Does al-Kazimi turn the wheels around?

In a brave and rare move, Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council issued orders to arrest the PMF’s terrorist leader, Qassim Muslih, the Anbar operations commander.

For the most part, the four Iraqi presidencies, the President of the Republic, the Government, the Parliament, and the Judiciary, met to discuss and investigate Qasim’s matter. A statement was issued after threats issued by the PMF factions. The presidential statement said that “the state must be supported in limiting its weapons to the sedition, and in taking unified, serious, and decisive positions to address the crisis.”

Those involved in interrogating the terrorist Qassim Muslih are Joint Operations, National Security and Intelligence, as well as a representative of the PMF. Imagine! Nevertheless, the leaders of the “crowd” are usurping in revolt.

Qassim Muslih is not just a traffic violation, but a man whose hand is stained with blood. An official from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard accused of killing Iraqi activists, especially in Kerbala, such as Ihab Al-Wazni and Fahem Al-Tai, by shooting in front of their houses. Al-Wazni’s mother announced direct threats to her son from Qassim, saying that he told her son, “I will kill you even if I live for one day!”

Documents have been released about the assassination of al-Wazni, al-Tai, and others.

Qassim also put Iraq’s top interests at risk by targeting U.S. bases, in implementation of the IRGC’s wishes.

He and his ilk are involved in a major devastation in Iraq, for example, since the outbreak of Iraqi popular protests nearly two years ago, more than 70 activists have been assassinated or attempted assassinations, while scores more have been kidnapped for certain periods.

The Iraqi state’s sovereign authorities have already arrested some leaders and operators of the “loyal” PMF, the local Iraqi designation for the IRGC’s peshmerga factions.

But the state authorities did not hold fast and were quick to release them. Will they do it this time and be subject to the threats of PMF leaders, such as Qais al-Khazali and Shebl al-Zaidi, and the graduation of their colleague and accomplice in the sabotage of Iraq, Qassim Muslih?

The test is difficult and the time is short, and Iraq is in the throes of pain and is trying to get out of the tunnel of corruption, of which the “crowd” factions have the fullest share. Will the Iraqi state, represented by its political, executive, judicial, security and legislative institutions, succeed in the victory of the state against the militia?

One of the difficult dilemmas is legitimizing the presence of the “crowd” in the body of the state through a previous vote of the parliament, in which the majority was and still is for these factions, but perhaps this dilemma holds a glimmer of hope within them! Indeed, in theory today, the PMF’s subordination to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces gives the head of government, in this case Mustafa al-Kazimi, the legitimacy to control it… If the body of the Iraqi state recovers even after a while.

Al-Kazimi may succeed and may fail, especially with the approach of election advocacy and its outcomes. What is more important is that there is a path on which the wheels of the Iraqi state have begun to walk, wheels that may change the course of history, and Sumerian wheels have changed the world since ancient times.