TODAY’S MESOP HEADLINE : SOME NEW FACES – SOME OLD FACES – BUT NOTHING NEW
UPDATE: Abadi forms government, Abdulmahdi becomes Oil Minister
Iraqi deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlak, Deputy Prime Minister Baha al-Araji, Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Planning Minister Salman al-Jumaili and Oil Minister Adel Abdul-Mehdi being approved during a parliamentary session to vote on Iraq’s new cabinet on Sept. 8, 2014. – Shahristani’s bloc vows to boycott and the Kurds threaten to do the same if their demands go unmet, while Interior and Defense ministries remain unassigned for now. www.iraqoilreport.com