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US/K Losing Iraq War - Iran Emerges as Winner

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Tuesday August 02, 2005 15:23author by redjade Report this post to the editors

RealPolitik played the Iranians may be the real winners

''Last week Iran and Iraq signed an oil deal they hope would pave the way to further diplomatic rapprochement between them. Iraq signed a preliminary agreement to export 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude from the southern city of Basra to Abadan refinery in southwest Iran, a spokeswoman for Iran's oil ministry said.''
a War For Oil played for the advantage of the Axil of Evil
a War For Oil played for the advantage of the Axil of Evil

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Iraq Dances With Iran, While America Seethes

New York Times
http://tinyurl.com/88quq

Donald Rumsfeld, the defense secretary, delivered a blunt message to Iraqi leaders during a visit here last week: the Iraqis would have to be more aggressive in opposing the "harmful" meddling of Iran in this country's affairs before the Americans could consider regional stability assured and the way clear for the United States forces to go home.

It was an argument with a paradox at its heart.

Regaining a semblance of stability here is a goal of both the Iraqi government and the Americans. But the country's elected leadership apparently believes that Iraq's long-term welfare will depend on building a strong relationship with Iran as well as on maintaining ties to the United States. As the Shiite Arab leaders who now hold sway in Baghdad see it, support from their co-religionists in Iran could be decisive in keeping Iraq from slipping further into chaos.

That is clearly not the kind of stability Mr. Rumsfeld has in mind.

The Shiite leaders, though, already draw support from Iran as well as the United States in the face of the deep Sunni Arab resentment that has fed the insurgency here. Their political parties have historically had much stronger ties to Iran than to the United States, which, as they vividly recall, did nothing while Saddam Hussein slaughtered up to 150,000 Shiites who rebelled after the 1991 gulf war.

The Shiite parties also assume that the American enterprise here will probably end as centuries of foreign adventures in this part of the world have - with the imperial nation eventually withdrawing and leaving the region to sort out its own affairs.

Before American forces invaded, some analysts in Washington predicted that Iran would hold little appeal for Iraq's 17 million Shiites because they are Arabs while most of Iran's Shiites are Persians, historical enemies of the Arabs. That view failed to anticipate the depth of tension and violence that have now divided Iraq's Arabs, largely along lines of the two main branches of Islam, Sunni and Shiite. Still, American officials hold to the belief that, in the end, Iraqi nationalism, which Shiites here share, will keep Iraq from being pulled into Iran's orbit.

The reality, however, is that Iraqi leaders, with the encouragement of their Iranian counterparts, are trying to forge stronger bonds with Iran in many spheres, from reconstruction to the writing of the constitution.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Does the US/K prefer exBaathists to the Iranian backed Shia?     redjade    Tue Aug 02, 2005 15:30 
   Chalabi & Iraqi PM visit Iran     redjade    Tue Aug 02, 2005 15:33 
   What the Brits fear most in Iraq     redjade    Tue Aug 02, 2005 15:39 
   Rahul Mahajan: Iran may Train new Irai Military, plus Aid     redjade    Tue Aug 02, 2005 15:46 
   Iraq's Female Majority, to be big loser under proposed Constitution (Iranian Model)     redjade    Tue Aug 02, 2005 16:02 
   'Al- Qaeda is not a problem here. The Iranian revolution is the problem'     redjade    Tue Aug 02, 2005 16:06 
   Posters of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 Iranian revolution     redjade    Tue Aug 02, 2005 17:32 
   Cheney Contingency Plan: Another 9/11...Attack Iran     redjade    Tue Aug 02, 2005 17:38 
   US Lost Nukes in 1991 - Iran May Have Them Now     redjade    Tue Aug 02, 2005 17:41 
 10   The Iran War Buildup - MEK 'Contras' ready for action     redjade    Tue Aug 02, 2005 17:57 
 11   Reinvented, Chalabi back on top     redjade    Wed Aug 03, 2005 14:26 
 12   Iraq to Build Airport With Help From Iran     redjade    Wed Aug 03, 2005 14:37 
 13   Marines Have One of Roughest Jobs in Iraq     Browser    Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:42 
 14   AIPAC former staffers Indicted - Trading in US Secrets about Iran     redjade    Sat Aug 06, 2005 13:34 
 15   The Real Aipac Spy Ring Story - All About Iran     redjade    Sat Aug 06, 2005 13:38 
 16   Israeli Embassy Staff escape questioning - Go home to Israel     redjade    Sat Aug 06, 2005 13:42 
 17   Halliburton Secretly Doing Business with Iran's Nuke Team Member     redjade    Sun Aug 07, 2005 12:36 
 18   Alex Cockburn: Part 2, Broken Arrows and Iran     redjade    Sun Aug 07, 2005 13:06 
 19   Bush Popularity Collapsing in USA     redjade    Sun Aug 07, 2005 14:33 


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