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Iraqi Communist Party Headquarters Suffers Bomb Attack

  • The Iraqi Communist Party is the oldest active party in Iraq, founded in 1934.

    The Iraqi Communist Party is the oldest active party in Iraq, founded in 1934. | Photo: Reuters

Published 25 May 2018
Opinion

The party has recently had electoral victories as part of the Sairoon alliance.

The Baghdad headquarters of the Iraqi Communist Party, which is part of the Sairoon alliance that won Iraq's parliamentary election, was targeted by a homemade bomb attack Friday.

The explosive devices were thrown into the building's gardens, but did not cause any casualties.

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A senior party member, Jassim Helfi, said that the attack was a message from those who opposed the Sairoon bloc's push to end corruption and foreign interference in the country.

“We reject all but a diplomatic U.S. presence in Iraq. We will not let our country become a staging area for attacking our neighbors,” Sairoon spokesperson Ziya al-Asad said this week.

A political alliance led by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the Sairoon alliance scored an electoral victory earlier this month on a platform of expanding public services, rejecting foreign interference, and tackling corruption.

Al-Sadr himself cannot become prime minister because he did not run in the election, though his bloc’s victory puts him in a position to have a strong say in negotiations on forming a new government.

As part of the new alliance, a Communist party member, Suhad al-Khateeb, was elected to represent the city of Najaf on a platform of poverty reduction and women's rights.

The Iraqi Communist Party is the oldest active party in Iraq, founded in 1934.

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