Syria … Saudi Arabia and the formation of the Iraqi government

Time is run­ning out, and noth­ing in the hori­zon con­firms the pos­si­bil­ity of reach­ing a sat­is­fac­tory polit­i­cal solu­tion that would stop the UN Secu­rity Coun­cil from tak­ing a deci­sion in its meet­ing (within five days) on the Iraqi gov­ern­ment cri­sis. The expec­ta­tions are -) appoint­ing a gov­er­nor in Iraq -) an Iraqi national unity government.

At the same time, Shi­ites coali­tions started to cir­cu­late the exis­tence of a regional con­spir­acy to with­draw power from the Shi­ites under the pre­text of fail­ing to main­tain power or agreed to nom­i­nate a can­di­date for the premiership.

Accord­ing to the last news leaks, both Shi­ite coali­tions joined by influ­en­tial reli­gious author­i­ties and in coor­di­na­tion with Tehran started to inten­sify their high-level meet­ings to adopt a uni­fied posi­tion before the Secu­rity Coun­cil meet­ing on the Fourth of August next month.

Also the Shi­ites coali­tions started to link between the meet­ing of the Secu­rity Coun­cil and the cur­rent visit of the Saudi King Abdul­lah to Egypt, Jor­dan, Syria and Lebanon, which comes at a crit­i­cal time of the Iraq issue.

This link is con­firmed with the new infor­ma­tion revealed by Al-Iraqiya leader “Fat­tah Al-Sheikh”, say­ing that Saudi Ara­bia and Syria are coop­er­at­ing to appoint Allawi as Iraq’s Prime Min­is­ter, same as the appoint­ment of Lebanese Prime Min­is­ter Sa’ad Hariri a year ago after an agree­ment between the same both countries.

Iran seems to accept Maliki (as long as he is not Allawi), the most inter­est­ing devel­op­ment in the pre­vi­ous days is that both major Shi­ites blocs (the Sadrists and the Supreme Coun­cil) for the first time, pub­licly started to chal­lenge Iran and the supreme cler­ics by insist­ing on reject­ing Maliki