New details about the judicial investigation of the “leaks of al-Maliki”

Shafaq News / An informed judicial source revealed, on Tuesday, new details regarding the investigation opened by the Supreme Judicial Council, regarding the audio leaks of the leader of the State of Law coalition, Nuri al-Maliki.

The source told Shafak News Agency, “The investigations are still ongoing in accordance with legal and fundamental procedures, and this file has not been closed.”

And he indicated that “there are many specialized bodies participating in this investigation to reach the facts, and there is no pressure on the judicial authorities to close this file. Rather, there is a legal process that the investigation authorities are going through to announce the results in the near future.”

On the nineteenth of last June, the Supreme Judicial Council announced that the Karkh Investigation Court (in Baghdad) had received a request submitted to the Public Prosecution to take legal measures regarding the audio leaks.

In his speech, according to the recordings published by journalist blogger Ali Fadel, Al-Maliki touched on topics related to Sunni Arabs that were considered sectarian, in addition to describing the “popular mobilization” as “a nation of cowards”, while talking about arming clans and groups estimated at 20,000 fighters on the ground, asking him for support. Financially, logistically and legally, and he promised to provide this, in order to protect him from the leader of the Sadrist movement Muqtada al-Sadr, who wants to “slaughter everyone,” according to Al-Maliki.

The former prime minister also spoke about “financial and administrative corruption” in the PMF, and about the fact that the “Badr” organization, led by Hadi al-Amiri, receives financial salaries for about 40,000 people, while it does not have that number on the ground.

After these recordings, the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, asked al-Maliki to surrender himself and those who sought refuge from the corrupt to the judicial authorities.

The “Technology for Peace” team, the most famous Iraqi technical team, had confirmed the authenticity of the recordings attributed to al-Maliki, and said that they were “not fabricated”, noting in a report published earlier, that “despite the repeated denials of the owners of those recordings, and his claim I fabricated it by quoting and fitting excerpts from his voice to appear in this way, but the observations we made about the audio clip prove otherwise.

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Soon… Al-Kazemi to America

Shafaq News / An informed government source revealed today, Tuesday, an upcoming visit by Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi to the United States of America.

The source, who requested anonymity, told Shafak News Agency, “Al-Kazemi will go to America, in order to participate in the meetings of the United Nations General Assembly, to replace the President of the Republic, Barham Salih.”

And he indicated that “the reason for Al-Kazemi’s departure instead of Saleh is to discuss political developments and repercussions on the security and economic levels, and the opinion of the international community on this crisis, especially since Al-Kazemi will meet with senior officials in the world.”

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Al-Ugaili: Al-Halbousi seeks to implement the scheme of three international figures in Iraq

Information / Baghdad… The political analyst Sabah Al-Ugaili considered, on Tuesday, the information revealed by former MP Mishaan Al-Jubouri about Parliament Speaker Muhammad Al-Halbousi regarding the formation of a militia force to implement the conspiracy plan to divide Iraq and turn it into a group of regions sponsored by US President Joe Biden and UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Al-Ugaili said in a statement to “Information”, that “the Speaker of Parliament is a controversial and critical figure by not being late to respond to Biden, Bin Zayed and Erdogan, through his suspicious visit to Washington, Ankara and the UAE.”

He added, “What was revealed by former MP Mishaan al-Jubouri on one of the local channels confirms what we went to about diagnosing al-Halbousi in his involvement in the crisis by disrupting the work of Parliament and allowing the demonstrators to storm the legislative institution.”

Al-Ugaili explained, “Al-Halbousi is exposed to Sunnis and Shiites as a tool for implementing the scheme of Biden, Bin Zayed and Erdogan to turn Iraq into a group of regions and then divide it,” noting that “Al-Halbousi uses his powers as Speaker of Parliament to acquire advanced weapons to form a militia that is prepared for him and with the blood of Washington, Ankara and the UAE.”

The head of the Al-Watan Party, former MP Mishaan al-Jubouri, revealed a heavy-caliber piece of information on Monday evening, when he revealed that al-Halbousi was seeking to form an armed militia, indicating that he sought to bring arms from an international party.

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Coordination Framework: The Sadrist Movement Does Not Want To Solve The Crisis For This Reason

Earth News / The leader in the coordination framework, Fadel Mawat, revealed today, Tuesday, the reason that prompts the Sadrist movement to not accept any solutions to the political crisis that Iraq has been witnessing for more than ten months.

Mwat said, in an interview with “Earth News”, that “the Sadrist movement does not want to solve the political crisis, and rejects all initiatives and solutions, as it rejects any dialogue, and this confirms and indicates that the Sadrist movement wants the Al-Kazemi government to stay for a longer period by not dissolving it.” the crisis”.

Mowat stressed that “the forces of the coordination framework are determined to form a new government, during the next stage, and the resolution of this file will be after the end of the fortieth visit.”

He indicated that “there is no intention to renew Al-Kazemi’s mandate, and the framework adheres to his candidate for prime minister, Muhammad Shia Al-Sudani.”

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The defeat of the Iranian regime in Iraq

The Islamic regime in Iran did not realize the extent of the Iraqi problem in which it is drowning. Tehran believed that any Shiite population around the world would be a fertile ground for the recruitment of loyalists to the Iranian regime, so that they would become Shiites who would engage in its intelligence, terrorist and militia wars, and that Iraq, with a Shiite majority, would turn into the largest country affiliated with the Iranian regime.

But Tehran’s calculations failed for several reasons that the Iranians did not take into consideration, the first of which is the huge Iraqi Shiite bloc. In Lebanon, for example, there are a million and a half Shiites, and in Bahrain hundreds of thousands, which means that the Iranian regime can allocate salaries to the majority of the Shiites of Lebanon and Bahrain, and finance a network of social services for them and educational, health and recreational institutions.

In return for Iranian offerings, Tehran expects the loyalty of these Shiites to the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, so they do not skimp on Iran, and turn into “soldiers in the Wali al-Faqih Army,” according to the leader of the Lebanese “Hezbollah,” Hassan Nasrallah, and fight even their own compatriots to serve for Tehran.

The “Guardian of the Faithful Army” does everything that Iran asks of it, from the attempt to assassinate the writer Salman Rushdie in the United States, to throwing missiles from Lebanon at Israel to discourage it from disrupting the Iranian nuclear program, or to blackmail Iran’s neighboring countries, especially the Gulf states. This is in Lebanon and Bahrain.

But the situation in Iraq is completely different, where the Shiites number more than twenty million, which makes it impossible for Iran to allocate salaries to them or provide social services in exchange for their loyalty.

Moreover, the Iraqi state’s oil revenues are greater than Iran’s, which is what drives Iraqi leaders to race for power and use its revenues to establish rentier networks loyal to them and separate from Iran. To the conciliatory alliance with it only after his exit from power.

Iraq is superior to Iran in its Shiiteness. Iraq is the cradle of the Shiite sect, in which are the graves of six of the twelve imams: Ali bin Abi Talib, Hussein his son, Musa Al-Kadhim, Muhammad Al-Jawad, Ali Al-Hadi, and Al-Hassan Al-Askari. In the world of Shiites, Mecca leads the world’s cities in terms of its holiness, followed by Medina, then Najaf, where the shrine of Imam Ali, Karbala, the site of the killing of Hussein and his shrine and his brother Abbas. Najaf occupies a spiritual rank for Shiites, similar to the importance of the Vatican to Catholic Christians.

As for Iran, it is new to the Shiite sect, which was adopted by the Safavid Sufi groups to compete with the Ottoman sultans for the leadership of the Islamic world. In Mashhad in Iran, the shrine of Imam Ali al-Rida. In Qom, there is a shrine for an obscure Shiite figure whose history is disputed, Fatima, the sister of Ali al-Rida, who is called “Ma’sumah.” Granting Our Lady of infallibility contradicts the teachings of the Shiite sect, but the entry of the Iranians into the sect introduced with it many heresies, most of which the Arab Shiites still refuse to recognize.

Thus, in contrast to the weakness of Lebanon and Bahrain in front of Iran, numerically, financially and spiritually, Iraq surpasses Iran financially and spiritually, in addition to the fact that between Iraq and Iran a long historical feud that preceded Islam by centuries, which began since the Mesopotamian civilizations invaded Elam in southern Iran, then the Parthians invaded Babylon and its king, Nabunaid in The year 536 BC, followed by the invasion of the Sassanids in the year 274 AD. But the Arabs defeated the Sassanids in 651 and ruled Iran for nearly a thousand years, until the Safavids began forming the state of Persia, which expanded and became the Iran we know.

For this reason, it was easy for Saddam Hussein to incite the Iraqi Arab Shiites against the Iranian Shiites. Despite the sectarian similarities, the hostility and competition between the two civilizations has existed for more than two millennia.

Since the collapse of the Hussein regime in 2003, Iran has repeatedly tried to gather Iraqi Shiite leaders in various formats under the name “Shiite House,” and then tried to repeat the experience of the Lebanese “Hezbollah” by pushing generalized clerics to play leadership roles and establish parties and militias that still exist today and are called “militias.” Wilayat, meaning loyal to Khamenei.

Nevertheless, Iran’s militias in Iraq remained limited in popularity, at a time when organizations without capabilities, such as the successive militias established by the cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, outperformed them, for the sole reason that al-Sadr rode the wave of Iraqi patriotism.

Al-Sadr is distinguished from all the current Iraqi leaders that he and his father did not oppose Saddam Hussein from exile, but rather lived in Iraq before and after Saddam, which reinforced the impression of their patriotism much more than the exiled opponents such as Nuri al-Maliki, Haider al-Abadi, Hadi al-Amiri, the family of al-Hakim and the late Jamal al-Jarrah (Abu Mahdi). The engineer).

Today, Iran is carrying out all possible political maneuvers, simultaneous with the terrorism it exercises against its opponents, including the assassination of large numbers of them, with the aim of building a rule of iron and fire held by one of its Iraqi mercenaries. Tehran prefers that Maliki not be its man, because he suffers from megalomania and seeks only his personal interest.

Iranian violence and assassinations have not succeeded in silencing Tehran’s Iraqi opponents, who do not miss an opportunity without burning the Iranian consulate, Khamenei’s pictures in Iraq, or the statues of Qassem Soleimani. And last Monday, when confrontations erupted between Iran’s opponents on the one hand, especially from the Sadrist movement, and Tehran’s supporters, on the other, Iran’s opponents taught its allies a harsh lesson and outperformed them in fighting, burning the offices of the state militias, and winning popular sympathy and support, while Iran’s militias retreated and went It kills the Iraqis by stealth and through liquidations and executions, if we believe some of the reports carried by the Iraqi media.

Iraq exposed Iran and revealed that it is not a superpower as it imagines itself, but rather a ruling terrorist gang trying to intimidate the neighboring peoples and rule them with iron and fire. And Iraq showed Iran that doctrine is not superior to patriotism, and that the Iraqis will not retreat silently and turn into mercenaries, as some Shiites in Lebanon and Bahrain did.

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Iraq is on the “white list” of countries in the fight against money laundering

{Economic: Al Furat News} The financial and economic advisor to the Prime Minister Mazhar Muhammad Salih said that Iraq is currently on the white list of countries in applying international standards in combating money laundering.

Saleh said in a press statement, “Iraq succeeded in curbing financial waste and combating money laundering by building experienced supervisory bodies that are committed to laws and regulations related to the financial and banking system,” explaining that “the package of financial reforms and effective measures to pursue sources of funds, led Iraq to restore the confidence of society.” international financial and commercial transactions.

The Prime Minister’s advisor added that “Iraq fought a war on money laundering gangs and pursued transfers, deposits and concealment operations with high efficiency at home and abroad,” noting that “the Anti-Money Laundering Office and the Money of Crime and Terrorism Office, which is financially and administratively independent and carries out information coordination work, is closer to the Intelligence Unit.” Finance”.

Saleh pointed out that “the office receives instructions and directions from the Supreme Council for Combating Money Laundering, Crime Funds and Terrorism, and includes in its membership representatives of ministries and agencies related to combating money laundering and financial crimes.”

He pointed out that “the crimes investigated by the Anti-Money Laundering Office relate to the transfer, transfer, deposit and concealment of funds as criminal outcomes, related to a wide spectrum that falls within the definition of funds, whether in cash or in kind, such as real estate, antiquities and many others that are considered a financial crime for which the law is held accountable. Iraqi No. 39 of 2015”.

The Prime Minister’s advisor confirmed that “Iraq is a member of the International Labor Organization for the Middle East and North Africa,” explaining that this membership helped Iraq implement international standards in combating money laundering and exit from the gray list and enter the white list of countries that combat money laundering.

Last Thursday, the European Commission delegation delivered a letter to Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, which included removing Iraq from the European Union’s list of countries with high risks in the field of combating money laundering and terrorist
financing. According to the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In May 2020, the European Commission classified Iraq, along with other countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Iran and North Korea, on the list of countries that pose financial risks to the European Union, due to the shortcomings in combating money laundering and terrorist financing.

According to the Vienna Convention of 1988, the crime of money laundering is the transfer or transfer of funds with the knowledge that they are derived from any crime or crimes, with the aim of concealing or disguising the illegal source of funds or with the intention of helping any person involved in the commission of such crime or crimes to evade legal consequences for his actions.

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An Economist Reveals The Reasons For The Increase In Central Bank Sales Of The Dollar And Raises Exciting Questions

Earth News / The economic expert, Manar Al-Obaidi, revealed today, Sunday, the reasons for the increase in the Central Bank’s sales of the dollar, while asking questions to several government agencies.

Al-Obaidi said in a statement received by Earth News, “In order to clarify the picture, it is necessary first to understand the mechanism of the foreign currency sale window,” noting that “most of Iraq’s revenues are in US dollars, given that 92% of the Iraqi government’s revenues are from oil sales, and the Iraqi government’s expenses are mostly From the dinar, given that 90% of government expenses are operational expenses (salaries + subsidies + other service expenses).

Al-Obaidi added that “on the basis of these two rules, the government needs to sell the dollar and buy the dinar through the Central Bank, as the Ministry of Finance sold during this year to the Central Bank an amount of 33 billion US dollars to the Central Bank, which has to provide local cash to cover the value of dollar purchases. From the Ministry of Finance in order to cover the needs of the Iraqi government.”

He pointed out that “the sources of the dinar at the Central Bank are:

1. Local bank deposits of Iraqi dinar
3. Depositing government institutions from the Iraqi dinar
4. Dollar sales to the local market through the foreign exchange window, which is the largest part
5. Issuing and printing additional cash

And he indicated that “in the event that the first and second points are not sufficiently available to the Central Bank, the bank is forced either to increase dollar sales through the window to cover the dinar, or to print new cash to cover the need of the Iraqi government,” explaining that “the Central Bank’s sales of dollars through the currency sale window. Since the beginning of the year, it has reached nearly 28 billion dollars, meaning that the difference is about 5 billion dollars in favor of the Central Bank, in which the value of cash in dollars increased at the expense of the dinar.

He explained that “the Central Bank is forced to increase its sales of dollars with the increasing demand for the local currency from the Ministry of Finance and in order not to increase its issuance of a new monetary mass that may lead to an increase in inflation as a result of the rise in the monetary mass.”

Al-Obaidi pointed out that “the question is not directed to the Central Bank exclusively about the reasons for the rise in dollar sales through the window, but rather the questions are directed to:

Ministry of Finance: What is the need for the increasing demand for the dinar, which means an increase in the Iraqi government’s expenditures in the absence of a budget?

The Ministry of Commerce: It was noticed that the import licenses granted by you increased, and in light of them, the demand for buying dollars increased. Does Iraq actually need these imports, in light of which the licenses are granted?

Ministry of Finance, General Customs Authority: With the increase in the value of remittances related to imports and the increase in import licenses granted by the Ministry of Commerce, no significant increase in the Authority’s revenues was observed despite these rises, which means that a large part of the imports enter through unofficial ways and not through your authority, which means that there is a shortcoming in control of ports and customs?

The Ministry of Industry and Agriculture: The local product is still below the required level, which increases the country’s need to import and deplete foreign currency. and cultivation??

Anti-Money Laundering Unit: Are the procedures for verifying funds transferred out of funds from the correct sources and all audit procedures correct according to international standards, or has Iraq become a fertile market for money laundering?

Al-Obaidi concluded by saying that “the answer to these questions is more important than being attached to the central bank’s sale of the dollar for reasons not related to the economy as much as to interests and politics.”

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Al-Maliki comments on the decision to appeal the resignation of the Sadrist bloc’s deputies

Information / special… A member of the State of Law coalition, Abbas al-Maliki, commented today, Sunday, on the decision to appeal the resignation of the Sadrist bloc’s deputies to the Federal Court to return to the House of Representatives again, while stressing that these decisions will confuse the political reality and the Iraqi people.

Al-Maliki said, in an interview with the “Information” agency, that “this legal behavior of the Sadrist movement is correct and that they have submitted an appeal to the competent court with the aim of challenging their resignation. From a logical and mental point of view, I say that the withdrawal of the Sadrist movement was not a judicial, legal or political decision on the other hand, but it is It was a withdrawal of the bloc’s will.”

He added, “It is not permissible for the Sadrist bloc to challenge a decision that it took, and no one forced it,” noting that “such behavior will lead to more confusion in the Iraqi political and social reality and disregard the Iraqi political, legal and judicial norms.”

A member of al-Maliki’s coalition explained that “political action must be solid and based on the foundations of moderation, logicality and balance, and so behaviors that seem far from logic and balance,” pointing out that “political blocs must determine their options from the beginning. Or it leaves politics and plays a new role.

Al-Maliki continued: “As for political action and others outside it, what is the fault of the Iraqi street to bear such decisions, actions and confusing steps?”

The legal expert, Mohsen Al-Ugaili, had confirmed earlier today, that “from a legal point of view, the resignation does not need a vote,” and it is likely that “the Federal Court will dismiss the case when it looks at it from a legal point of view.” Done/25 SR

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The Federal Court receives an appeal against the resignation of the Sadrist MPs

Shafaq News / A judicial source said on Sunday that the Federal Supreme Court will consider an appeal against the validity of the dismissal of the Sadrist bloc deputies at the end of this September.

The source told Shafak News Agency; That “the Federal Supreme Court received a suit to challenge the acceptance of the resignations of the Sadrist bloc’s deputies by the Presidency of the House of Representatives (No. 181 / Federal / 2022)”.

The source added; The Federal Court set the date for the first session to consider the case on September 28.

On June 13, al-Sadr directed deputies of the Sadrist bloc in the Iraqi parliament to hand over their resignations to the speaker of the parliament, Muhammad al-Halbousi, while he thanked his allies in the “Save the Homeland” coalition and told them that they “are in a solution.”

Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi signed the resignations of the Sadrist bloc’s deputies, in the presence of the parliamentary bloc’s leader, Hassan al-Adhari, and then commented, “Their resignations took place reluctantly,” referring to efforts made to dissuade al-Sadr from this step.

The political impasse worsened after the resignation of Sadr’s representatives, who demanded the dissolution of the Iraqi parliament and the holding of early elections.

Tensions escalated sharply on Monday, August 29, when Sadr loyalists stormed the government palace inside the fortified Green Zone after their leader announced his “retirement” from politics.

But Sadr’s supporters left the Green Zone on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 30, 2022, after he personally asked them to withdraw within an hour, reflecting his great influence on his followers and which earned him his reputation as a ruler.

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Al-Halbousi’s initiative came in agreement with these political parties

Shafaq News / A close associate of Parliament Speaker, Muhammad al-Halbousi, revealed new details about the initiative put forward by the latter, related to the national dialogue sessions to resolve the political crisis.

Al-Maqrib told Shafaq News Agency, “The political initiative put forward by Al-Halbousi came and the consensus between the Sovereignty Alliance, the Sadrist Movement and the Kurdistan Democratic Party,” noting that “this initiative is supported by these three parties.”

The source also indicated that “communication between the parties to the (Save a Homeland) coalition is still ongoing, and there are many steps that come in coordination between these three parties, the latest of which is the initiative announced by Al-Halbousi, which will be supported by Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, the sponsor of the national dialogue sessions.”

Earlier this morning, Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi stressed the need to agree on a number of matters before proceeding with holding the next national dialogue sessions, most notably setting a date for early elections in the country.

Al-Halbousi said in a tweet to him on the social networking sites “Twitter”, “The agenda of the upcoming national dialogue sessions must include a number of things that the political process cannot proceed without agreement on them: setting a date for the early parliamentary elections and the provincial elections at a maximum date.” The end of next year, and the election of the President of the Republic, the selection of a government with full authority, agreed upon and trusted and reassured by the people and their political forces.

Among the issues raised by Al-Halbousi is the reinterpretation of Article 76 of the Constitution, the abolition of the shameful circumvention in the manipulation of the provision of this article, which occurred under political pressure after the 2010 elections, adding the adoption of the Federal General Budget Law, proposing at the same time to maintain or amend the Parliament Elections Law, as well as legislating a law Federal Supreme Court and according to Article 92 of the Constitution.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives also referred to “the redeployment of military and security forces of all kinds, and the Ministry of the Interior is exclusively responsible for the deployment and imposition of security in all cities, and the rest of the forces will be in their natural place in the training and deployment camps determined by the military and security leadership to provide everything necessary to be prepared with the for any emergency.

He stressed the need for “the immediate return of all the innocent displaced people who were displaced from their homes and have not been able to return to it until now.”

He also called for “regulating the relationship between the federal government and the government of the Kurdistan Region with a public agreement for the people until the adoption of the oil and gas law.”

Today, Monday, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi is scheduled to invite the political forces and parties to hold a dialogue session with the aim of overcoming the political crisis facing the country.

An informed source told Shafaq News Agency, that Al-Kazemi is working to hold a meeting next Monday for all Iraqi political forces in order to find solutions to the political crisis.

He added that the meeting was threatened with cancellation or postponement, as happened previously, if it was boycotted by some political forces, led by the Sadrist movement.

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