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USADI
Commentary
Capitulation by Any Other Name
The wise men and
women of the Iraqi Study Group are reportedly
gearing up to recommend the inclusion of Syria
and Iran as partners for bringing about peace
and security in Iraq. If this is not an outright
capitulation to two state-sponsors of terrorism
and main foreign culprits in fomenting terror
and bloodshed in Iraq, then what is?
As Iraq’s President Jalal Talebani arrived in
Tehran on Monday, Iran’s president Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad greeted him by pledging that his
government “will do anything to help bring peace
into Iraq.” Imagine that: Ahmadinejad; the
peacemaker.
Meanwhile, according to the New York Times, a
senior American intelligence official has
revealed that Tehran has coordinated the
training of up to 2,000 fighters of the Iraqi
Mahdi Army and other Shiite militias by
Hezbollah.
The Times added that “American officials say the
Iranians have also provided direct support to
Shiite militias in Iraq, including explosives
and trigger devices for roadside bombs, and
training for several thousand fighters, mostly
in Iran. The training is carried out by the
Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Ministry of
Intelligence and Security, they say.”
Ahmadinejad and his regime are obviously the
perfect fit for the very peacemaker the
Baker-Hamilton’s Iraq Study Group has been
looking for!
On Sunday, the mullahs’ president who has a
knack for venomously bombastic tirade, went on a
rant about Iraq and pledged to help the
situation in Iraq if the U.S. left Iraq
immediately. Ahmadinejad, who represents a
regime up to its neck in the murder and torture
of Iranian dissidents and political activists,
also preached to the United States to follow
path of morality and justice in Iraq right
before he threatened Washington with fomenting
more violence in Iraq and beyond.
“This is a divine public call. Pursue the path
of the prophets, worship God Almighty and seek
justice. If you fail to respond to this
invitation, the sense of justice of the world
nations will soon topple you and force you to
give up your reins of power,” he said.
Imagine that: Ahmadinejad – nicknamed by
colleagues as “the Terminator” while completing
a tour of duty in Iran’s notorious Evin prison
as an interrogator and executioner of political
prisoners – preaching justice. Messer Baker and
Hamilton should take note!
The truth of the matter is that the Iranian
regime seeks to turn Iraq into a client state as
a prerequisite for its strategic goal of
erecting an Islamic Empire in the region. To
this end and through its Iraqi proxies of
different religious stripes, Tehran has embarked
on an appalling campaign of terror and sectarian
bloodletting in Iraq as its ploys to hijack the
ideological and political leadership of Shiite
Iraqis has for the most part failed.
The daily carnage in Iraq has paralyzed the
engendering of any meaningful political process
to arch over differences of ideas about how to
secure a stable, unified and democratic Iraq.
And that’s what exactly Tehran seeks; the
“managed instability” in Iraq, as one American
senior official has put it. Many Iraqis have in
fact likened Tehran’s nefarious campaign of
fueling sectarian bloodletting to the “Eastern
poisonous winds” which has been spreading
throughout their country.
Meshan Saadi, leader of Iraq’s Salvation Front
of Diyala province, told the Abu Dhabi
television that, “Through its intelligence
agents, the Iranian regime carries out sabotage
operations in Iraq. This regime makes no secret
of its interference… If we want Iraq to
stabilize, first of all, all Arab countries and
all countries of the world must put obstacles in
the way of the Iranian regime in Iraq. This is
the only way to cease troubles and bring
stability in Iraq once again.”
Earlier this month, Dr. Saleh Mutlaq, leader of
the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue told a
U.S. Congressional briefing that
“Fundamentalists want to take over Iraq. The
problems we experience will get worse and worse
with the increasing meddling of the agents of
the Iranian Intelligence Ministry. The
infiltration of this ministry in south of Iraq
is so obvious that in Basra, when the residents
want to give an address, they use the office of
the Iranian Intelligence ministry as a
landmark.”
Against this backdrop, the wise men and women of
the Iraqi Study Group are reportedly gearing up
to recommend the inclusion of Syria and Iran as
partners for bringing about peace and security
in Iraq. If this is not an outright capitulation
to two state-sponsors of terrorism and main
foreign culprits in fomenting terror and
bloodshed in Iraq, then what is?
(USADI)
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