TNT: Tishwash: Oil expert: Corruption prevented Iraq from reaching 7 million barrels per day
The oil expert, Hamza Al-Jawahiri, ruled out that Iraq’s production would reach 8 million barrels per day during the next few years.
On June 19, 2022, Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail confirmed that oil production will reach 8 million barrels per day during 2027.
Al-Jawahiri said that it is difficult for Iraq’s production to reach 8 million barrels per day, due to the failure to implement the sea water project, which transports water from the sea into the fields.
He added that the implementation of this project needs 3 years with hard work, in addition to digging wells and building an electricity system.
He stressed that corruption and some parties were prevented from raising Iraq’s oil production to 7 million barrels per day now, through their interventions in stopping some projects, adding that Exxon Mobil presented an offer in 2011 to implement the sea water project, but it was stopped by the hand of corruption.
He pointed out that Iraq’s oil production is now supposed to reach 7 million barrels per day, but today it reaches 4.6 million barrels link
Tishwash: The Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani has announced the government will allocate 736.7 billion dinars for the years 2022 and 2023 in cash and investments.
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani surveys a residential project at the third Invest Expo in Erbil, August 16, 2022. (Photo: KRG)
The Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani has announced the government will allocate 736.7 billion dinars for the years 2022 and 2023 in cash and investments for projects across various sectors and ministries.
The allocation is part of reform efforts by the Kurdistan Regional Government’s ninth cabinet to improve the delivery of public services and foster economic development in the Kurdistan Region, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Media and Information Office said in a statement.
“In the past three years, the Cabinet has authorized the implementation of 206 investment projects with a total budget of $11,629,355,000 in different areas of the Kurdistan Region. Crucially, of those 206 projects, 202 are conducted by local investors,” the KRG said. link
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Tishwash: Green Friday preacher: Going out against corruption is not going out of the state
The Friday prayer sermon in the Green Zone, Muhannad Al-Moussawi, affirmed that the people are the source of the authorities, and going out against corruption is not a violation of the state, indicating that the fake media has become mouthpieces for corruption.
Al-Moussawi said during Friday prayers in front of the parliament building: The media misinformation is practiced against the reform movements, noting that the people have been stung by corruption and failed administrations.
Al-Moussawi added that the people are prioritized over all considerations, and through them constitutions are written, which is the main component of the state, stressing that the will of the people is stronger than tyrants.
He continued: We do not establish political dialogues for them link
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Tishwash: The Sadrist preacher for the three presidencies and parties: Your dialogues are for your interests and staying in power
Muhannad al-Moussawi, a preacher and imam of the Green Zone of the Sadrist movement, said that the dialogues sponsored by the three presidencies with political forces and parties to get out of the current crisis in the country are aimed at achieving “partisan interests and staying in power.”
Al-Moussawi said in the Friday prayer sermon in front of crowds of protesters from the supporters of the Sadrist movement, that “it is not hidden from everyone that the people are the basic component of the state and it is prior to all considerations, and it is the capital of the government and states, and through and for which constitutions are written, laws are legislated, and decisions are issued in order to In the end, it is in his interest, comfort and security.”
He stressed that “the will of the people is stronger than tyrants, and the people remain the ones who decide their fate by themselves, no matter how far the tyrants go,” adding that “destiny responds to the people as long as the people are free and ignorant of grievance like you, revolutionaries and free people,” addressing the protest movement’s supporters.
Al-Moussawi went on to say, “The most beautiful text in our constitution is that the people are the source of authority. The people’s revolt against corruption and the corrupt is not against the state (…) and when there are parties that do not respect the people, they have no right in this country.”
He explained that “the meaning of the people is the source of the authorities. They are the subject of respect and appreciation, but on the condition that they respect the people, and the three authorities could not stand on their feet without the sacrifices of the people, and all the authorities could not continue if the sacrifices of the Imam’s army, the companies, the crowd and the Tishreen revolutionaries.”
The preacher of the Sadrists stated that what the three authorities enjoy, “is a product of the suffering of the people, and that the authorities did not feel hope and did not lose dear ones for the sake of this country.”
Al-Moussawi addressed the three presidencies and leaders of the forces and political parties, saying: The political dialogues are for your political and partisan interests, and for your staying in power, stressing that “these dialogues have no value to us and we do not value them.”
The presidencies met with the leaders of the Iraqi national political forces at the invitation of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, on Wednesday; To discuss political developments in the country, in the presence of the representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq.
The meeting led to a number of points agreed upon by the attendees, as follows:
1- The conferees expressed their commitment to the national constants, and to finding a solution to all crises through dialogue and adopting a spirit of brotherhood and synergy; In order to preserve the unity of Iraq, the security and stability of its people, the continuity of the constitutional democratic system to which everyone appeals, and the emphasis on giving priority to the supreme national interests, and showing a spirit of solidarity among the people of the one nation; to address the current political crisis.
2- The conferees indicated that resorting to the polls once again through early elections is not an exceptional event in the history of democratic experiences when political crises reach dead ends, and that national political forces resort to constitutional tracks in elections.
3- The conferees called on the brothers in the Sadrist movement to engage in the national dialogue, to put in place mechanisms for a comprehensive solution to serve the aspirations of the Iraqi people and achieve their goals.
4- The participants agreed on the continuation of the national dialogue; In order to develop a legal and constitutional road map to address the current crisis.
5- The conferees called for stopping all forms of field, media, or political escalation, stressing the need to protect state institutions and return to calm discussions away from provocations and provocations that would provoke strife. They appealed to the media and elites to support the path of national dialogue and social peace, to serve the interests of our people.
Yesterday, Thursday, Saleh Muhammad al-Iraqi, the so-called “minister of the leader” who is close to the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, sharply criticized the dialogue sponsored by Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi for the three presidencies with the leaders of the political blocs to get out of the current crisis in the country. Link
