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Al Monitor (3 June 2020)

Omar Sattar

While Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi takes steps to improve relations with neighboring Arab countries and seeks to carry out economic projects with them in an attempt to ward off the repercussions of the current economic crisis, a number of parliament blocs are preparing a draft law to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for “dispatching suicide bombers to Iraq.”

Upon taking office, Saudi Arabia was the first destination of Iraq's new finance minister, Ali Abdul Amir Alawi. Alawi, who also serves as deputy prime minister, arrived in Saudi Arabia at the end of May as Kadhimi’s envoy to discuss the electricity grid connection between the two countries, bring Saudi investments into Iraq and demand that Iraq’s share under April’s OPEC+ deal, which was signed to address the major decline in global oil prices, be increased.

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