Al-Zubaidi was referring to the issue of corona vaccines, which, according to the official announcement of the first shipment, entered Iraq on March 2, and the Iraqi Ministry of Health explained China had donated 50,000 vaccines to Iraq.
Before al-Zubaidi, Nebras al-Kadhimi, an Iraqi writer and researcher, first uncovered the issue. In a tweet on February 18, 2021, he announced that thousands of vaccines had been sent to Ammar al-Hakim, the leader of the Al-Hikma movement.
The Iraqi writer and researcher said: “Tahnoon bin Zayed, the UAE national security adviser, gave 10,000 doses of Chinese vaccine to Ammar al-Hakim and that four doctors, including a special doctor for Al-Kadhimi, left for the UAE to learn how to store and use the vaccines. ».
“These vaccines are given outside the State Department, and this shows the logistical structure of the health care system for this range of vaccines,” he said. “Iraqi society is intended to deprive the general public.”
In addition, the UAE sent 2,000 doses of corona vaccine to the family of Masrour Barzani, the head of the Kurdistan Regional Government, and 1,000 doses of the vaccine to the Talabani family.
Influence on popular mobilization
Meanwhile, some Iraqi sources claim that the UAE has succeeded in infiltrating some of the leaders of Al-Hashd al-Shabi through a Sunni figure who holds a very important position in al-Kadhimi’s government. Refusing to reveal his identity, he played the role of a link between the two sides.
The sources also claimed that the figure was close to Tehran and Abu Dhabi at the same time, adding: “It was the Iranians who realized her role and gave her name to the security and intelligence services.”
Interference in parliamentary elections
In the case of the UAE’s interference in Iraq’s internal affairs, Salim al-Jubouri, the former speaker of the Iraqi parliament, in an interview in May 2019, while exposing the role of the UAE in playing with the election results and marginalizing him, who even won a seat in the 2018 parliamentary elections. “At first, everything showed that I had won the election, I even contacted the constituencies that insisted I had won the election,” he said.
Al-Jubouri added: “Khamis al-Khanjar, an Iraqi politician close to the UAE, told him two weeks before the election that there was a special program for the Iraqi parliamentary elections in the UAE because there are special voting servers in Dubai,” al-Jubouri added. “The election results will be very surprising for him,” he stressed.
Iraq security case in the hands of the UAE
On the other hand, “Kazem al-Sayadi”, a member of the Iraqi parliament, stated that the UAE’s involvement in Iraq is not a new issue to be addressed: “Plans in Washington and Tel Aviv, the Iraqi security case were left to the Emirati, the Yemeni security case to the Saudis, and the Syrian security case to the Qataris.”
“According to this plan, the mission of each of the countries of the UAE and Qatar and Saudi Arabia in the three countries of Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, financing and arming Takfiri terrorist groups, forming death groups, destroying infrastructure,” he explains. “The financial, economic, health and medical care of these countries was determined, and in the case of Iraq, the focus of these activities was on Baghdad and the southern Shiite provinces.”
Behind some developments in Iraq;
How did the UAE security plan for Baghdad, “Al-Kadhimi” open the way for the UAE?
There are credible information and documents that show that the United Arab Emirates intervened in Iraq during the presidency of Mustafa al-Kadhimi.
Allegations leveled by some Iraqi political parties against the UAE for interfering in the country’s internal affairs continue, with lawmakers and former Iraqi officials revealing that the UAE’s role has increased dramatically, especially during the presidency of Mustafa al-Kadhimi.
Perhaps most recently, such allegations relate to the Iraqi intelligence agency’s relocation of 300 affiliated officers, 285 of whom were Shiites, and were met with protests from Iraqi forces and resistance groups, who insisted the move was ordered. Tahnoon bin Zayed, National Security Advisor in the UAE.
It seeks to examine the reality of the UAE’s growing influence in Iraq since al-Kadhimi took office in May 2020.
Protest and criticism of Sheikh “Qais Al-Khazali”
“Is the transfer of 300 intelligence personnel from the intelligence services to the border customs related to the arrival of this Emirati team?” Added Asaeb Ahl al-Haq, secretary-general of Iraq. Isn’t it that whenever the UAE enters a village, it destroys it, like what they did in Yemen and Libya? How big is the conspiracy against Iraq? What accelerated its implementation? “To what extent have the perpetrators implemented it?”
“I do not know what is the reason for the silence and tolerance with the fact that it has been happening in Iraq for some time and there is no talk about it being dangerous and threatening the future of the government,” al-Khazali said.
“Alia Nasif” revelation
But Aliya Nasif, a member of parliament from the Nouri al-Maliki-led Coalition for the Rule of Law, said in a televised interview on March 14, 2021: Travels to the UAE about the components of Abu Dhabi’s policies in Iraq.
Nassif added: “The UAE is looting and plundering Iraq, and among them are those who go to Tahnoon and take orders from him, and that parliamentary figures and members of the government have gone to him for positions and positions. “And they will return to that position by appointment. Abu Dhabi also has Ayadi and mercenaries from the Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds in the Iraqi political process.”
“Tahnoon interferes in the political affairs of Iraq and manages the political decision-making process in Iraq. In such a situation, his involvement in security issues should not come as a surprise,” Nasif said.
“Some time ago, a member of parliament went to the UAE and obtained Abu Dhabi’s agreement with the deputy head of the intelligence service, and then he was transferred to the Ministry of National Security,” he noted.
“Most of the officers in the Iraqi intelligence service are Shiites,” Nasif said. “Since taking office, he has been implementing a policy of bringing Sunnis into the government structure, and the security and intelligence apparatus is natural. “Finally, I imagine:” The relocation of 300 officers affiliated with the organization is due to their support for the popular uprising and their proximity to this force. “
In another interview on March 15, 2021, Nassif said: “The UAE’s interference is not limited to the Iraqi intelligence service, but last year the Iraqi Interior Ministry’s” Shaheen team “arrested a man named” ZH “. “After interrogation, it became clear that the UAE had hired him to assassinate some political figures in Karbala.”
Corona vaccines
On March 9, 2021, former Iraqi Interior Minister Baqir al-Jabr al-Zubaidi unveiled the role the UAE is playing in his country by employing close ties to some Iraqi politicians.
In another interview on March 15, 2021, Nassif said: “The UAE’s interference is not limited to the Iraqi intelligence service, but last year the Iraqi Interior Ministry’s” Shaheen team “arrested a man named” ZH “. “After interrogation, it became clear that the UAE had hired him to assassinate some political figures in Karbala.”
