Sayyid Al-Hakeem: Realistic Security Challenges Handling Following International Coalition’s Mission End, National Necessity
During the visit to the holy governorate of Karbala, His Eminence Sayyid Al-Hakeem, Head of the National State Powers’ Alliance, met security leaders at the Operations Command headquarters, calling for full readiness and dealing realistically with post-mission Iraq after the end of the mission of the International Coalition, and with terrorism’s attempt to prove a media presence in the coming phase. H.E. stressed the need to read the region’s events and the extent of Iraq’s being affected by them.
H.E. stressed sustaining preemptive operations and intelligence work, and preserving the security achievement made, pointing to Iraq’s suffering from the region’s events economically due to the fluctuation of oil production and exports. H.E. called for adopting a policy of containment, explaining that demand-based demonstrations are a right under the law and the constitution, and called on the security forces to protect the demonstrating youth and state property through forces specialized in handling demonstrations that observe human rights and the constitutional rights of the people, urging them to diversify plans in proportion to the multiplicity and diversity of challenges. H.E. expressed confidence in the ability of Iraqis to overcome challenges through their unity and national cohesion.
