Iraq rejects UAE claims of Qatar funding paramilitaries

[Typhoon]

Iraq has expressed concern over an Emirati official's remarks claiming the country's Shia-dominated paramilitary forces have received funds from Qatar.

Iraq's foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Mahjoub on Wednesday questioned the validity of the allegations made by the United Arab Emirates Foreign Affairs Minister Anwar Gargash.

"These remarks come as an obstacle at a time when Iraq is seeking to strengthen its ties with the UAE," Mahjoob said.

"They are a cause for concern over the possibility of fostering and developing relations," he told Russian news agency Sputnik.

In a Twitter post on Monday, Gargash accused the Qatari government of paying various "terrorist" groups up to $1bn, naming Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah movement, and al-Nusra Front, now known as Hay'et Tahrir al-Sham.

The accusations are the latest made by the Gulf emirate against Qatar.

UAE - along with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt - severed diplomatic ties with Doha in June last year and imposed an air, sea, and land blockade, while accusing Qatar of supporting "extremism" and developing ties with Iran - their regional rival.

Qatar has vehemently denied all allegations.

Ahmed Saeed al-Rumaihi, head of Qatar's media office for the foreign ministry, described Gargash's accusations as "baseless" and made without evidence. The comments were merely "promoting lies", Rumaihi added.

Roughly 60 factions make up Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF, also known as PMU) - an umbrella of armed groups rallied by Iraq's ethnic and tribal leaders.

PMF's 40 divisions - comprising more than 60,000 fighters - played a key role in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which captured a large swath of Iraq in 2014, but now has been defeated.

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UAE is losing the plot, they dont have a idea how international relations is practised and is applied, to real situations
George town university failed these boyish arabs from the uae.
No major power is entertaining their amateurish and pugnacious Savoir faire
they dont understand how to survive in the kings cut throat court(USA)

Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto von Bismarck

[grandpakhalif]

Professor eaglehawk, UAE is a rogue state but don't forget she has the blessings of the American elite and can do what she wills. when they go to far they are dealt with.

UAE even had a spat with the bloody canadians thats how stupid they are. i hope oil becomes obsolete soon because it is an enabler of futile arab power, which is artificial and is a parasite of american hegemony

[Typhoon]

Professor eaglehawk, UAE is a rogue state but don't forget she has the blessings of the American elite and can do what she wills. when they go to far they are dealt with.

UAE even had a spat with the bloody canadians thats how stupid they are. i hope oil becomes obsolete soon because it is an enabler of futile arab power, which is artificial and is a parasite of american hegemony

My Dear archduke Granpa,
I am a expert on the Mueller investigation and american politics, the UAE was trying to build a intelligence network and overstepped their boundaries, they have colluded( real or perceived dont matter) with the russians and trump allies.

UAE is persona non grata among the United States bureaucracy.
The Seychelles meeting between UAE, Eric Prince and Russian intelligence operative is what alienated them from the american elite.
Somalia and Farmaajo have been a loyal friend to the united states, the somali government got great american advisers, who do think advised somalia to stay away from the gulf dispute and guides them through treacherous international politics.

Never underestimate peculiar world Herr Eaglehawk operates in and my cliental in