Two impor­tant devel­op­ment for the last few days are:

i- Accord­ing to Saudi news­pa­per Al-Watan: The Kur­dish Alliance is ready to aban­don its demand for the “Pres­i­dent” post, and will accept the “Par­lia­ment Speaker” post.

ii- A new scan­dal revealed by Al-Sharqiya TV. A video clip shows Iraqi army mem­bers tor­ture the a body of a dead per­son. The video clip started a new row about human rights in Iraq.

It seems that the inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion of the cur­rent polit­i­cal cri­sis is the only weapon Al-Iraqiya List can use against its rivals (and every­body is afraid of), espe­cially that there is sym­pa­thy from the Arabs, sub-regional and inter­na­tional with the Al-Iraqiya List. Maliki crit­i­cized Allawi’s attempts to inter­na­tion­al­ize the cri­sis, and Allawi denied these accu­sa­tions say­ing that the Iraq is already internationalized.

As for Maliki, his options are also lim­ited, and he needed to change his tac­tics from calmly wait­ing what the votes-recount brings to esca­late his direct attacks on his rivals.

A day after a com­ment made by Al-Iraqiya spokesman Haider Al-Mulla, which he said that the inter­na­tional will, brought Nuri al-Maliki from the slums of “Al-Seida Zainab” neigh­bor­hood in Dam­as­cus (where Maliki lived before the occu­pa­tion) to the prime min­is­ter seat in Iraq, a state­ment that caused resent­ment among the Iraqi polit­i­cal cir­cles, includ­ing many within the Al-Iraqiya Coali­tion itself, Maliki in his speech in Kar­bala stressed on his refusal to the call for the for­ma­tion of a care­taker government.

Maliki also refused to rec­og­nize the exis­tence of a con­sti­tu­tional vac­uum in the coun­try, a refusal came two days before the next meet­ing of the Pres­i­den­tial Coun­cil on Mon­day, which is called by Vice Pres­i­dent Tareq al-Hashemi to dis­cuss the issue of a con­sti­tu­tional vac­uum. Pres­i­dent Jalal Tal­a­bani deny that he had received any call from Vice Pres­i­dent Tariq Al-Hashemi on an urgent meet­ing of Iraq’s Pres­i­dency Coun­cil on Mon­day to exam­ine the cur­rent polit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion in Iraq, few hours later, Tal­a­bani wel­comed the call of an urgent meeting.

Al-Iraqiya in its turn, announced that its spokesman Haidar Al-Mulla received death threat from Maliki’s office. Al-Damluji said that Mul­lah received a threat Tele­phone call from the Office of the Prime Minister.

Despite that the Sadrists agreed with Maliki in their rejec­tion to inter­na­tion­al­ize the cri­sis, Maliki also indi­rectly accused the Sadrists of plan­ning to attack the “Green Zone” with mor­tar bar­rage. Amir Al-Kanani sec­re­tary gen­eral of the “Lib­eral Move­ment” (Ahrrar) the polit­i­cal wing of the Sadrist move­ment, rejected Maliki’s remarks, say­ing that Maliki does not need to threaten, he must name the bloc who have threat­ened to strike the Green Zone.