Tags - Iraq
Arab Analyst:
Rasa - Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm newspaper, referred to the regional and international opposition to the referendum in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, warning that the region should be waiting for war after the Monday voting.
News ID: 432698 Publish Date : 2017/09/26
Rasa - The Iranian Supreme Leader's Chief of Staff, Mohammad Mohammadi Golpaigani, stressed that the independence referendum held in the Iraqi Kurdistan region on Monday was a Zionist plot to foment a new crisis after the end of ISIL era in Iraq.
News ID: 432696 Publish Date : 2017/09/26
Ayatollah al-Modarresi:
Rasa – Ayatollah al-Modarresi said, “Those who speak in the name of Imam Husayn, such as scholars, preachers, eulogists, writers, media people or anyone else, should follow the lifestyle of Imam Husayn and his precious words and Quran-inspired path.”
News ID: 432686 Publish Date : 2017/09/26
Ayatollah Faqihi:
Rasa – Ayatollah Mohsen Faqihi said, “Such disintegrating moves create serious problems for Iraq as well as the whole world in terms of geopolitical issues.”
News ID: 432685 Publish Date : 2017/09/26
Spokesperson for Iraq’s al-Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba:
Rasa – Sayyid Hashim al-Musawi said, “If the Sykes-Picot Agreement was allowed to be implemented in the past due to some neglect and lack of work, the Islamic Resistance movement will not allow it to be repeated.”
News ID: 432674 Publish Date : 2017/09/26
Head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq:
Rasa - Head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq noted that the Kurdish independence referendum is not in favor of anyone and will lead to instability in this country.
News ID: 432665 Publish Date : 2017/09/25
Rasa - Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region is holding an independence referendum in the face of strong objections from the central government in Baghdad and in defiance of urgent calls from the international community to scrap the vote.
News ID: 432663 Publish Date : 2017/09/25
Abadi:
Rasa - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says Baghdad will not allow the creation of an “ethnic government” in the Arab country as the Iraqi Kurdish region prepares for a highly controversial planned referendum on its independence on Monday.
News ID: 432660 Publish Date : 2017/09/25
Rasa - The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his last week visit of the Latin American countries and talks with the Argentina president supported establishment of an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq, and said that Tel Aviv backed the aspirations of the Iraqi Kurds for statehood.
News ID: 432655 Publish Date : 2017/09/24
Cmdr.:
Rasa - A high-ranking commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units says the pro-government fighters will not wait for the permission of Kurdish Peshmerga forces to liberate areas still under control of Daesh, including the town of Hawijah in the country’s oil-rich province of Kirkuk.
News ID: 432648 Publish Date : 2017/09/24
Ammar Hakim:
Rasa – Leader of Iraq’s National Alliance Ammar al-Hakim warned against the consequences of a unilateral plan by the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region to hold an independence referendum, saying that in case of the Arab country’s disintegration, all sides will be losers.
News ID: 432630 Publish Date : 2017/09/23
Rasa - On Friday, September 22, Iran unveiled a new ballistic missile during a military parade in Tehran that marks the first day of the Sacred Defense Week. The week commemorates the anniversary of the outbreak of Iraq’s imposed war on Iran in the 1980s.
News ID: 432606 Publish Date : 2017/09/22
Rasa - The UN Security Council has warned that a secession referendum planned to be held in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region next week is potentially “destabilizing” and threatens the ongoing war against Daesh terrorists.
News ID: 432594 Publish Date : 2017/09/22
Rasa - Iraqi armed forces have launched a massive offensive to liberate the town of Hawijah in the oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk, one of the last remaining Daesh bastions in the Arab country.
News ID: 432580 Publish Date : 2017/09/21
Syria in Last 24 Hours:
Rasa - The Syrian army continued its military operations against the Takfiri terrorists in the Eastern Hama province and took control of another key region there.
News ID: 432525 Publish Date : 2017/09/19
Rasa - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Kurds in Iraq to scrap plans to hold a referendum on independence later this month, arguing it would detract from the fight against the ISIL group.
News ID: 432511 Publish Date : 2017/09/18
Rasa - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has formally demanded suspension of the upcoming Kurdish independence referendum amid the central government’s strong opposition to the planned vote.
News ID: 432508 Publish Date : 2017/09/18
Rasa - Iraqi Vice President Nouri al-Maliki has denounced a planned Kurdish independence referendum in northern Iraq, warning that Baghdad would not tolerate the establishment of “a second Israel,” after the occupying regime became the only entity to support the so-called plebiscite.
News ID: 432499 Publish Date : 2017/09/18
Rasa - Iraqi Kurdish legislators of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region have approved a plan to hold a referendum on independence from Baghdad later this month.
News ID: 432495 Publish Date : 2017/09/17
Rasa - The United Nations Security Council is drawing up a resolution that will authorize UN investigators to help Iraq collect evidence to prosecute Daesh terrorists for committing war crimes in the Arab country.
News ID: 432487 Publish Date : 2017/09/17