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Iraq PM announces arrests for murder of prominent analyst Hashemi


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We don’t care about media spin: we carry out our duties in the service of our people & in pursuit of justice.— Mustafa Al-Kadhimi مصطفى الكاظمي (@MAKadhimi) July 16, 2021As well as being an expert on Sunni armed groups such as ISIL (ISIS) operating in Iraq, al-Hashemi had become outspoken against powerful Shia armed actors aligned with Tehran.Al-Hashemi’s support for popular protests that erupted in 2019 against a government seen as too close to Iran infuriated Tehran-backed Shia factions in Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitary network.The Hashd holds the second-biggest bloc in Iraq’s parliament and controls vast financial assets.Weeks before his death, al-Hashemi had told confidantes he feared Iran-backed groups were targeting him.Ghanim al-Abed, an Iraqi political analyst, said sources told him the arrest was made a significant amount of time before it was announced.“According to the information I received, the arrest took place a long time ago after pressure by political parties to reveal their identities – on condition of not providing details that he is linked to Iran or the Hezbollah Brigades,” al-Abed told Al Jazeera.Raed al-Hamid, a researcher on armed groups, told Al Jazeera: “I think the government, after more than a year of the al-Hashemi assassination, found itself forced to announce the killers.

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