"The conspiracy against Nuri al-Maliki is actually a war plotted outside the country and it should be considered as the result of the failure of the conspiracies staged by the Persian Gulf Arab regimes, including Qatar and Saudi Arabia against Baghdad," Iraq’s National Coalition representative at the parliament Abdossalam Maliki told FNA on Saturday.
He blasted certain Iraqi MPs for pursuing the aspirations of the President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Massoud Barzani, against the Maliki government, and said Barzani is trying to impose his will on the other political groups due to his regional and international clout and compliance with his demands and stances will have direly negative outcomes.
The Iraqi lawmaker underlined his opposition to Barzani’s stances, and cautioned that Barzani and his foreign collaborators have hatched a plot to materialize the goals pursued by the US and other enemies, including federalization of Iraq.
Earlier, a senior member of Iraq’s State of Law Coalition had also revealed that certain Arab countries have hatched plots to increase insecurities in Iraq, and said they are seeking to push the government of Nuri al-Maliki into a failure.
"Certain Arab countries want to see the failure and overthrow of the current Iraqi government," Ali Allaq told FNA in 2011.
He referred to the financial and other direct supports provided by certain Arab countries to terrorist groups in his country, and said they also support a number of internal political streams to defeat the Maliki government.
But in a clear sign of support for the Maliki government, a senior member of the Kurdistan Coalition in the Iraqi parliament announced late last month that Kurdish MPs will never take back their vote of confidence to al-Maliki’s cabinet and will continue supporting it.
"The Kurdistan Coalition will not give a vote of no-confidence to Mr. Nuri al-Maliki’s cabinet," Mahma Khalil told FNA at the time.
He underlined the Kurdistan Coalition’s support for the Maliki cabinet, but meantime said that the prime minister should try to settle its differences with the Kurdistan region and remain committed to the Erbil agreement.
In relevant remarks at the time, a senior Iraqi legislator had also downplayed effectiveness of the attempts made by certain parliamentary factions to undermine confidence in the country’s incumbent government, and said most Iraqi lawmakers support the cabinet of al-Maliki.
"The efforts made by the al-Iraqiya list and certain other Iraqi parliamentary fractions to take a vote of no-confidence in the current government are in vain," Ali al-Shalat told FNA.
