Baghdad is secure and rumors of its imminent fall are just psychological warfare, says Nouri Al-Maliki

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) On Thursday the Iraqi Vice President Nouri Al-Maliki affirmed that Baghdad is fortified and that the media should deny rumors and instead reassure the people since assertions to the contrary are “psychological warfare.”

Al-Maliki said at a press conference in Najaf governorate in the presence of the governor Adnan al-Zurfi as well as the leaders of the Dawa party, attended by the correspondent of IraqiNews.com, that “politicians have to set aside their differences in order to avoid further deterioration in the situation, and the need to provide public interest instead of self interests,” he added “the past experience has assured us that we have to live together.”

Al-Maliki considered the so-called Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant as a “part of a political project in the region,” pointing out that “the state has drained too much in security issues.”