Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday, the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of this year a good thing, adding that he expected lead to a change in relations between Tehran and Baghdad. Ahmadinejad said during a television interview with the CNN ” I think the withdrawal is a good thing I was supposed to happen for a long time, “explaining that” had happened before the seven or eight years, it fell a smaller number of dead Iraqis and American soldiers. “
He said the Iranian president that “the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq” will lead to a change in relations between Tehran and Baghdad, “did not specify the type of change to expect. and President Obama Friday the withdrawal of approximately 39 thousand American soldiers are still present in Iraq before the end of the year, criticized the American right decision, saying it increases Iran’s influence in this country.
The president responded Iran on the possibility of his country to train the Iraqi army after the withdrawal of U.S. troops by saying that “the Iraqi government is an independent, which makes the decision on how to train its forces,” adding that “We have historical ties and friendly and strong with Iraq in all fields, as well as the excellent relations between the peoples of both countries.” .
He said Ahmadinejad “Accordingly, we say that relations between Iran and Iraq is a special relationship at the international level.” and Iran has taken a position well thought out too during the American intervention in 2003 which eliminated the regime of President Saddam Hussein, the main enemy, and brought to power Shiite majority in the the country, but quickly demanded the withdrawal of U.S. forces, accusing them of forming an element of tension in the region, and also demand for the same reasons the withdrawal of U.S. forces in the Gulf, and Western troops in Afghanistan.
The United States accuses Iran of backing armed groups in Iraq has launched attacks against U.S. forces, in addition to support organizations and currents loyal to its policy. He said Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki at a press conference on Saturday that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of this year “will remove all the arguments from which the elements of” terrorist “and Al Qaeda, and all the” concern and suspicion of others, “adding that the process of withdrawal is “a success for Iraq and the United States and the beginning of a new relationship in the implementation of the Strategic Framework Agreement.”
The American President Barak Obama said, on Friday (21 October now) that his country’s troops in Iraqi territory would be in the United States during the holidays He stressed that Washington will support Iraq in all areas, with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki via videoconference with Barack Obama on the need to begin a new phase of strategic relations after the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq on schedule end of the year 2011.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said, in the August 30 last, that the withdrawal of U.S. troops will be implemented on schedule later this year, as there will be no base for U.S. forces in the country. Under the security agreement signed between Baghdad and Washington at the end of November 2008 that it should withdraw all the forces of the United States of all lands and waters and airspace of Iraq not later than 31 December of 2011 the current, having withdrawn U.S. combat forces under the Convention, cities, villages and towns of Iraq June 30, 2009.
Iraq has signed and the United States, too, in 2008, the Framework Agreement strategy to support the ministries and agencies of the Iraqi transition from the strategic partnership with the Republic of Iraq to the areas of economic, diplomatic, cultural and security, based on reducing the number of reconstruction teams in the provinces, as well as providing important sustainable rule of law, including the police development program and the completion of the coordination and supervision and the report of the Fund of Iraq relief and reconstruction.
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