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Sadr demands Referendum on SOFA; Sistani said to Support Referendum
CNN is reporting that Shiite leader Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr is demanding that any US-Iraqi security agreement be submitted to a national referendum.Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that he is in good company:' Sources close to the office of the Shiite Supreme Exemplar, Ayatollah Ali Sistani, told al-Hayat that he called on the Iraqi prime minister during the latter's visit to Najaf recently, to deal cautiously with the agreement and called on him to organize a national referendum on it.' So the idea of a national referendum on any Status of Forces agreement seems to be spreading. In my view, one impetus for this adoption of a California-style referendum approach is that the Iraqi parliament is not seen as strong enough to express the will of the people. Parliament often cannot hold a session because it lacks a quorum. The United Iraqi Alliance and the Kurdistan Alliance run it as a tyranny of the majority, when the UIA can get Shiite independents to vote with it. Often if al-Maliki is af
Juancole.com Thursday, May 29, 2008
Juancole.com Thursday, May 29, 2008
On Wednesday, the Sunni fundamentalist Iraqi Accord Front (IAF, Tawafuq) withdrew from talks on rejoining the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of the Shiite fundamentalist Islamic Mission Party (Da'wa).Despite the confidence of Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni, that his bloc would eventually rejoin the government, the development was a blow to al-Maliki. Al-Sharqiya television had reported on Tuesday (via USG Open Source Center and BBC Monitoring): "The United Nations has committed Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to present the names of the new ministers to his government before the beginning of the International Compact Conference on Iraq that will be held in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Informed sources said that Al-Maliki held a meeting with Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi after Al-Tawafuq Front MPs suddenly escalated their tone against the Iraqi Government, accusing it of impeding a settlement and of humiliating the Front, as was said by Al-Tawafuq Front
Juancole.com Thursday, May 29, 2008
Juancole.com Thursday, May 29, 2008
The moral of the below: If you can't join them, beat them.Reddit readers have dug up an article by Jason Leopold alleging that Halliburton, of which Dick Cheney was CEO in 1995-2000, and which did business in Iran until 2007, supplied Iran with equipment that could have been useful to its nuclear program. Among Halliburton's Iranian partners was Cyrus Nasseri, who was also a point man in the Iranian nuclear program. Leopold's update shows that Cheney lobbied intensively on behalf of Iran in Congress in the late 1990s. (He also tried to get the boycott on Saddam Hussein's Iraq lifted).The USG Foreign Broadcast Information Service, as carried by BBC Monitoring, translated this article from an Iranian newspaper in 2005. It supports the substance of Leopold's article. It contains a twist, though, accusing Halliburton of espionage on the Iranian nuclear program.'January 18, 2005, TuesdayIran's nuclear negotiator said behind contract with USA's HalliburtonSOURCE: Resalat web site, Tehr
Juancole.com Thursday, May 29, 2008
Juancole.com Thursday, May 29, 2008
Haikal: The U.S. to stay in Iraq for 12 years
This is published on many Arab newspapers today, the speech of Mohammad Hassanein Haikal in which he explains the situation in the Middle East and Arab countries, sadly we don’t have the full speech except some briefings and Three minutes video.
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On the U.S. occupation of Iraq, Haikal said that the U.S. goal and its policy [...]
Roads to Iraq Thursday, May 29, 2008
Roads to Iraq Thursday, May 29, 2008
This is an American military, economic, and cultural domination
For the first time, I see Muqtada Al Sadr and Harith Al Dhari agree on something, which is ht rejection of the U.S. - Iraq long-term presence treaty, this what the AMSI statement says:
Despite continues public rejection of long-term presence agreement with the U.S. occupation, and despite the [AMSI]’s warning to the government of the [...]
Roads to Iraq Thursday, May 29, 2008
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