The daily Al Sabaah newspaper said Friday in its editorial that observers of the political process in Iraq today cannot illustrate it or acknowledge its aims or intentions, which turns the process of analyzing it into something close to a guessing game.

The editorial titled "Coded politics" said that one reason it is so difficult to analyze the political process in Iraq is the lack of trust among the components of the Iraqi society, whether in terms of the rulers or the ruled.

"The climax of the sectarian divisions is represented by the mistrust politicians felt toward each other. So, instead of appointing the right people to the right positions, politicians made appointments to government posts on a sectarian basis, fearing that people from other sects or ethnicities would turn against them."

The sectarian division has chained all three branches of government -- the executive, judicial and legislative -- and paralyzed them, the newspaper said.

Such chains have caused delays in making key decisions, especially those needing immediate responses such as the deteriorating security situation, the editorial said.