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A threat of a Sunni-Kurdish confederation or a test balloon?

Another Turkish-Iraqi ties hec­tic day as Iraq sum­moned the Turk­ish ambas­sador to express unease over Turkey’s poli­cies towards Iraq, while Ankara and Irbil become closer as Turkey’s most senior diplo­mat held unan­nounced meet­ing with Masoud Barzani, leader of the Kur­dis­tan … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraq’s Federalism, upside down, north and west

Upside down In 2005, nearly 12 mil­lion Iraqis res­i­dents of the south­ern provinces and north­ern Iraq demon­strated to say “Yes” to Iraq’s per­ma­nent con­sti­tu­tion. The con­sti­tu­tion is boy­cotted by the Sunni major­ity west­ern provinces who opposed this ref­er­en­dum. Time is … Con­tinue read­ing

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Between the hammer and the anvil, US presence in Iraq and Maliki’s future will be decided today

Between the US ham­mer and the Iran­ian anvil, not only the US pres­ence in Iraq, but Maliki’s future will be decided today. Iraqi Pres­i­dent Talabani’s call for a meet­ing among the lead­ers of the polit­i­cal coali­tions is the meet­ing which … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraq: Al-Sadr blocked the Kurds deal with Baghdad

Few hours after the Kur­dis­tan Alliance declared its deter­mi­na­tion and the polit­i­cal will to nego­ti­ate the oil law and to visit the Supreme reli­gious author­ity in Najaf, Moq­tada Al-Sadr announced his clear rejec­tion of fed­er­al­ism before the Kurds take this move. It … Con­tinue read­ing

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Maliki’s multi-“small wars”

Iraqi Prime Min­is­ter Maliki is cur­rently fac­ing many “small wars” on many fronts. An already declared war with the Iraqiya List, par­tic­u­larly with its leader, Iyad Allawi, and three “silent wars” with the so-called part­ners who are the Sadrists and … Con­tinue read­ing

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The eleven reasons to explain Barzani’s decision of Kurdistan Region self-determination (and the backfire)

Not only bad tim­ing, but Barzani’s “Kurds self-determination” argu­ment in the Con­fer­ence of the Kur­dis­tan Demo­c­ra­tic Party started to back­fire, and the result is an agree­ment between Allawi and Maliki (among other rea­sons, such as Muq­tada Al-Sadr to trans­form Iraq … Con­tinue read­ing

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Winners, losers and lost momentum

From the many arti­cles I read today (mostly on the west­ern media), all came to one con­clu­sion: Maliki is the win­ner, and the Kurds lost heav­ily with one pres­i­den­tial office. In my opin­ion it is the other way around, Kurds … Con­tinue read­ing

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The creation of the Sectarian Maliki(te) Republic of Iraq

Maliki chal­lenged his inter­nal and exter­nal rivals threat­ened that he will top­ple them all tomor­row in the par­lia­ment, con­sid­er­ing tomor­row, as not only the date of the for­ma­tion of his gov­ern­ment but also the cre­ation of the Iraqi state, which … Con­tinue read­ing

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Scenes from Irbil meeting – going to Saudi Arabia

Update Allawi’s with­drawal and Hashimi’s absence from today’s meet­ing in Bagh­dad con­firm what I wrote below yes­ter­day. Another update Al-Hakim and Adil Abd Al-Mahdi both with­draw from the meet­ing. 1– The emer­gence of a sharp line between those who want … Con­tinue read­ing

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The “round table” meeting

The Fed­eral Court Before the Fed­eral Court’s deci­sion to can­cel the Parliament’s open ses­sion, Lebanese news­pa­per Al-Mustaqbal expected this order say­ing: Maliki Pres­sure on the par­lia­men­tary blocs to speed up the solu­tion of the polit­i­cal cri­sis to coin­cide with rapid changes … Con­tinue read­ing

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