By Mark Pyruz
According to AFP:
Iraqi political blocs have held talks with Iran over a standoff sparked by a warrant for the arrest of the country's Sunni Arab vice president that has stoked sectarian tensions, officials said Tuesday.
Charges that Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi ran a death squad have plunged Iraq into political crisis, and representatives of several parties have spoken to top officials in Tehran, according to senior political sources in Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdish region, where Hashemi is holed up.
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"Iraqi parties are contacting Iran to mediate over the Hashemi issue," an official close to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile, three political sources belonging to parties including the ruling Kurdistania alliance said a senior Iranian delegation met with Kurdish regional President Massud Barzani and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, in recent days to discuss the Hashemi arrest warrant.
The delegation, which includes officials from the Iranian intelligence service and army, was headed by Sardar Majidi, the deputy chief of the Quds Force of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, according to the sources, who did not want to be named.
They said the delegation pushed for a meeting of senior political leaders, but Maliki refused to attend any meeting held in Arbil, and Barzani declined to join talks in Baghdad.
Two independent Kurdish newspapers, Awene and Baas, have also reported that a top Iranian delegation visited Iraq and made the request.
It appears IRGC Quds Force is ever more a pivotal player in Iraqi affairs, involving the near full range of Iraq's political spectrum. This is all the more amazing as the United States government considers IRGC-QF to be a "terrorist organization."
It might even be claimed that Iran -- not the United States -- is and will be the vital influence that effects and maintains Iraqi political stability in the crucial months to come. Iran has long maintained that regional security is best achieved through intra-regional participation, free of external influence. Iraq represents the most visible model for Iran's policy to take effect.
11 comments:
The Sunnis in Iraq think that by a combination of bloody suicide attacks, plus threats, they can again retake power from the majority Shiites. I hope Maliki is successful in standing up to them.
Assisting in what?
Killing Iraqi Sunnis.
Stay out of Iraq.
Syria is falling hard we must act to save syria
All akhoonds should go and live in their true spiritual homeland Iraq.
Anon 5:55 PM
Assisting in what?
Killing Iraqi Sunnis.
Do you have any proof to back up your dubious claim?
Stay out of Iraq.
Tell that to the Iraqi political blocs. It was they who invited Iran to participate in the political crisis.
~~~Syria is falling hard we must act to save syria~~~~
and the sooner that Assad and the Baathists are ousted the better fro Syria
and Lebanon.
Sunni and Shia discussions are a British/US generated issue to divide and rule.
Iran shall see to it that they lose even here on this issue.
Anon 9:18 take a pill dude.
Syrian regime will fall hard onto the the Islamic regimes head and split it open !
Anon 11:05 PM
and the sooner that Assad and the Baathists are ousted the better fro Syria
and Lebanon.
On the contrary, they will be worse off if Assad and Baathists are ousted.
Anon 5:49 PM
Like that would ever happen. Keep on dreaming.
Anon 7:37 PM
Indeed. The majority of Syrians genuinely support Assad out of the fear that chaos will follow his ouster at the hands of criminals. Let's hope the Assad regime will prevail over the instigators.
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