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Saudi Arabia is involved in terrorist attacks inside Iraq with the aim of blackmailing the Iraqi government for further compromises, says a political commentator.

“If you want to see why Saudi Arabia is conducting or sponsoring these attacks in Iraq and in the region, we have to know that Saudi Arabia wants to further blackmail the government of Iraq for further compromises when it is negotiating [with] Iran in a later status or in the near future,” Kevork Elmassian, an academic and political commentator from Beirut, said in an interview with Press TV.

The commentator added that Saudi Arabia is sponsoring the construction of thousands of Wahhabi institutions in the region and the students of these institutions are conducting the terrorist attacks not only in Iraq but also in the whole Middle East.

Saudi nationals have orchestrated and carried out the majority of bomb attacks in neighboring Iraq, a Saudi newspaper recently reported.

According to the Saudi-based newspaper al-Hayat, Saudi militants belonging to the ISIL Takfiri group have been behind 60 percent of the bomb attacks in Iraq during September and early October this year.

The destabilizing acts mostly targeted military bases and checkpoints in different Iraqi provinces, resulting in the deaths of scores of Iraqi civilians.

Elmassian also stated that the ISIL Takfiri terrorists who are implementing the Wahhabi ideology are serving as a “geopolitical asset” for Saudi Arabia in the region.

He added that that the only way to get rid of the ISIL phenomenon is to press the Saudi government to stop sponsoring this ideology.