Wednesday, May 2, 2012

An official source: the U.S. and Iran have put pressure on Iraqi leaders to get them to agree with Maliki

02/05/2012 11:40

Erbil, May 2 / May (Rn) - The Kurdish source high-ranking official in Baghdad, on Wednesday, a meeting of Iraqi political leaders in Erbil recently discussed the change of prime minister Nuri al-Maliki, noting that there were pressures U.S. and Iranian heavily on Iraqi leaders to get them to agree with al-Maliki.

barzani, talabani, allawi, sadr, nujaifi The Erbil has witnessed consultative meetings last week and this year was attended by the region's president Massoud Barzani, the head of the list of Iraq, Iyad Allawi and President Jalal Talabani and parliament speaker Osama Najafi and the cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and the leader of the Islamic Supreme Council, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, while the meeting underlined the need to implement all stated in the agreements of Arbil and political rejection of the constitutional vocabulary selection.

According to the source who did not want to be named to the sensitivity of the subject, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn), that "the meeting of Erbil discuss changing the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in case of failure of the opportunities offered by political leaders to resolve the current problems in the country or Maliki's refusal of the proposals within those opportunities ".

The source added that "the United States and Iran stated to the meeting of the leaders in Arbil, the need to strive to reach a common understanding and consensus on the current crisis in Iraq by any means."

And escalated rhetoric convulsive between the coalition and Iraqi rule of law on the files, arrests and the state administration, judiciary and the democratic course of action in the country.

Differences have been added recently the federal government with the Kurdistan Regional Government, especially the issue of management of oil wealth, which prompted the latter to stop the export of oil.
 
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