TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Mohsen Hakim, political advisor to the head of the United Iraqi Alliance, viewed his country's new conditions and the growing power of Iraqi forces as the main cause of the British troops' withdrawal from the city of Basra.
Speaking to FNA on Saturday, the political advisor to Abdul Aziz al-Hakim said although Britain's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown has decided to withdraw troops from Iraq as his main strategy, "it should also be remembered that the growing power of the Iraqi troops has made Basra needless of the foreign troops."
Elsewhere, he said that the Iraqi government is still continuing talks with the al-Araqieh and al-Tawafoq fronts in a bid to convince them to cooperate with Nuri al-Maliki and resend their representatives to the cabinet meetings.
"The government is still discussing the issue with them, but they have stood up firm on their previous stances and the conditions have not changed," Hakim continued.
He further viewed Nuri al-Maliki's administration as a strong and legal government supported by huge forces of the Iraqi nation, and said that formation of the four-member group secured survival of the Iraqi government.
Asked about the health conditions of the head of the United Iraqi Alliance who is currently in Tehran for his medical treatments, he said, "He is feeling much better, but his medical treatments continue."
He said that Abdul Aziz al-Hakim will leave Tehran only when he is through with his current treatment.
2 comments:
It looks like Brown knows how to drink Kool-aid, too.
Now someone should try reading or watching the BBC News to get the reason why PM Brown pulled the troops out of Iraq. Now as from the lips of PM Brown he said it was his Generals who said there was nothing else they could do for Iraq.
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