Saudi authorities indirectly ordered: Shia Adhan (Islamic call to prayer اذان) eliminates in Iraq Media


Director of Al-Iraqiya satellite channel expressed that the Adhan of Shia would be omitted after the order of Iraq’s Prime Minister Office under the request of Saudi Arabia. Director of Al-Iraqiya news channel, Abdul-Karim Hamadi, announced: “Iraq’s prime minister, Noori al-Maliki, upon his return from America said, this decision will be implemented in order to complete the national reconciliation, that it was imposed on the Prime Minister on the request of the United States. Hamadi added: it was said that behind the scene of the negotiations of senior officials from Saudi Arabia and USA, Saudi authorities promised to US officials; they will help Iraq to reach national reconciliation if Iraq state accept their conditions. Some of conditions which imposed on Iraq’s government are: Eliminating Shia Adhan in Iraq’s Official media, Returning  Ba’ath Party to Iraq’s security organizations and so on.