US pressure policy on Iraq to blackmail Al-Abadi

From the US perspective, Iraq or regional countries’ disintegration is an ideal long-term hidden plan. Given the current conditions, Washington may not have the required capacity to move toward the idea of disintegration of Iraq and the regional countries. However, the US and its followers’ current policies towards Iraq raise the possibility that it seeks to implement the Arab country’s disintegration initiative in a shorter time frame and with more seriousness.

Some Iraqi Kurdish parties are helping the US to execute its ideal plan. For an instance, Massoud Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which is now facing domestic challenges, is attempting to help this come true by increasing sensitivity over the issue of Kurdistan region independence and provoking politicians and factions, including Osama Abdul Aziz al-Nujaifi and the deposed Iraqi Ba'ath regime, which enjoy the fund and support of Saudi Arabia and back Turkish policies. In fact, Washington is trying to make Iraq’s atmosphere more vulnerable by this plan.  

Washington, by raising such pro-secession approaches, is seeking to mount its psychological pressure on the government of al-Abadi in an attempt to blackmail it and take its desired political advantage. Terrorism project was simply launched in Iraq with the aim of making the central government face with a serious challenge and offering more share to the region’s reactionary states as well as figures linked to the West and its polices.
 
Now that the terrorist current is placed in a tough situation and National Iraqi Alliance, including the army and revolutionary forces are preparing to liberate more areas from the control of the Daesh (ISIL) terrorists, the US is banging the drum for seceding a Sunni region from Iraq. There are some reports that a representative office for Sunni groups has been set up in the US in a bid to improve the minority group’s coordination with American officials. The move will further increase divergence between various parties in the war-torn country.


By Hadi Mohammadi, a Middle East Affairs expert in Tehran