Iraqi political sources revealed the existence of moves within Parliament to remove the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, from his position, on the accusation of "violating the constitution." The President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Nechirvan Barzani, stressed that the President is under great pressure describing the crisis the country is going through as "deep."

In detail, political sources revealed that there are movements within parliament to isolate the Iraqi president led by political parties that have initiated a broad movement aimed at isolating Barham Salih through Parliament, after he was charged with violating the constitution, given that Article 76 includes that the role of the president is to assign the candidate of the most numerous bloc In Parliament, he is not entitled to reject this nomination.

The sources added, according to the Iraqi "Alsumaria" channel, that the next two days will witness a political movement in this matter between the various political forces, to discuss the isolation of the Iraqi president, and find a substitute for it politically agreed upon before the isolation, so that the scenario of Adel Abdul-Mahdi does not repeat from the point of the constitutional vacuum, hinting The current Minister of Finance in the government, Fouad Hussein, who was formerly the director of the office of the former Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani, is suitable for the position, and he has nominated him, but political consensus excluded him and granted him to Jaber Saleh.

For his part, President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Nechirvan Barzani, said in a statement yesterday that the Iraqi president is under great pressure, adding: “We are following with great concern and closely the conditions and developments of Iraq, which is suffering a deep crisis, and instability threatens to move towards an unknown future, and it is imperative to Everyone is dealing with the situation with understanding, in a national spirit, with responsibility, and away from political pressure to pass the stage, according to constitutional contexts.

He continued: «On the issue of assigning a candidate to head the next Iraqi government, it appears that the President of the Republic is under great pressure, other than constitutional mechanisms and foundations», stressing that any solution must be based on the constitution and in accordance with legal contexts, and stressed that he is to choose a national and non-controversial candidate for the presidency The government is acceptable to the influential forces. The legitimate demands of the demonstrators and the conditions and interests of the country should be taken into account.

In turn, the legal advisor to the Iraqi president, Amir al-Kinani, announced that the president’s failure to assign the candidate to the political blocs came for several reasons, including incompatible correspondence and official books that he reached regarding the bloc concerned with the nomination after the excess of the agreement between the building and reform blocs, a violation calculated by the political blocs Not the presidency.

Kanani stressed that «some political blocs want to make the tasks and powers of the president to be a postman to implement the content of Article 76 of the Constitution, and this is what is reflected in logic and sound mind.

On the other hand, the leadership of the Dhi Qar Governorate Police issued yesterday an order to form a high committee to investigate the killings of demonstrators, while the Independent High Commission for Human Rights in Iraq revealed the kidnapping of 68 protesters since the start of the protest demonstrations last October and until yesterday, a member of the Council said UNHCR, Anas al-Azzawi, in a press statement, 12 have been released, while the fate of 56 kidnappers remains unknown.

He explained that the assassination attempts among activists and demonstrators amounted to 33 cases, distributed by 15 murders, 13 injuries, and five failed attempts.

Production stopped in the Nasiriyah oil field in southern Iraq, after demonstrators against the government cut off access to it, and this is the first time that production has stopped in an oil field in Iraq since the start of unprecedented anti-government demonstrations.

And the production of the field of Nasiriyah reaches 100 thousand barrels per day, and production stopped in the morning when demonstrators cut off the roads leading to the oil field demanding jobs, according to police sources.

In addition, German News Agency (dpa) quoted Iraqi sources as saying that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived yesterday at Ain al-Asad air base in the Al-Baghdadi district of Anbar Province, while the international coalition against ISIS announced that The United States led the missile attack that targeted a military base in Kirkuk that includes coalition forces, killing an American civilian contractor and wounding several American soldiers and Iraqi service members.

At least 30 missiles hit the base, including an ammunition depot, which caused the explosions, while four other missiles were found in its tubes inside a truck at the point from which the missiles were fired, an informed US official told AFP.

The official described the attack as the largest of a series of missile strikes that have affected US interests in Iraq since the end of last October, and the source said that the threat of pro-Iranian factions in Iraq to American soldiers has become greater than the threat posed by ISIS.

The Ain al-Assad base in the western Anbar province was attacked on December 3 by five missiles, four days after a visit by US Vice President Mike Pence to his country's forces there, and Qayyarah Air Force Base in northern Iraq was hit by more than 10 rockets in November, in an attack He was among the largest in the past months against a region where American forces are present.

A security source in Anbar said yesterday that the American forces took unprecedented measures against the backdrop of a plan to target the Ain al-Asad air base, explaining that planes flew over the base and formed an air umbrella on the base in anticipation of any emergency, in addition to monitoring any movement aimed at attacking the base.

- Protesters stop

Production in a field

Nasiriyah oil

Southern Iraq.

- 30

A missile struck

Military base

In Kirkuk.

Adviser to the Iraqi President:

“Some political blocs want to make tasks

And the powers of the president to be a postman.