Hakim Advises Turkey to Change Course of Action on Iraq

Head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Ammar al-Hakim in a meeting with Turkish Ambassador to Baghdad Yunus Demirer called on the regional states to play a positive role in stabilizing the situation in Iraq.

During the meeting, Hakim also stressed the importance of stabilized relations between Iraq and Turkey.

Demirer, for his part, underscored the religious figures’ important role and guidelines for the establishment of stability and tranquility in Iraq.

His remarks came after Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed the policies of the Iraqi government for the current unrests in Iraq.

Meantime, a prominent Iraqi strategy analyst warned on Monday that Qatar, Turkey and Israel are exercising a plot to disintegrate Iraq.

“Qatar, Turkey and Israel are spearheading and leading a plot to disintegrate Iraq,” Ahmad al-Sharifi told FNA.

He said that targeting the political trend in Iraq is actually a part of the broader plot against the region which is known as the Greater Middle-East plan and aimed to pressure the countries which are in the resistance front against Israel and the US.

Sharifi said that the recent rallies in different cities of Iraq are also a part of the plot to pressure the Iraqi government to give up its independent and progressive political performance.

His remarks came after reports from Iraq said earlier this month that several regional states, including Qatar, have paid $100 to each participant in protest rallies in al-Anbar province in support of Iraqi Finance Minister Rafia al-Issawi, whose bodyguards have been arrested on terrorism charges last month.

Iraq’s al-Nakhil news agency quoted a security official as saying that after the arrest of Issawi’s bodyguards, several groups affiliated to the regional states, specially Qatar, paid huge sums to their sympathizers in Anbar, Salaheddin and Nineveh provinces to stage rallies against the Iraqi government.

Ouraq al-Khalij newspaper also informed that Doha is staunchly supporting Issawi for taking the leadership of Sunni protestors in Iraq.

The paper said Qatari officials had contacted a large number of their agents and hirelings in Iraq in recent days to coordinate the protests, adding that even the mottoes chanted against Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki government have been dictated by Doha.