Abdul-Mahdi: Oil developed in Iraq at the expense of other sectors and caused internal and external wars

calling for the need to address this matter in order to avoid future crises and economic problems.

Abdul-Mahdi said in a speech during a meeting of local governments to discuss issues related to the transfer of powers to the producing provinces, which was held in Dhi Qar, that oil development in the past decades has been at the expense of other sectors of industry, agriculture, tourism and others as This development led to internal and external wars.

The Minister of Oil added that oil must be at the service of the Iraqi citizen and what we've seen in previous decades that oil development has led to increased unemployment, on the contrary of what is required.