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BBC NEWS:
Top Iraqi condemns US over Iran
One of Iraq's most powerful Shia politicians has condemned the arrest of Iranians by US forces in Iraq as an attack on the country's sovereignty. The comments by Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, made in a BBC interview, are seen as the strongest expression yet of Iraq's concern about the US approach to Iran. They follow two recent US raids in which Iranians were arrested.The remarks are interesting as Mr Hakim is seen as close to President Bush, says the BBC's Andrew North in Baghdad. Late last year, US troops descended on Mr Hakim's residential compound in Baghdad and detained two Iranian officials. They were later released, but last week, five more were detained at the Iranian liaison office in Irbil. They are still being held. US officials say they are linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard which they allege trains and arms Iraqi insurgents. Iran, which has demanded their immediate release, says they are diplomats engaged in legitimate work. "Regardless of the Iranian position we consider these actions as incorrect," Mr Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, told the BBC. "They represent a kind of attack on Iraq's sovereignty and we hope such things are not repeated." On Sunday, Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said that Iraq needed a constructive relationship with Iran. "We can't change the geographical reality that Iran is our neighbour. This is a delicate balance and we are treading a very thin line." We fully respect the views, policies and strategy of the United States, which is the strongest ally to Iraq, but the Iraqi government has national interests of its own," Mr Zebari said.
Top Iraqi condemns US over Iran
posted by JDAvignon at 8:47 AM
4 Comments:
Shias have their own interests.
Sunnis have their own interests.
Kurds have their own interests.
The US has its own interests.
Iran has its own interests.
Iraq however, does not have its own interests because it probably does not even exist in reality. It is more of an illusion than real.
The President of Iraq is a Kurd. Maybe it is his interest to be imcompetent so the country of Iraq never comes into existence which will allow a Kurdish State to come into existence?
How else can you explain his imcompetence and apathy as his interference with the US trying to clean up the militias and his expressed desire for no more US Troops, etc.
There is one thing that is clear, the fact that there is more we don't know than what we do know, to steal a Rummyism. Also in your statement you make it clear that Iraq is no more. If this is true then why are we so hell bent on creating a democracy in a non-existent state? Is democracy building a front for a more direct US interest? If so than what would this interest be?
Oil.
Of course, but how do you convince a beleaguered public to go along with another Imperial escapade? Lying doesn’t work. Telling the truth doesn’t work. Maybe using a neighboring country as a proxy, say Iraq, it invite an attack from Iran, a neo-con Gulf of Tonkin, if you will.
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