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Iraqi Tanks Take Control of the Oil Pipelines In Basra,by Orders of Maliki
The People of Basra Rally to the Support of Oil Workers Strike
Demands are Growing to Put the Oil Law on Hold
Iraqi Government in Panic, Holds Talks With Oil Unions Leaders
The Basra Oil Pipelines Workers Started their strike on Monday defiantly, cutting the oil […]

Iraqi Trade Unionists to tour the US
Demonstration Against the Oil Law
A demonstration will be held on June 5th by US Labour Agianst War against the US contractor paid by the US to help write and promote law in Iraq to put most of Iraq’s oil under control of multinational oil corporations. As part of the […]

The rise of oil workers’ movement in occupied Iraq is not new. The movement is organised country wide body representing 26,000 workers known as the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU), presided by Hassan Jumaa Awad al Assadi, who is active in presenting the case of the federation in many countries. The union leaders […]

Al-Ghad is pleased to publish “The Third Time” by Fouad al-Amir. Following his previous two important articles (here and here) al-Amir clarifies and explains the sorry and confusing state into which the Iraqi Draft Oil Law has descended. This is a major study of Iraq’s current Oil policy and politics in Arabic. Al-Ghad hopes to […]

“Radio Sawa” has broadcast, on 7 May, 07, an interview with Mr. Haider Ibadi, a leading member of Al Da’wa Party, to which the Iraqi Prime Minister Al Maliki, belongs.
Mr. Ibadi disclosed that Sayid Ali Al Sistani, the highest religious authority in Iraq, has warned against any rush in passing outstanding legistlation, which […]

Between the Iraqi Federal Government and the Kurdish Regional Government

Al-Ghad is re-publishing the text of a confidential agreement dated 26th Feb. 2007. We say ‘re-publishing’ for a reason that the confidential Agreement was originally leaked by a source in the ‘Green Zone’, to Raed Jarrar.
The Al-Ghad site has carried the unsigned leaked copy in its […]

Below are two comments on the KRG statement on the Iraqi Draft Oil Law. One by Dr. Muhammad-Ali Zainy, and the second by Dr. Isam Chalabi. Both are well known experts on the subject.
Muhammad-Ali Zainy:
Dr. Hawrami’s statement indicates one of two things: EITHER his statement is a ploy on the part of the KRG to […]

The Kurdish Regional Government has rejected the Iraqi Draft Oil Law and specifically the annexes to the law circulated at a recent meeting in Dubai, “the Dubai Annexes”. The KRG would declare the law “void as unconstitutional”, if it is approved in its current form.

KRG Statement on Draft Iraqi Oil Law
Annex with KRG Analysis
Annex with […]

د. محمد علي زيني
خبير في مركز دراسات الطاقة العالمية- لندن
نتيجة للضجة الشعبية والمعارضة الشديدة التي أثارها قانون النفط والغاز العراقي المقترح، قرر مجلس النواب دعوة خبراء النفط العراقيين المقيمين في الخارج إلى ندوة تقام معهم في دبي بتاريخ 18/4/2007 للاستماع لآرائهم بشأن ذلك القانون، وكنت أنا أحد المدعوين. لقد كانت تلك الدعوة خطوة ديمقراطية طالما […]

Al- Ghad is pleased to publish in full the following two documents presented to the Dubai Seminar on the Draft Oil & Gas Law, held on the 18 April, 07. The Seminar was organised by the Iraqi Parliament. The two authors were not able to present the two papers in full to the Seminar.
The first, […]