Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Crisis and realignment
Kuwaiti columnist Ammar Taqi describes Iran's "transparent stand on Iraq," which Juan Cole says reflects a lot of Middle East thinking.
Basically, Iran thinks that the "U.S.-Zionist regime" has blorched things up so badly that the only way it can stick to its plan to realign the region is to is to keep the region in crisis. In order "to reduce pressure on occupying forces and justify its repeated failures in Baghdad," the U.S. and Israel are coordinating military and intelligence actions to exacerbate sectarian tensions.
Key points:
Basically, Iran thinks that the "U.S.-Zionist regime" has blorched things up so badly that the only way it can stick to its plan to realign the region is to is to keep the region in crisis. In order "to reduce pressure on occupying forces and justify its repeated failures in Baghdad," the U.S. and Israel are coordinating military and intelligence actions to exacerbate sectarian tensions.
Key points:
- The US can only maintain its forces in Iraq by continuation of insecurity
- Tehran has good relations with most Shia and Sunni Muslims and Kurd parties of Iraq.
- Iran would benefit from establishment of stability and security in Iraq because any insecurity and instability near Iranian borders impacts its own security and stability.
- The US prepared grounds for presence of Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, in Iraq. Mossad agents are conducting devisive measures in different parts of the country.
- The US provided tens of infrastructural projects of Iraq to Israeli contractors and companies to materialize political goals of the Zionist regime in Iraq and its neighboring states.
- What the US and Zionist regime's media called "Iran's interference in Iraq" are efforts to level accusations against Iran and fan the flames of a religious war in Iraq.
- US accusations of Iran's interference in Iraqi domestic affairs obscure the fact that the political deadend in Iraq and differences between the country's groups are the results of Washington's divisive plan.
