• Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim: liberating Mosul would be imminent and swift and surprising to the world

    2016/ 06 /19 

    Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim: liberating Mosul would be imminent and swift and surprising to the world

    Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim, chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, indicated that the liberation of the province of Nineveh from ISIS will surprise the world, noting that the Iraqi political situation seems promising and is very close to a breakthrough.

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    This took place during his eminence’s visit to the Kuwaiti Journalists Association Sunday, 19.06.2016.

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    His eminence expressed his happiness to visit Kuwait, despite the preoccupation of the Iraq with war, adding that his visit to Kuwait and meeting with officials had shed light on what is happening in Iraq and the nature of regional and international issues and its impacts, noting that the two countries are both going through the ramification of the events and what is happening in Iraq is reflected on the Kuwaiti side.

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    His eminence indicated that his meeting with the his highness Emir of Kuwait has been insightful, and that his highness was knowledgeable to what is happening in Iraq and has a familiarity with the Iraqi issues, stressing that the situation in Iraq is witnessing significant breakthroughs, pointing out that the security forces and the popular forces caused the collapse of ISIS terrorist groups in the city of Fallujah as a result of the high coordination among the Iraqi security forces, noting that after the liberation of Fallujah the attention will be focused on Nineveh, ISIS\'s main stronghold that is considered ISIS’s capital, which is the second largest province in Iraq , expecting a quick ,imminent and surprising victory to the world in Nineveh that will be a reflection of the unity of all Iraqis.

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    His Eminence stressed the need to focus on the pros and also handling errors, for this matter a committee was assembled to follow up on any breach and will punish those involved, stating that \"mistakes are everywhere, even within the US Army and will punish the wrongdoers, describing \" the liberation of Fallujah military operations the cleanest and most organized operations that had occurred in the history of the earth that results in liberating Iraqi soils, and we hope that things would not be interpreted otherwise”, pointing out that the countries that rely on oil as an economy pillar suffer a great deal of pressure, yet Iraq is able to overcome the economic crisis, and trading that took place with the countries of the world had provided Iraq with a lot of funding that enable Iraq to overcome the economic crisis for several years to come. 

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    In respect of the political situation, Sayyid Ammar Al-Hakim stated that \"there are promising positive features with regard to the return of displaced families to their original places, six hundred and fifty thousand displaced people had returned to their families and their homes and we hope that there will be not even a single displaced individual in Iraq after the liberation of Mosul from terrorists, since the co-occurrence of military operations in Al-Riqa and Mosul will help the two countries to stop the flow of terrorists into both countries\", noting that ISIS fighting in a tactical manner, Iranian counseling the Iraqi security forces had helped the Iraqis in eliminating the terrorists, explaining that there is no harm form benefiting of all the advisers from different countries, because we had asked all the world to help in liberating Iraq from terrorism.