{"id":16929,"date":"2014-08-02T13:59:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T12:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/iran-a-world\/16929-maliki-under-more-pressure-to-step-down"},"modified":"2023-01-14T21:35:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T20:35:03","slug":"maliki-under-more-pressure-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-a-world\/maliki-under-more-pressure-to-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Maliki under more pressure to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"maliki-us2\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-41872\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/maliki-us2.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left;margin: 5px\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki faced more pressure to step down Friday, as Ali al-Sistani, the most influential Shiite figure in Iraq appealed to Iraqi politicians not to make themselves \u201can obstacle\u201d in the country\u2019s transition to a new government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big challenges facing Iraq require that the next government command national and broad acceptance &#8230; to face the crises that are hitting the country,\u201d spokesman Ahmed al-Safi quoted the al-Sistani as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one should make himself an obstacle in achieving national consensus,\u201d Safi said during the sermon in the Shiite city of Kabala.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks made by delivered by his spokesman, were another indirect appeal to Maliki to step down.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Friday Iraqi Foreign Minister blamed<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/no-to-nouri-al-maliki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Nouri al-Malik<\/a>i for the current crisis in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Surely the man who is responsible for the general policies bears the responsibility and the general commander of the armed force, the ministers of defence and interior also bear these responsibilities,&#8221; Zebari told al-Arabiya television.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are other sides who bear responsibility, maybe political partners, but the biggest and greatest responsibility is on the person in charge of public policies,&#8221; he sai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki faced more pressure to step down Friday, as Ali al-Sistani, the most influential Shiite figure in Iraq appealed to Iraqi politicians not to make themselves [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":41872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-16929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-a-world","8":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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