USADI Dispatch

A publication of the U.S. Alliance for Democratic Iran


Volume III, No. 17                                                                                                                                         November 28, 2006


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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