Major development in Iraq: Mutlaq banned, Allawi threatens to quit

Major devel­op­ment in Iraq today, which and not reported by the media yet, will have seri­ous con­se­quences in the com­ing days:

The Account­abil­ity and Jus­tice Com­mit­tee (for­mally known as “De-Ba’athification”, a com­mit­tee with­out head till today) ruled out the ban of Saleh Al-Mutlaq Secretary-General of the “National Dia­logue Front” from par­tic­i­pat­ing in the election.

The Com­mit­tee said that con­di­tions put to pre­vent can­di­dates and enti­ties who are linked to Ba’ath Party and ter­ror orga­ni­za­tions from par­tic­i­pat­ing in the elec­tion are fully applic­a­ble to Mut­laq and his polit­i­cal entity, accord­ing to arti­cle 7.

Arti­cle 7:

Pro­hi­bi­tion of Enti­ties or par­ties that adopts racism, ethnic-cleansing, incite, facil­i­tate, glo­rify, pro­mote, or jus­tify ter­ror­ism, espe­cially Saddam’s Baath in Iraq and its sym­bols, under any name, shall not be within the polit­i­cal process in Iraq.

Mutlaq’s ally Ayad Allawi threat­ened to with­draw from the polit­i­cal process and boy­cott the elec­tion, if the Com­mit­tee excluded the “National Dia­logue Front” from the election.

Spokesman of the “National Dia­logue Front” Haidar Al-Mula linked the Iran­ian For­eign Min­is­ter Manouchehr Mottaki’s visit to the ban say­ing: “This deci­sion came to sat­isfy Mottaki”.

Speak­ing about Mottaki’s visit, he repeated Iran’s demand of shar­ing the Fakka oil between both coun­tries. A group of Iraqi MPs signed a doc­u­ment called “Iraqi MPs against the Iran­ian occu­pa­tion”. In the doc­u­ment they (mostly Sun­nis) refused any nego­ti­a­tions with the occupation.

P.S.

Will report tomor­row, how the new devel­op­ment is linked to Saudi Arabia.