Iraqi MP: Israel Plotting to Disintegrate Iraq

Iraqi MP: Israel Plotting to Disintegrate Iraq TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent lawmaker at the Iraqi Parliament voiced Turkmens' strong opposition to any plan to divide Iraq into three states, and described it as an Israeli plot to undermine Iraq's power. http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9107130559 "Disintegrating Iraq into three Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish states is a plot hatched by Israel," Mohammad Mehdi Bayati, a Turkmen member of the Iraqi parliament, said on Wednesday. He added that Turkmens are strongly against the plot, specially creation of an independent Kurdish state as proposed by Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government Nechirvan Barzani which would also include Turkmen regions. Bayati stated that the plot is based on ethnic discrimination, aimed at undermining the Iraqi nation, and called on Iraq's politicians to avoid tilting to ethnic tendencies. Earlier media reports have unveiled close cooperation between Iraqi Kurdistan region and Israel. A report by the Dutch Daily Telegraph said in October 2012 that Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has had the biggest arms trade with Israel that made the region the top importer of Israeli weapons. The report revealed that the KRG leader's son, Massrour Barzani, has struck an arms deal with an Israeli military industries delegation and a US company owned by three Israeli businessmen. The Israeli arms cargo will be shipped to the Iraqi Kurdistan region via Iraq-Syria border. The region will top the customers of Israel in Asia for the current year after conducting consecutive transactions worth $ 20 billion to buy 12 fighter aircraft, 20 combat helicopter, 3 transportation helicopters and the highly advanced Israeli Abrams tanks and a missile shield, anti-aircraft guns and artilleries, personnel carrier, military boats and radar systems. Israel has long been seeking a plot to divide the regional countries into smaller states in a bid to undermine their power and stir ethnic and religious strife among them. In Iraq, the Zionist regime and its American backers have long been striving to divide the Muslim country into Sunni, Shiite and Kurd regions.