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Top News // 1 decade ago

Iraqi Parliament voting on new speaker

The Iraqi Parliament met Thursday in Baghdad to replace outgoing Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, a media source says.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Iraqi Parliament holds session on speaker

The Iraqi Parliament in its Wednesday session made renewed efforts to elect a new speaker following failed attempts in January.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Kirkuk status looms over Iraqi elections

Iraqi parliamentary speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said Thursday the status of Kirkuk needed to be settled to avoid delaying the fall provincial elections.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Iraqis review reconstruction bill

The Iraqi Parliament Tuesday voted on a series of draft laws including salaries for civil servants and programs targeting national reconstruction.

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Iraq's provincial elections on schedule

Iraq's Parliament speaker said Friday there were technicalities delaying the adoption of provincial election laws, but they were still on schedule for October.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Sadrists inch toward reconciliation

The Iraqi National Security Council called on Moqtada Sadr's fighters and his Mehdi Army to honor legislation calling on political blocs to disarm.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Sadr wants peaceful talks, lawmaker says

A lawmaker with the political party of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr said diplomatic means are the way to peaceful reconciliation in Iraq.

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Maliki delaying peace, Sadrists say

A spokesman for Moqtada Sadr's political party said Friday the government of Iraq failed to respond to a parliamentary initiative for a cease-fire

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Iraqis call for talks on Basra

The Iraqi Parliament speaker called for a session Friday to calm the recent violence in Basra and Baghdad as the U.S. military enters the fray.

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Talabani greets Arab delegates

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani welcomed members of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union for their biannual meeting in Erbil Wednesday calling for Arab solidarity.

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Northern Iraq cannot be pressured. Iraq is a rich country, and if there are economic pressures, we will cut off the (Kirkuk-) Ceyhan pipeline
Analysis: BTC pipeline explosion Aug 06, 2008

The military regime in the country will use this (energy revenues) to develop its war machine to utilize it against the Kurdish people in Turkish Kurdistan
Analysis: BTC pipeline explosion Aug 06, 2008

I'd like to welcome all of you in your second country, Iraq, the nation of glory and civilization, with all wishes of success for this conference
Iraq welcomes Arab delegates in Erbil Mar 11, 2008

Mahmoud Dawud al-Mashhadani (Arabic: محمود المشهداني‎) is an Iraqi politician and the Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives. He was elected to the Council of Representatives as part of the Sunni Arab-led Iraqi Accord Front list.

On December 17, 2008 he announced that he would resign over the chaos that had erupted in parliament among legislators over whether Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush at a December 14 press conference with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, should be freed from jail. The Iraqi Parliament accepted his resignation on December 23.

He was nominated to the speakership by the IAF after the main coalition in the Council of Representatives, the United Iraqi Alliance, objected to the nomination of Tariq Al-Hashimi. He was nominated as part of a deal on government posts between the IAF, UIA and Kurdistani Alliance. He was unanimously elected to the speakership on April 22, 2006, receiving 159 votes against 97 spoilt and 10 abstentions.

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