伊拉克总理阿里·扎伊迪解除了九名高级安全官员的职务，原因是他们涉嫌在朱尔夫·纳斯尔地区进行石油走私活动，该地区是伊朗支持的“真主党旅”控制的据点。
Iraq’s Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has dismissed nine senior security officials over an alleged oil smuggling operation in the Jurf al-Nasr area, a stronghold of the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah group.
伊拉克军方发言人萨巴赫·努曼告诉伊拉克通讯社（INA），扎伊迪主持了一次紧急安全会议，审查调查委员会关于巴比勒省朱尔夫·纳斯尔走私活动的调查结果。
Al-Zaidi chaired an emergency security meeting to review the findings of a committee investigating smuggling in Jurf al-Nasr, Babil province, military spokesperson Sabah al-Numan told the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
此举是在调查发现非法炼油厂以及与走私活动有关的操纵证据之后采取的。
The move follows an investigation that uncovered illegal oil refineries and evidence of manipulation linked to the smuggling activities.
努曼说：“根据调查结果，[总理]下令将所有涉嫌参与石油走私活动的人员移交司法机关处理。”
“In light of the investigation’s findings, [the prime minister] ordered that all individuals accused of involvement in oil smuggling operations be referred to the judiciary,” al-Numan said.
他还说，总理“还下令解除”九名官员的职务，其中包括巴比勒省的安全和情报官员、内政部一名指挥官以及石油部输油管道公司总经理。巴比勒省警察局长也在被解职者之列。
The prime minister “also ordered the dismissal” of nine officials, including security and intelligence officers in Babil province, an Interior Ministry commander, and the director of the Oil Pipelines Company at the Ministry of Oil, he said. The police chief of Babil province was among those dismissed.
“真主党旅”是一个亲伊朗的准军事组织，也是伊拉克武装力量最强大的派别之一，最近发表了几份措辞严厉的声明，威胁总理政府并指控他贪腐。
Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-aligned paramilitary group and one of Iraq’s most heavily armed factions, has recently issued several sharp statements against the prime minister, threatening his government and accusing him of corruption.
资深伊拉克政客早前曾告诉法新社，扎伊迪多次表示已准备好与拒绝解除武装的团体对抗。
Senior Iraqi politicians previously told the AFP news agency that al-Zaidi had repeatedly said he was ready to confront groups refusing to disarm.
半岛电视台记者彼得·史密斯从巴格达报道称，伊拉克历届政府一直小心避免触及据称每月价值高达3000万美元的石油走私网络问题。
Al Jazeera’s Peter Smith, reporting from Baghdad, said previous Iraqi governments had been careful not to address the issue of an alleged oil smuggling network worth up to $30m monthly.
“直到现在，这一地区实际上一直作为‘国中之国’在运作，”史密斯说。“但这似乎已经改变，总理阿里·扎伊迪表示，伊拉克的任何一寸土地都不允许存在这种走私石油的活动。”
“This area had effectively been run as a state within a state until now,” Smith said. “But that seems to have changed, with Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi saying that no inch of Iraq will be allowed to have oil smuggling operations like this.”
史密斯援引一份泄露的情报报告称，穿过该国南部、巴格达以南的两条战略石油管道“实际上已被非法开采”。“石油被抽走、窃取，然后在黑市上出售，这是一个每月价值数千万美元的行动。”周三，伊拉克国家通讯社（INA）报道称，包含卫星图像的“情报文件”“显示，一个武装派别在朱尔夫·纳斯尔实施了原油和石油衍生品走私行动”，指控一个未具名的团体在那里非法开采管道。努曼表示，调查委员会“确认了该信息的准确性”。
Two strategic oil pipelines running through the south of the country, just south of Baghdad, “had effectively been tapped into”, Smith said, citing a leaked intelligence report. “Oil was being siphoned off, stolen, and then sold on the black market in an operation worth tens of millions of dollars every month.”On Wednesday, the INA reported that “intelligence documents” containing satellite images “showed crude oil and oil-derivatives smuggling operations carried out by an armed faction” in Jurf al-Nasr, accusing an unnamed group of tapping into a pipeline there. Al-Numan said the investigating committee “confirmed the accuracy” of the information.
大西洋理事会伊拉克倡议高级非驻会研究员阿基尔·阿巴斯告诉半岛电视台，伊拉克各政治派别和武装团体走私石油“很常见”，原因是“商业利益而非政治或战略利益”。阿巴斯说，最新的打击行动更多与“民兵解除武装”有关。
Akeel Abbas, a senior non-resident fellow at the Iraq Initiative within the Atlantic Council, told Al Jazeera that oil smuggling by various political factions and armed groups “is common in Iraq” due to “commercial rather than political or strategic” gains. Abbas said the latest crackdown has more to do with “militia disarmament”.
“总理巧妙地决定将其定性为反腐败行动。这就是为什么几天前政府泄露了一份关于该行动的报告，”他说。
“The prime minister cleverly decided to frame it as anticorruption. That is why a few days ago, there was a report leaked by the government about this operation,” he said.
他补充说，总理想要“切断这个一直对政府‘民兵解除武装’倡议表现出强烈抵制的特定团体的财政命脉”。
The prime minister wants to “cut off the financial lifeline to this particular group that has been so resistant” to the government’s “militia disarmament” initiatives, he added.