Iraqi gov­ern­ment dis­trib­uted images like this one, to the pub­lic that Fakka oil well is under the government’s con­trol. Short lived pro­pa­ganda because at the same day Mis­san oper­a­tions mil­i­tary com­man­der announced that Iran still con­trols the well.

Shi­ite reli­gious par­ties couldn’t believe that Iran started the Fakka oil well issue at this sen­si­tive elec­tion time.

The Shi­ite par­ties man­aged to con­tain the pre­vi­ous Iran­ian pres­sure on the Shi’ite south­ern Iraq, espe­cially the three south­ern provinces (Amara, Nasiriyah and Basra) over the past months to cut off elec­tri­cal power line, con­tracted by the Iraqi gov­ern­ment ear­lier with Iran to sup­ply elec­tric­ity to Basra, and after that block­ing the Karun River to Shat Al-Arab.

But the occu­pa­tion of Al-Fakka oil, Iran didn’t left any flex­i­ble mar­gin for its Shi­ite allies to maneu­ver the pub­lic opinion.

Embar­rassed and trapped between the ham­mer of Iran­ian influ­ence, Shi­ite polit­i­cal par­ties (Dawa Party, Supreme Coun­cil and the Sadrists), accused the Ba’athists and and those who are “loyal to Sad­dam” and still exists in some polit­i­cal par­ties (Allawi and Mut­laq) of stag­ing these demonstrations.

Ba’ath Party released a state­ment con­demns the Iran­ian inva­sion of the Fakka oil well, and so did the Iraqi resis­tance unites