.S. will side an ide­ol­ogy no less dan­ger­ous than al-Qaeda, and will effect our rela­tions negatively.

The infor­ma­tion about a meet­ing between the U.S. and the Baath party are true, They are already met two weeks ago in an “North-African” Arab capi­tol and they decided to meet again in Washington.