By Riyad Zein Eddine, IOL Iran correspondent

TEHRAN, December 29 (IslamOnline) – An Iraqi opposition leader condemned remarks made by the vice president of the Turkish Justice and Development Party, Murad Morgan, in which he said Ankara has to have it’s share in the Iraqi oil.

Mohamad Hadi Al Asadi head of the media office of the higher council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq said: “Morgan’s statement increases the complications in the Iraqi crisis and ads more doubts about the nature of the Turkish stance towards the Iraqi people.”

He described the Turkish demand of 10 per cent of the revenues of the Iraqi oil in the post Iraqi President Saddam Hussein era as “ridiculing the will of the Iraqi people and a blatant interference in the Iraqi internal affairs.”

He stressed that the Iraqi opposition forces will not allow any foreign force to take over the wealth and resources of Iraq.

Speaking to reporters, Al Asadi called on the Turkish government to use wisdom in dealing with the Iraqi crisis and stressed that the United States, will not be the decision maker with regards to deciding Iraq’s fate or controlling its wealth.

He regarded the Turkish demand as being illegitimate and completely unacceptable.

With regards to the timings of these statement, Al Asadi said that releasing statements like this means that the Turkish government is aware that Saddam Hussein’s regime is near to falling.

“The fall of the regime does not mean that Iraq will become a victim of a game among nations. Every country needs to be aware that the Iraqi people will resist any domination from a foreign power and will not allow for his struggle against a dictatorship to be replaced with a foreign tyranny,” he said.

Al Asadi stressed that the oil and all the Iraqi wealth is not owned by Saddam’s regime to be distributed as if it was an inheritance after the fall of the regime.

“The oil is owned by the (Iraqi people and no one has the right to manage it except the person whom the Iraqi people choose in a free election after the fall of the regime,” he said.

The Turkish Al Sabah newspaper published a statement for Morgan on Friday, December 27, saying that Turkey should have 10 per cent of the Iraqi oil after the fall of the regime and it said that Ankara had submitted a formal request to the United states on this and is still waiting for an official response.