Iraq prepares to deter attempts to topple Saddam Hussein
Iraqi diplomatic sources in Amman have addressed hidden criticism to Jordan and other Arab states due to their stances which were considered by Iraq to be in line with the US policy which aims at toppling Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime. The Iraqi sources said that moves in the region "try to adapt with a sure strike against Iraq."
Meanwhile, Iraqi parliamentary sources said that the Iraqi National Assembly (parliament ) will discuss next week the role played by the neighboring countries in lifting the sanctions and evaluation of these countries' policies towards Iraq.
In this regard the speaker of the Iraqi parliament, Sadoun Hammadi, sent a message to the general secretariat of the Arab Parliamentarians Federation in which he condemned the stances adopted by Arab parliaments which did not carry out their "obligations" in backing Iraq.
In a step which was described as reflecting the concern of the Iraqi authorities over moves to topple Hussein's government, sources at the ruling Baath party said the party leadership studies a proposal to hold an early meeting for the "regional congress" (the highest party authority) due to be held by the end of July. The Iraqi sources noted that other views in Iraq are for delaying the conference until settling the nearby conflict with the US.
The " regional congress" is expected when convened to nominate Qusai, Saddam Hussein's second son, as the vice president of the state's council, which will be set up instead of the revolution's leadership council, a matter which will enabe Qusai to be the second man in Iraq.
Furthermore, Iraqi diplomatic sources in Amman disclosed the redeployment of the Iraqi armed forces on the border with Iran. The Iraqi diplomatic sources said that these Iraqi measures come in retaliation for the measure taken by Tehran to carry out military exercises at a time when "US threats are being escalated to topple the Iraqi leadership this year and under a Turkish invasion of the Iraqi territories."
The same sources added that the deployment of the Iraqi troops on the border come out of fear of "sneaking and penetration operations carried out by hireling and proxy forces," similar to those noted by a member of the regional leadership of the Iraqi Baath Party, Abdul Baqi al-Sadoun, who is responsible for the Baath Party organizations in Basra and al-Nasereyah in which he accused Iran of sponsoring acts of destruction carried out in Basra last March.
The same Iraqi sources refused to consider Iraq's hosting of "the national council of the Iranian resistance" in one of Mujahidin Khalq on the Iranian border as an aggressive act against Iran.
The sources said Iraq is not entitled of what have been carried out by the Iranian resistance as from outside its territories." It stressed that Iraq does not permit the Mujahidin Khalq to strike Iran from their positions inside the Iraqi territories.