Press TV has conducted an interview with Sabah Jawad, director of the Iraqi Democrats against Occupation from London, to shed more light on the issue of the latest series of deadly explosions in the country during the holy month of Ramadan.
Following is an approximate transcription of the interview.

– Indeed Martin Kobler (UN envoy to Iraq) puts it correctly when he says, these attacks are extremely senseless. What do you make of this as specifically considering that these attacks have sharply increased during this holy month of Ramadan?

-This has been happening quite a lot recently in the last few months as well and we could only speculate about the perpetrators of such crimes but a lot of people think that it is linked to the events in Syria because terrorism is, actually, happening in Syria at the moment and there are strong terrorist links between al-Qaeda in Iraq and al-Qaeda and al-Nusrah in Syria as well. Especially after they have been suffering setbacks in Syria they are trying to open new fronts in Iraq to help each other.
It has been going on and also the political system is a bit shaky, there is conflict within political forces in Iraq which is not helping the situation at all and we have a situation where the security service seems to be unable to control and tackle these issues, which indicates, actually, that security forces itself has been infiltrated by some forces which do not want peace and tranquility in Iraq as well.

– Right, so what do you see next for Iraq? Do you see the country being able to clean up these security forces from within and also unite against the threats that it is facing?

– Well, this is a legacy of the occupation of Iraq by the United States and the British for the past ten years or so…, they recruited a lot of pro-Ba’athists within the security systems. There is a lot of people in the security system who do not feel (have) allegiance to Iraq as such.

They have links with the regional powers, they are part and parcel of the whole plan to destabilize and divide the Middle East on sectarian lines as well.

We see these kind of things happening not only in Iraq but we see it happening in Syria and recently in Lebanon and elsewhere in the region.

There is a campaign to ferment…, and to be able to control…, and this what is happening in Iraq and Syria and Lebanon. It is a great favor to the Israelis and their plans in the Middle East as well.

So what is happening in Iraq is part and parcel of what is happening in the Middle East.