Allawi’s threat to postpone the election

Three weeks ago, on the “Amer­i­can For­eign Pol­icy Coun­cil” some­body called Ilan Berman asked this ques­tion “Remem­ber Moq­tada al-Sadr?”

First, where is Moq­tada? Here he is, hug­ging and kiss­ing Al-Asaib leader Qais Al-Khazaali in Qom — Iran. Moq­tada payed Al-Khazaali a visit in the Asaib Al-Haq head­quar­ter to nego­ti­ate his con­di­tional return to the Sadrists. Con­di­tions put by Al-Sadr are: 1) Return to the cen­tral office (the Sadrists) 2) No inter­fer­ence in pol­i­tics 3) Main­tain­ing the blood of the Iraqis 4) Return to his studies.

Sec­ond, if my cal­cu­la­tions are right, then Al-Sadr will fin­ish As-Sutuh stud­ies at the end of this year, he will grad­u­ate as “Muj­tahid” which will give him more reli­gious sta­tus and he have the right to give lessons ses­sions, but he is not nom­i­nated as Aya­tol­lah yet. He needs at least another 10 years (I will not go to the details).

On the recent cri­sis polit­i­cal cri­sis, a strange twist of events, IHEC decided not pub­lish the names of the excluded politi­cians pub­licly. Despite the rea­son given by the Com­mit­tee says that there is a pos­si­bil­ity that the final list of 511 con­tains “inno­cents”, the Com­mit­tee assured that Mut­laq is among the excluded names.

All those writ­ers who are inter­fer­ing in Iraqi elec­tions (from the Amer­i­can and West­ern view), for­got to men­tion that Allawi starts the threat to post­pone the elec­tion if no solu­tion reached to the cur­rent polit­i­cal crisis.

In his first speech announc­ing Al-Iraqiyya List, Allawi revealed that the U.S., EU and the Arab League promised to can­cel the deci­sions made by the Jus­tice and Account­abil­ity Com­mit­tee. Allawi even revealed that he met for­eign ambas­sadors, includ­ing the Amer­i­can ambassador.

These promises are started to become a real­ity after Allawi told Al-Arabiya the following:

The atmos­phere is no longer suit­able to hold a fair elec­tion in Iraq, we con­sider a with­draw and post­pone the elec­tion, but this may cause a disaster.

Reac­tions of con­dem­na­tions started to emerge from the U.S. and Euro­pean Union ques­tion the legit­i­macy of the Iraqi elections.

In its trurn, the Jus­tice and Account­abil­ity Com­mit­tee crit­i­cized Biden’s con­dem­na­tion say­ing that he [Biden] does not have the right to can­cel an arti­cle in the Iraqi con­sti­tu­tion, which was voted for by mil­lions of Iraqis.

P.S.

Keep an eye on Ammar Al-Hakim these days, He met with Al-Hashimi today before head­ing to Beirut to start his Arab coun­tries tour. For some rea­son (prob­a­bly related to Adil Abdul Al-Mehdi visit to Wash­ing­ton) Al-Hakim and Al-Hashimi decided to inten­sify their meet­ings in the com­ing period.