On September 16th, 2025, the Iraqi Vision for Democracy Monitoring was launched in Baghdad.

The ceremony began with a speech by Hussam al-Hajj on behalf of the viewpoint and then asked Sudanese Prime Minister Mohammed Shia to deliver a speech, several political party leaders attended the ceremony.

The ceremony was held in Khuld Hall, which is seen in Iraqi political history as a symbol of the purge of political opponents and Saddam's emergence as the purge of his comrades.

On July 22nd, 1979, at a conference held in this hall, Saddam Hussein had seized the presidency of Iraq for several days. He called out the names of his veteran comrades one by one and sent them from the hall either to prison or to execution. From that day on, Saddam's Ba'athist comrades, in the terrifying environment created by their leader, asked each other whose turn it was after them.

Sudani and Ammar al-Hakim spoke beautifully, but it takes a lot of work between words and actions.

We need a lot of work, so that Baghdad's Khuldi Hall and other places are not turned into places of cleansing and political violence.

The coordinator of Metro Center congratulated Mr. Mohi al-Ansari and Mr. Hessam al-Hajj on the establishment of the Democracy Monitoring Observatory.