国际英语资讯:News Analysis: Iraq needs plan to tackle factions division after IS defeat_时事

国际英语资讯:News Analysis: Iraq needs plan to tackle factions division after IS defeat

It would be ideal to keep the unity of all Iraqi factions against IS militants, and make it strong enough to continue to forge a national identity that would make all Iraqi factions follow the best interests of all the people of Iraq rather than their own parties.

It requires careful and wise planning "to deal with the political and social division among the Iraqi factions, mainly the major factions Kurds and Sunni Arabs," said Jubouri.

"There is also a need for coordination between the Iraqi government, neighboring countries and the international community in order to curb the interventions that fuel the struggle inside Iraq," Jubouri added.

Sheikh Ahmed al-Safi, representative of Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, conveyed on Friday Sistani's advice to the political leaders to plan carefully for the post-IS stage.

"Everyone should be aware that resorting to violence, oppression and sectarian provocation would only lead to more bloodshed and destruction of the country, and would open the door wide for regional and international interventions," Safi said in the weekly Friday prayer in the holy Shiite city of Karbala.

Meanwhile, Abbas al-Baiyati, a Turkoman Shiite lawmaker said in an interview with Iraqi local television that the failure of the post-invasion governments to meet their citizens' economic and security needs had created conditions for the terrorist group to thrive, as well as continued infighting and corrupting inside the government.