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Daesh in real retreat from Iraq's Fallujah: Pundit

Wednesday, 25 May 2016 1:57 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 25 May 2016 2:18 PM ]

Iraqi pro-government fighters hold position in al-Shahabi village, east of Fallujah, on May 24, 2016, as part of a major assault to retake the city from Daesh terrorist group. (Photo by AFP)

Press TV has interviewed Sa'ad al-Muttalibi, with the State of Law Coalition from Baghdad, about the Iraqi army advancing in Fallujah to retake the city from the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Obviously the army advances, especially when we’re talking about Fallujah as an example, are very commendable. They all seem uniform, they’re unified and the Iraqi forces are making advances there, but I believe the prime minister has a huge challenge on his hand. On the one side, you have this fight in this war against Daesh and the other you have the political situation and then you have obviously the economy, which is still obviously under stress. How do you think [the] prime minister can pull all these forces together in order to come out on top of the challenges that exist for Iraq?

Muttalibi: I do believe that we are making tremendous advances on the fighting front and ISIS (Daesh) is in real retreat at the moment.

So, from that point of view we don’t really have any ... On the political front today, I heard that Mr. Maliki managed to convince all the political representatives of other parties to hold a united session in the parliament on Sunday.

That session will be reopening all the old files, all the issues that led to the closure of the parliament and the other political parties have already agreed to that. And the head of the parliament this afternoon issued a statement, asking for the re-convenience of the parliament on Sunday and even set a time for that with a positive response from all political parties.

So, I do believe that we are moving ahead with a potential success on the political side.

The only problem, the real problem, we’re facing now is on the economic front, but with the possible loan that will arrive to Iraq from the IMF next month, that may ease some of the economic tensions that already exist in the country.

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