Calls for peace with Israel backfire following a conference in Iraq as the country's government issued arrest warrants for 5 participants, and powerful groups backed by Iran also condemned the meeting.
beginning in August 2020, openly discussing the possibility of normalizing relations with the Jewish state would have been unthinkable in Iraq. But last week, speakers at a conference attended by hundreds in the country's Kurdish region did just that.
Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump, and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan participate in the signing of the Abraham Accords in Washington on Sept. 15, 2020.has condemned the conference and has issued arrest warrants for two of the main speakers and at least three other participants, including al-Ta'i, who has also been dismissed from her job at the culture ministry.
According to Harith Hasan, a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, the conference has ended up being counterproductive to the cause of normalization. Even if there was an appetite for normalization, Fanar Haddad, a former adviser on foreign relations to, said the country's weak centralized power and Iranian influence meant recognition of Israel was not currently something that could be seriously considered.
"I read the statement that was written for me without knowing its content," he said."I denounce the content of the final statement and what was stated in it." Steve Severinghaus, senior communications director for the Journal, said the paper had worked through an intermediary and had been told that al-Hardan had signed off on the edited version.
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