Sayyid Al-Hakeem: National Partnership, Reassurance Messages Strip Terrorism of Social Incubators
His Eminence Sayyid Al-Hakeem, Head of the National State Powers’ Alliance, met with a number of security leaders in Kirkuk during a visit to the Kirkuk Operations Command, congratulating them on Iraqi Sovereignty Day and regarding it as a message of recovery and a necessity for shouldering responsibility in the coming phase.
H.E. affirmed the nature of the challenges facing Iraq, including the security challenge and how to monitor and pursue terrorist cells to achieve sustainable security, calling for vigilance and caution and for establishing a consistent approach to this challenge without underestimation or exaggeration, stressing the importance of restoring security and information exchange with neighboring countries, and drawing attention to the dynamic of terrorism, which seeks to prove itself through an operation here or there in order to say “I exist.”
H.E. stressed sending messages of reassurance among the Iraqi components, affirming the importance of genuine partnership among compatriots, explaining that these steps strip terrorism of its social incubators, calling for moving forward with the measures to address the problem of weapons outside the framework of the state under any label, valuing the role of the factions in combating terrorism, and clarifying that security is a fundamental prerequisite for stability, economic revival, and the entry of investments.