Experts’ emphasis on the improveme of Baghdad-Tehran relations after the Iraqi elections – Mehr News agency RCO News Agency
According to the Mehr news agency, citing the information office of the National Wisdom Moveme of Iraq, the first meeting of the series of specialized meetings of the office of this moveme in Iran with the approach of examining the strategic relations between Iran and Iraq, with the topic of “Analysis of the Iraqi elections and its effect on the relations with Iran” was held at Andishehvarzan House.
In this meeting, Seyyed Mohsen Hakim, Vice-Chairman of Iraq’s National Wisdom Moveme, Ebrahim Motaghi, a faculty member and full professor of Tehran University, Hassan Khodavardi, a faculty member and associate professor of iernational relations at the Majlis Research Ceer, Ali Akbar Asadi, a faculty member, Seyyed Abbas Mousavi, Deputy Preside of the Preside’s Office and former Iranian ambassador to Azerbaijan, and Reza Jalali, an associate professor of iernational relations and political analyst, were prese in this meeting.
At the beginning of the meeting, Ali Akbar Asadi, referring to the regional conditions, described the Iraqi parliameary elections as safe, stable and with new achievemes. He considered the increase in participation to be one of the most importa messages of this election and called the rapid formation of the majority faction by the coordination framework a sign of the political unity of the Shiites. Esadi emphasized that pre-election concerns have decreased with the curre results.
In his speech, Hassan Khadvardi considered the rece elections as a sign of Iraqi society’s moveme towards nation-state building and said: “Iraq is moving in the direction of reducing dependence on foreign powers and strengthening nationalist tendencies.” He emphasized that a stable Iraq can provide the ierests of regional and extra-regional actors.
Seyyed Abbas Mousavi, Deputy of Ceremonies of the Office of the Preside and former Ambassador of Iran to the Republic of Azerbaijan, also considered Iraq’s democratic experience as an importa achieveme in the region, and referring to the Zionist regime’s claims about the “only democracy in the region”, he said: Iraq has stabilized today after years of dictatorship and the fight against terrorism, and its rece elections, based on iernational indicators, indicate the stabilization of democracy in this coury.
He also poied to Iran’s history of holding elections in the past 46 years and said: Iran and Iraq, unlike many couries in the region, have been able to prese a real picture of democracy in practice and break the “myth of Israeli democracy”.
Reza Jalali also described Iraq as a coury on an “upward positive slope” and praised the 25% share of women in the new parliame. He also poied to the role of Hashd Shaabi and said: “Israel, with the support of America, seeks to weaken the resistance forces.” Jalali considered the presence of figures such as the Hakim family to be “hopeful” and effective for the Iraqi Shia moveme.
In the next part of the meeting, Ibrahim Motaghi spoke and focused his analysis on “Iraq’s natural dependence on the global power equation.” He emphasized that the behavior of Iraqi leaders is inevitably affected by regional and iernational developmes and said: “Politics is momeary and changing the behavior of political forces is a natural thing.”
Referring to Western investmes in Iraq, Motaghi assessed the future orieation of the Baghdad governme as “leaning towards the West” and added: “Iraq will prese a new definition of resistance forces.” Referring to the role of Martyr Soleimani in confroing ISIS, he emphasized that now is the time for the Iraqi resistance to “stand on its own feet.”
Further, Seyyed Mohsen Hakim, referring to the historical background and the irreplaceable role of the supreme religious authority and all members of the Iraqi nation, especially the Shiites of this coury, in the fight against terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS, considered the curre governme to be the governme of all Iraqis ceered on the coordination framework of the Shiite forces (Attar Tansighi), which has been one of the most successful governmes in rece years.
Referring to the coordination framework governme’s performance, Hakim emphasized that the developme indicators in this governme have “significaly” improved; An issue that can be clearly seen in the evaluation of iernational institutions such as the Iernational Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
He also described the security situation in Iraq as “stable and favorable” and said that there is no serious threat to Iraq’s national security. Iraqi security agencies have been able to effectively impleme valid security standards; The factor that caused the crime statistics to be reduced to a minimum in the last two years and 103 billion dollars of foreign investme eered Iraq.
The vice-chairman of Iraq’s national wisdom stream also poied to the new mechanism for selecting the prime minister and the formation of two specialized committees, and said that certain indicators have been developed to determine the future prime minister.
It should be noted that the first specialized meeting of the Office of National Wisdom Flow in Iran ended by summarizing the topics preseed and emphasizing the necessity of coinuing these discussions to strengthen cooperation between Tehran and Baghdad.
