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Iraq’s Prime Minister-designate Haider Al-Abadi speaks during a news conference in Baghdad on August 25, 2014. (Reuters/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud)
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In this Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013 photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, then chief of the Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Qassem Suleimani, attends a meeting of the commanders of the Revolutionary Guard with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)
Opinion: Iran’s foreign policy is shifting
At the same time it was revealed that Iran had decided to keep Gen. Qassem Suleimani away from the Iraqi file and instead assign to him the Syrian one, the president of Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Massoud Barzani, revealed that Tehran had provided the Kurdish forces with...Caption:
A file picture taken on February 5, 2011 shows outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki listening to a question during an interview in Baghdad, Iraq. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
Maliki claims to have “Plan B” if government talks fail
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s outgoing Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki said on Wednesday he was prepared to form a new government from among Iraq’s Shi’ite parties if ongoing talks on the shape of the new government fail. Speaking in his weekly national address,...Caption:
Iraq’s prime minister of eight years, Nuri Al-Maliki, announces he is relinquishing his post to Haider Al-Abadi (2nd L) in Baghdad on August 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Iraqi Government)
Opinion: Maliki’s Bad Advice
Nuri Al-Maliki, who had described the appointment of Haider Al-Abadi as Iraq’s prime minister-designate as a “conspiracy,” is today offering advice on how to save the country from a crisis that he created. Maliki, the prime minister who was pulled out like a bad...Caption:
An Iraqi man holds up a portrait of Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani during a demonstration in the central Shiite Muslim shrine city of Najaf on June 14, 2014. (AFP/Haider Hamdani)