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US responsible for political turmoil in Iraq: Activist

Wednesday, 27 April 2016 6:02 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 27 April 2016 6:00 AM ]

Iraqis, answering a call from senior cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, hold national flags and shout slogans during a demonstration asking for reforms on April 26, 2016 in the capital Baghdad. (AFP photo)

Press TV has conducted an interview with Sabah Jawad, director of Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation in London, and Nabil Mikhail, professor at George Washington University in Washington, to discuss the recent political turmoil in Iraq.

Jawad says the United States has created the current situation in Iraq by establishing a political system based on sectarian division in the country.

He also mentioned that the system is “incubator” of problems, adding that the Iraqi people think it is not capable of working at all and needs to be changed.

“People are fed up with lack of services, with the corruption which is reaching every corner of the state in Iraq across the political spectrum ... and people just had enough of that and they started demonstrating and demanding things that is reflected in parliament,” he stated.

Jawad further noted that the United States is utilizing the issue of “terrorism” to return to Iraq after they left in 2011.

He went on to say that Washington has helped create the terrorism that exists not only in Iraq but in Syria, in Yemen and in Lebanon as well.

“The Iraqi people do not seek the advice of the United States and they do not want more involvement of their ambassadors in Iraq or the government in Washington because the majority of the Iraqi people identify the problems in Iraq as being primarily a creation of the United States since the occupation,” he said.

The activist argued that the best thing the United States could do for the Iraqi people is to get out of the country.

Mikhail, for his part, said the United States should give Iraq “a good advice” and try to stop any attempt to suspend the work of the parliament.

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