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Shafaq News- Baghdad<\/p>\n
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has proposed a plan to the
\nUnited States that would link the expansion of US-led service and investment
\nprojects in Iraq to efforts to restrict weapons to state control and facilitate
\nthe disarmament of armed factions, a political source told Shafaq News on
\nTuesday.<\/p>\n
The proposal aims to shift the weapons issue from a direct
\nsecurity challenge into a broader political and economic settlement by
\nproviding practical alternatives for faction members, particularly through
\nemployment opportunities and productive development projects.<\/p>\n
“Al-Zaidi<\/a> believes that the involvement of Earlier in the day, Asaib Ahl al-Haq (AAH), one of Iraq’s Ashab al-Kahf<\/a>, also one of Iraq’s prominent clandestine Al-Zaidi has made weapons restriction a central plank of his
\nAmerican companies in service and investment sectors could provide the
\ngovernment with economic and political support for implementing a gradual
\ndisarmament plan,” the source said, adding that\u00a0It would also seek to create jobs for young Iraqis, integrate some faction members into the labor market, and reduce their reliance
\non armed formations operating outside state institutions. <\/p>\n
\nmost powerful Iran-aligned armed factions, announced the formation of an
\ninternal central committee tasked with implementing the group’s disengagement
\nfrom Popular Mobilization Forces structures and transferring its weapons,
\npersonnel, and equipment to state authority.<\/p>\n
\narmed groups, rejected outright any political calls for factions to surrender their
\nweapons, dismissing arguments invoking the supreme Shia religious authority in
\nsupport of disarmament as false.\u00a0Kataib Hezbollah<\/a>\u00a0welcomed efforts to centralize arms
\nunder government oversight while signaling it would not disarm.<\/p>\n
\ngovernment program, welcoming al-Sadr’s earlier disarmament initiative as a
\nstep that would strengthen Iraq’s security institutions in performing their
\nconstitutional duties, and calling on other armed factions to follow through
\nofficial state channels, on the principle that \u201cthe authority to bear arms and
\nenforce the law belongs exclusively to the state.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n