POLITICIAN: AMERICA IS PUTTING PRESSURE ON IRAQ TO KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE
Political researcher Qasim Al-Tamimi said on Friday that America is exerting pressure on Iraq in ruling files that are considered the lifeblood of the people, in order to kill two birds with one stone.
Al-Tamimi told Al-Maalouma, “The American side tightened its sanctions on the Islamic Republic to achieve the interests of the Zionist entity, and these sanctions also included Iraq, but indirectly.”
He added, “The American sanctions were behind preventing Iraq from obtaining gas imported from Iran, and therefore these are sanctions that affect the Iraqi people, since electricity is considered the lifeblood of Iraqis in light of the stifling crisis that Iraq has been suffering from for the past years without effective solutions.”
He explained that “what America is doing in imposing sanctions aims to incite people against governments, especially after Iraq announced its position on the Zionist crimes and expressed its rejection of what the occupier is doing, and participated through the resistance in striking the enemy. Therefore, America is imposing sanctions to kill two birds with one stone, meaning that it seeks to impose more sanctions on Iran and harm the Iraqi people.
(I do not believe this notion the America is intentionally harming the Iraqi people or want to harm them. Instead, they are after Iran and need to break that country somehow. Iraq is caught in the middle, however I will say that they have been warned now for over decades to get their own electricity and gas. How many more exemptions do they want? How long will these exemptions go on? Finally, a US president putting his foot down and forcing them to do something. You know Iraq and how slow they can be.)
