Will Iraq become the future land of Palestinians and Afghans?
The new plan follows the announcement of five Arab and Gulf states temporarily accepting Afghan refugees, and Iraqi media say Emirati and Qatari officials on the sidelines of the recent Baghdad summit on August 28. They raised with the Iraqi government.
Shafaq News, a news site close to the Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party, said that at the request of the Americans, the two sheikhdoms of the UAE and Qatar proposed the plan to the Iraqi side on the sidelines of the recent Baghdad summit.
According to the Qatari-Emirati proposal, in the first phase of the project, 10,000 Afghan refugees will be resettled in Anbar province in western Iraq, followed by the deployment of subsequent Afghan groups, which will receive special benefits from Iraq, including payment. Urgent $ 1 billion in cash to Baghdad.
Other unconfirmed reports put the total number of Afghan nationals to be resettled in Iraq at 100,000.
The plan comes with some special concessions for Iraq, which in addition to paying $ 1 billion in cash at the start of the plan, pave the way for the US government to repay interest-free loans from the World Bank to Baghdad.
The Iraqi government has so far remained silent in the face of these reports and allegations, with some observers dismissing the original information as unrealistic and calling it impossible for Afghans to settle in Iraq due to cultural and linguistic differences between them and Afghans.
An Iraqi journalist wrote in a memo on Wednesday that the United States was seeking alternative land for Afghan refugees who had worked with the US military in Afghanistan for the past 20 years and had returned to power after the Taliban took power. They have abandoned themselves for fear of the Taliban retaliating.
Hussam al-Hajj Hassan read the original report on the Afghan settlement in Iraq as correct and said that the US military was contracting with some Iraqi contractors to build four-person housing units at the Ain al-Assad military base in western Anbar. To be able to resettle Afghan nationals and their families there.
In response to those who are skeptical about the deployment of Afghans in Iraq, he said that the United States knows that if the Iraqi government insists on anything now, the Iraqi government will comply.
Al-Haj Hassan cited the deployment of ISIS families in the Syrian Al-Hul camp inside Iraq as an example, adding that at the insistence of the United States, the Iraqi government (in early June 1400) agreed to relocate them inside Iraq.
Al-Anbar province had previously been proposed as an alternative land for the Palestinians, and has been cited as one of the reasons for the creation of a Sunni climate in Iraq, centered in Anbar, to make the region the future land of the Palestinians.
So far, five Arab countries and the Persian Gulf, including Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, have agreed to temporarily resettle US-Afghan refugees in Afghanistan.
According to these countries, Qatar, as an important station for Afghan refugees, has agreed to temporarily accept 8,000 Afghan refugees, the UAE and Kuwait have each agreed to accept 5,000 and Jordan 2,500 Afghan refugees, and Bahrain has announced that it is ready for temporary admission without giving a specific figure. Afghan refugees.
Iraq has not yet made an official statement on the matter, but an adviser to the governor of Anbar, who described himself as the official spokesman for the Anbar tribes, has strongly opposed the settlement of Afghans in Iraq.
Sufyan al-Ithawi said in a press statement that the Afghan settlement has been strongly opposed by the people of the province.
On the other hand, some Iraqi news sources quoted some political figures as saying that the Iraqi government might allow Afghan women and children to settle near refugee camps in northern Iraq in terms of humanitarian issues.
Meanwhile, some political figures in Anbar province have described the Afghan settlement next to the US-backed Ain al-Assad military base as a time bomb in Iraq.
During a recent visit to Kuwait in late August, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said he had discussed the issue of temporary accommodation for Afghan refugees without elaborating.
Following the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul in mid-August, people began fleeing and migrating en masse from Afghanistan.
Afghan families tried to flee their country by boarding US transport planes.
Washington has claimed that since mid-August, it has been able to evacuate some 58,700 Afghanis and temporarily relocate them to various countries.
European countries have strongly opposed the admission of Afghans to their territories, and the European Union has announced the allocation of € 300 million to review the resettlement of 30,000 Afghan refugees.
The United States and European countries had hoped that Turkey would agree to accept some Afghan refugees, but so far Ankara has opposed the move, and Iraq is said to be one of the US and EU target areas for Afghan refugees.
