Are the regional changes lead the Iraq Shiites to revive the idea of ​​the regions?

Even a few months ago, speaking of the history of the regions, it was not contained in the space of the parts and sciite factions, and even these groups were a stream of accusations of “betrayal and pursuit of the division” of the voices that asked for the establishment of their territory, and often these statements have been issued Iraqi ethnicity.

It has been reported that one of the reasons for the dismissal of the former parliament speaker, Muhammad al -halbousi, from his place in November 2024, was his effort to form his private Sunni region, which includes the provinces of (Anbar, Nine and Salah al -in).

Also with the approval of article 119 of the permanent constitution of the country against one or more provinces to form their Constitution, the statements were treated as “suspicious” also within the Shiite component.

The refusal of the idea of ​​establishing the constitutional regions has exceeded the space of the Sciite forces to extend to the largest judicial authority in the country, in which the head of the supreme judicial council, Faeq Zidan (Shiite) in mid -February 2024, rejected the idea and changed the idea “Isto” said at the moment that “the idea of ​​establishing other regions in any region in Iraq is rejected because it threatens the unit of Iraq and its security”.

Today the situation has changed and influential figures in the Shiite forces and their armed factions are publicly talking about the possibility of including 9 governors in the center and south of the country to form their territory.

The head of the coalition of “State of law”, Nuri al -Maliki, mentioned the idea of ​​the region, based on the fact that most of the country’s oil wealth is concentrated in its southern provinces and, consequently, the damage will inflict the rest of the provinces that do not -olyl if the country is divided into federations, but has returned and denied which represents an invitation to establish a shin.

But the representative Hussein Labo, a member of the Brigades of Hezbollah, was clearer in this direction, when he said in the press declarations of last week, that “the Shiite situation in the country so far adheres to the question of governance (the presidency of the government)”. He added: “In the formation of each government, the Shiite component is subjected to extortion to confirm the personality of the minister so and for the prime minister … The political equation should be formulated in another form, since Shiites give non -breakdow options, which is that the Shiites are chosen between federalism and Shiite independence and taking nine provinces and between the government.”

The new invitations have faced a wave of many criticisms of Shiite and Sunnis levels, the latter saw a coup d’état against the adhesion of the Shiite forces to their position by rejecting the idea of ​​the regions, although the same forces have insisted on the paragraph of the paragraph of the stormed in the profound political transformations in the Region and the possibility of these transformations to influence its influence and authority in the country.

The writer and researcher in the business of the Islamic groups, Ibrahim al -abadi, believes that the request for establishing a Shiite region is due to two factors, the first is to “fail the state in achieving a balanced level of development, as provinces with a sciite majority feeling that have not received sufficient financial allocations that increase the efficiency of the levels of poverty, and offer opportunities and offer job opportunities and offer job opportunities and offer a degree for the degree.

Al -Badi told Asharq al -Awsat that the second reason is linked to “an increase in the feeling of injustice compared to what the Kurdistan region obtains, as the southern Shiite regions are the largest supplier of the budget due to oil and gas it produces, but does not obtain a parallel share of what the region obtains”.

Al -Badi notes that he recently noticed that the Sciite elites were asking to establish the rules of the state in Iraq on the basis of citizenship and not on the basis of the components, but today “he began to turn on this principle and has become more accepted and inclined to the special treatment; Since he believes that Shiite areas have become like a milk cow, the center dissipates their revenues with political satisfaction, while the other parties do not stop manufacturing more crises and pressure on the general budget and causing a great deficit due to what is spent in the region and in other regions “.

However, Shiites have the responsibility of the state administration and make sacrifices without accusation, but at -abadi does not ignore the reasons relating to the regional transformations and the riots and its effects on the calls of the new virtue, such as “the change that occurred in the SIALIO, the increase in sectarian divisions, the axes (the axes are used for the exchange, the forces by the axes, the axes of the axes, Change, the forces by the axes, the axes of the axes, the exchange axes, the resistance change axes), all this pushes some sciite forces to review their reports, rely on the idea of ​​a mass of the blockade and the car -in a space of regional and international political suspicion.