- Some inter­est­ing words from Barzani, say­ing that the Amer­i­can promises are much more impor­tant than the parliament’s seats. Kur­dis­tan regional gov­ern­ment refused to say what are these promises, but Kirkuk MP Omar Al-Jabouri said the Amer­i­cans promised the Kurds to give them Kirkuk, imple­ment­ing, arti­cle 140 on Kirkuk (new cri­sis? 85 votes in the par­lia­ment rejected the U.S. promises, say­ing it bypass Iraq’s sov­er­eignty. Insist­ing that Arti­cle 140 is already expired, the best way is to write a new arti­cle, gives jus­tice to all fac­tions in Kirkuk).

True or not, there are some kind of sus­pi­cious deal deal going on between the two, which made a Kur­dish del­e­ga­tion to go to the U.S. prepar­ing the path to Barzani’s visit to the U.S. soon.

Few scan­dals today:

- Al-Sharqiya TV revealed that a day before Maliki’s hear­ing in the par­lia­ment, Dawa Party held a secret meet­ing with the Islamic Party, where the talks focused on house speaker Iyad Al-Samarrai to avoid ask­ing Maliki embar­rass­ing ques­tions and to make the meet­ing closed as much as pos­si­ble in exchange that Maliki will appoint num­ber of mem­bers of the Islamic Party can­di­dates as deputy-ministries, and to solve the issue of the arrest of two mem­bers of Islamic Party from Diyala province who detained early this year (this why I said the ques­tions were too soft).

- In the par­lia­ment hear­ing ses­sion of the defense and inte­rior min­is­ters today, dis­putes erupted after mem­bers of the par­lia­ment dis­cov­ered that the U.S. embassy del­e­ga­tion was lis­ten­ing to the dis­cus­sions sit­ting a hall over­look­ing at par­lia­ment. It seems that deputy-House speaker Al-Atiya gave the Amer­i­cans the per­mis­sion to “lis­ten”, par­lia­ment mem­bers refused to con­tinue the ses­sion sug­gest­ing the the Amer­i­cans should leave.