No country, including the US, would dare stop Baghdad from approaching Tehran since Iraq is an independent state,
I think that the majority of Iraqi people, including some Arab Sunnis, will vote for 'yes' in the referendum.
We need to ignore some petty or nonessential or marginal issues in order to achieve national unity for Iraq, including the unity of the opposition.
We in the Iraqi opposition have a common stand that the opposition forces, assisted by regional and international states including the United States, must undertake comprehensive democratic changes.
Saddam Hussein committed many crimes, the most important of which are the mass graves that hold hundreds of thousands of Iraqis including children, women, the elderly and men who were buried without a trial.