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Between the escalation of the crisis and calls for calm ... Maliki and Barzani in front of difficult choices Ahllagha over!!
The head of Iraq's Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani that the region in full force ready to face any "event is not encouraged" to defend its territory and its citizens.
Barzani called peshmerga forces to exercise restraint over behaviors Alastfsazaah and addressing any (prolonged and hostile exceeded).
The escalation coincided after recent clashes in spend Tuz in Salah ad Din province, last Friday, between judicial protection officer and director of the federal police, charges to stand behind the clashes that led to the killing and wounding 11 people, most of them members of the Tigris operations forces.
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had earlier announced the formation of a "Tigris Operations Command" taken from the oil-rich Kirkuk, north of Baghdad-based, to take over responsibility for security in the provinces of Salahuddin and Diyala.
The move sparked anger Kurdistan region which opposes the control of government forces on the disputed area lies between the two governorates.
Promised, media advisor to the President of the Kurdistan Parliament, Tarek essence, the decision to form the Tigris operations, illegal and unconstitutional.
He said that the formation of leadership mentioned by al-Maliki is unconstitutional and illegal, especially in the disputed areas, demanding Baghdad that there should be prior coordination with the concerned authorities in the Kurdistan region, such as the formation of any military force in those areas where security basically stable.
And demanding the region by appending a swathe (disputed areas) located in the provinces of Kirkuk, Salahuddin, Diyala and Nineveh, to the region in accordance with Article 140, which strongly opposed by Baghdad.
He pointed out that political purposes was behind the formation of such leadership, saying such a decision would not be the well-Iraq during the next phase, he said, adding that al-Maliki and its supporters have consistently escalate the situation with the territory. He said.
The owners had already warned of the Peshmerga forces of provoking the government forces, saying the Peshmerga forces not to do any work that would raise tension and instability and the escalation of the situation in those areas, called these forces to stay away from government forces and avoid provocation.
And gave the tension between Iraq's central government and the Kurds, existing since the days of the demarcation lines near the northern city of Kirkuk, great credibility to the International Crisis Group forecasts that predicted in a report released in 2009, the emergence of a devastating political conflict between the two parties.
Spark a conflict that has not yet reached the stage of destruction, manifested in military exercises conducted by each of the Iraqi army forces of the central government, and Kurdish fighters, known as Peshmerga in areas Altmasalvaslh between Kurdistan and the rest of the country, and resulted in sometimes several for skirmishes and clashes between the two armed forces.
Last photo tension, was armed clash that took place in the district of Tuz's oil city of Kirkuk, on the back of an arrest warrant issued against Kurdish leader belongs to the party of President Jalal Talabani accused of smuggling and corruption, killing one person and injuring ten others, mostly army Almatmrh Baghdad orders.
And carried the control circuits of both parties (the government in Baghdad, and Kurdish authorities) responsible for this tension, which withdrew also grassroots, as some analysts that attempts to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to address the influence of the Kurdish regions of seam, caused a steady increase in tension الناشب along the border line is studio referred to by military circles as the trigger line which curve extending from the Syrian border to the west to the Iranian border in the east.
Among analysts also indicate that the military build-up by both sides, particularly by the Kurdish region, which enjoys almost complete independence from the Centre since the nineties of the last century, another reason to exacerbate the internal conflict, which began to take upward turn.
Hottest political climate in the country generally and punctuated by a war of words has been narrowed fought between Congress supportive of the government of Nuri al-Maliki and their counterparts Kurds opposed to the policies of Baghdad, and exchanged the accusations Takwyneh and barbs, was behind the arrival of the differences to the extent firefight you are trying to several parties, local and international to pick up effects in the region located above the powder keg of explosive at any moment.
But there are hampering efforts truce, especially statements escalatory issued from here and there and most recently was what passed for leader region Massoud Barzani, who called peshmerga forces to counter any prolonged and overcome a hostile, Gamza of the channel moves conducted by Iraqi army forces in areas of conflict.
Barzani said in a statement issued on the back of the clash that took place, that the Kurdistan region in full readiness to face any event is desirable in order to defend our land and our citizens, calling on the Ministry of Peshmerga to take all the necessary measures.
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