U.S. report: Iraq is struggling to avoid disintegration amid growing violence and political paralysis
U.S. report: Iraq is struggling to avoid disintegration amid growing violence and political paralysis
Posted 16/04/2014 09:01 AM
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Newspaper, “Christian Science Monitor” that Iraq is facing “the biggest test” as a state and the people, explaining that with “the approach of the first elections in the country since the departure of U.S. forces four years ago, Iraq is struggling to avoid disintegration amid growing violence and political paralysis.”
The paper quotes Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari as saying that “Iraq since it was established was a victim of geography and history,” and according to this portal Zebari, the newspaper reported in a report yesterday that “Iraq now faces a moment of noisy and binding in geography and history, after 11 years of invasion America’s toppled Saddam Hussein, which is the country of the Arab state dominant to something completely different, the question revolves around whether the internal divisions plaguing the country could lead to the disintegration at the end of the day. ”
and follow American newspaper: “In all parts of the the country, show splits new in the political and social landscape, and accommodate the differences that interacted for decades under the diversity doctrinal in Iraq, in Nineveh province, wants the governor and a situation like the autonomy that has been granted to the Kurds. Kurds themselves who are separated from the control of the central government set up links with Iran and their enemy the previous Turkey. ”
and added “in Anbar province in the west, turned Sunni protests against marginalization and mistreatment to violence, making the movement, which began as a protest Salma more extreme, and in Fallujah, which saw the worst fighting the U.S., the war boil again, while not still some Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad closed mainly in some days under the restriction of the security forces of attempts to get in and out of them. ”
explains “Although the majority of Iraqis are hoping to keep their coherent, others are concerned that powers the phenomenon of escalating violence and fighting religious can that lead to the Balkanization of the country, “but warns that” the disintegration of Iraq will have big implications for the Middle East and beyond. It would re-adjust the balance of power and the start of a larger struggle for control of the components of the weakest in Iraq and the oil fields, huge in it. ”
concludes the paper that “In spite of the bleak situation, but Iraq has not yet become like Yugoslavia, elections are to be held on 30 current will be an important test of the extent of the cohesion of the country. ”
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