Baqeri said, during the recent negotiations, Iran had asked the Americans why they would not allow the Iraqi police to use up-to-date weapons, why they could not establish security in Iraq with over 150 thousand soldiers, and also why they ignored the fact that certain groups are becoming armed in Iraq.
Washington, which has long been eyeing Iraq’s oil reserves– the second largest in the world–, has been exerting pressures on the Iraqi government and parliament to pass a controversial oil draft law that safeguards the interests of foreign oil companies rather than of the Iraqi nation. The US has been pushing on with the law, claiming that it will guarantee a more equitable distribution of oil revenues among Iraqis. Yet another baseless claim aimed at disguising the real motivation of the Bush Administration.
Members of al-Qaeda and the terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) have launched an attack on the Vajiheh district, northern Iraq. A website affiliated to Iraq’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan reported that four people have been killed and some others injured in the attack.
…Baghdad will not let armed forces use its territory against the Islamic Republic of Iran..Iraq believes that under the current regional and international circumstances, armed clashes have the same meaning as terrorism; stressing Baghdad would not allow terrorists to use its soil …
former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari, came under heavy pressure from US officials to stop his criticism of the widespread and unwarranted interference by Washington in Iraqi domestic affairs. Later the United Iraqi Alliance led by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim was forced to replace al-Jafari with al-Maliki.
In response to a question about pressures imposed by some Arab states on Iraqi government to revise the de-Baathification law and their wish to return the infamous Baath party members to power, Hakim said”these elements refuse to understand the changes and realities in Iraq”. Hakim stressed the law has been unanimously endorsed by the Iraqi nation and will be enforced.
In early 2007, the Iraqi government announced that MKO interferes in Iraq’s internal affairs and ordered them to leave the Arab country. Meanwhile, the Iraqi government spokesman said that MKO can choose between returning to Iran or go to another country. Ali al-Dabbagh stressed that Iraqi Constitution does not allow granting asylum to any terrorist organization
Hosseini recalled the crimes perpetrated by the MKO including the murder of many Iranian high-ranking officials and civilians. He lambasted the EU for failing to enter the so-called ‘National Resistance Council of Iran in its list of terrorist organizations and called on the EU to avoid a selective approach.
An Iranian anti-terrorism association has called on the Iraqi government to expel the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) from the country. A representative of the Habilian Association, Javad Hashemi, made the request during a meeting with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minster Barham Saleh on Wednesday. The US administration has blocked efforts for expulsion of the terrorist group from the Iraqi soil.
A senior Iraqi prosecutor has said there is evidence to suggest the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization is involved in the ongoing violence in Iraq. “The Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court has been provided with documents on the Mujahedin Khalq Organization’s (MKO) crimes against the people in southern Iraq and the people of Tuz Khormato in the south of Kirkuk,”