The Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, one of the main Shiite parties in Iraq, led by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, yesterday announced its new name. With the organization dropped the word «revolution» of the name to become «the Iraqi Islamic Supreme Council», it represented the reference b Najaf, Ayatollah Ali Sistani, and federal and «uprooting the Baath» disbanding the militias. A statement issued by the Council, at the conclusion of the Ninth Congress of the party, which was held over two days in Baghdad, attended by Council members from all around Iraq, which is the first of its kind meeting of the Council in Iraq. The members of the newly elected Shura Council decided to renew the election Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, Chairman (Shura) and Chairman of the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq.
The statement, which was read Ridha Jawad Taqi, a leading figure in the Conference Board arrived at a number of recommendations, including the adoption of an al-Sistani, also called for «pursuit of the government successful players mature harmony can accomplish the tasks entrusted to them .
And support for the national unity government, headed by Nouri Al-Maliki .The statement called for the continued imposition of the ban on the Baath Party, and the activation of the Anti-Terrorism Act and support the security plan in Baghdad and the draft national reconciliation disbanding the militias, and the activation of the project provinces, with an emphasis on Iraq's unity and access to the «constitutional and practical solution to resolve the issue of border provinces and the disputed areas, including Kirkuk. with emphasis on the rights of all the components of the Iraqi people in the disputed areas. The statement called for strengthening national unity and prevent any «rupture or split or divided at the regional and national». The government values the experience of the Kurdistan and counting proof of the success of the democratic system and the FBI, also praised the movement of reconstruction and development in the province.
Observers noted in the new program of the party, indicators of the Council's desire flute himself from Iran, but the first two allay concerns about federalism, and specifically call for establishing the southern region, which fears among Iraqi and Arab and western converted into an arena of Iranian influence, and the second is to meet the Sadri trend, he claims that he enjoyed his supporters b «a wide popularity» in the Shiite community, and that it was founded in Iraq, and it has suffered from the former Iraqi regime, unlike a Supreme Council, who have lived in exile, but that forgiveness Sa'idi Bloc MP from the chest, tipped told «Middle East», The changes are «internal affair» no relation to electrically Sadri, said «must they (the Board) noted, the current situation of Iraq. Her «it is not important that these decisions do Sadri trend or not ...
The question is : will the interest of the Iraqi people? Told «Middle East» confirmed Taqi «that changes in the concepts and policy Supreme Council in Iraq were totally different from those adopted in Iran. Taki added that «these variables on the concepts of the party and party leaders found very necessary at the present time, we are realists, and if we see that fact or circumstance Iraqi requires us to make changes even if the radical, we will, without hesitation, even if it leads to change some of what we espoused policies or concepts us as a special ».
The main changes in the party, after the last Congress MP said the Iraqi, «that there is a set of new variables began to change the name of the party, hence structural change, we found they needed to expand in line with the weight of the party in the Iraqi arena, It was decided to form a new commissions and new offices and expanding the base of participation, which has become the number of members of the Council, namely members of the Assembly, twice what it was previously. It also doubled the number of its leaders, and also members of the Bureau of the Central Shura ».
Taki said that the changes also included political discourse, through the use of new concepts that were not within the approved concepts, including the use and application «concepts of democracy, freedom and state of law and constitutional, and this indicates a response to the change, according to the requirements of the current phase». The Taki that «there is a genuine desire since we entered Iraq after the fall of the former regime for a conference expanded and these adjustments, but the circumstances surrounding the war on Iraq prevented, and now to pour more necessary than ever, to keep abreast of developments on the political arena and constitutional Iraqi».
For her part, Amal said detector cover, former deputy in Parliament from the United Iraqi Alliance, the president presented the Center for Strategic Studies, said that the Board reconsider their positions «and reassess the previous stage passed». When asked about the reasons for those changes, which included the deletion of the word «revolution», which matches lifted the Iranian regime upon his arrival to power of slogans about «Islamic revolution», said that the Supreme Council had acquired by virtue of that nature Iranian founded in Iran, and started a family there, and that wise, by spearheading the long lived in Iran, but she added, «They (Hakim's family) Iraqis. And whether this step is aimed at steering away from Iran, said Amal Kashif cover «certainly they (the Supreme Council) felt now that the Iraq-Iran, and that things in Iraq are not, as in Iran».