Friday, March 24, 2006

Mullahs' secret talks with their Iraqi shock agents

Independent newspaper (London, March 19, 2006) reported that Iranian MOIS agents held secret (no more) talks with their Shiite (Iraqi Badr and Sadr and Lebanese Hezbollah) proxies days before the mullahs announced in a statement to IAEA (March 09, 2006) that they could inflicte "harm and pain" on the United States. Present at this meeting in Tehran, were Moqhtadr Sadr and the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

Now whether this reflects reality or was cooked up to muddy the waters remains to be seen, but what remains true is how the Iranian mullahs are using their sway and influence in Iraq to futher their regional hegemonic agenda and their nuclear strategy. It could be argued that the presence of Nasrallah was intended as a reminder to Israel of the mullahs' considerable influence in Lebanon and the occupied territories.

It is therefore ironic that amid these direct and indirect signals (read threats) by the mullahs, John Sawers, the UK Foreign Office political director, would write a letter to US, France, and German foreign officers a few days ago, suggesting that Iran be offered fresh incentives, if it suspended uranium enrichment activities, and a promise of direct talks with the mullahs. This so-called UK initiative, was followed by another UK official as having said in the Financial Times (March 21, 2006), "... we are not in the business of backsliding and rewarding Iranians for bad behaviour." Really? This UK Official should consult with John Sawers, it appears to us. What do Britains call their fool-headed approach during the last 2-1/2 years, in concert with France and Germany, in pursuing the "diplomatic" track with the terromongers in Tehran? Having British tea? Were they discussing WorldCup soccer with their fellow Cup participants from Tehran? If their appeasement of the mullahs during the EU-3 talks with them is not "rewarding for bad behaviour", we surrounder that we don't know the meaning of the phrase.

Thursday, March 16, 2006

No excuses any more

In the event that there were doubts in any one's mind with regard to the calculus of mullahs' coupled strategy in Iraq and with nuclear weapons, those doubts should have by now evaporated into thin air. Today comes the news (AP, March 16, 2006) that Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, told IRNA that "Tehran was ready to open talks with the United States over Iraq..." Incidently, Larijani is the mullahs' chief nuclear negotiator with the EU-3 and the IAEA. He issued his statement after meeting in a closed session of mullahs' parliament, the majlis. Since, the mullahs' nuclear portfolio was referred to the UNSC on March 8, 2006, more than 85 corposes of executed men- mainly sunnis- have been found in various places in Iraq. All were killed by black-clad militias, or as has been reported, by death squads. According to a report in the New York Times ("Two more bodies were found in Baghdad in sectarian strife", March 15, 2006), the suspicion is centering around the shiite-run Interior Ministry. Iraq's Interior Minister is none other than Bayan Jabr, who lived most of the last 20 years in Iran in exile, as a high-ranking member of the SCIRI, Iran's proxy group in Iraq. To be complete, it was also in the Iraq Interior Ministry, that American soldiers found a few months ago, secret detention and torture centers. Two among the many who were tortured in these chambers were members of the Iranian Opposition group.

The UNSC is deliberating this week as to what to do with Iran's nuclear ambitions. The United States has today placed Iran at the top of its threat list (2006 US National Security Strategy) and the mullahs announce that they want to discuss Iraq! What do you think?

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Mullahs nuclear deterrent in Iraq...

The so-callled Iraq sectarian violence, as it is reported in the media and mouthed by many pols, is all but another Iranian mullahs' bewildering tactic for control OF Iraq. Daily reports of death squads (read Basij militia) rampaging through the cities, abductions, garroted and strangled bodies found in buses and trucks (like yesterday's finding of 15 strangled bodies , are too often common now. The black-clad Basij militias and the Badr and the Sadr organizations have but ensured that intimidation is the rule of the land. This is precisely how it began in Iran after the 1979 revolution, with the initimidation of the opposition groups, abductions, murder, and ...

The Iranian mullahs are tightening the screws in Iraq, in an exact response to last week's referral of Iran's nuclear dossier by the IAEA Board to the UN Security Council. Just as had been predicted and reported in these pages, the mullahs acting in clockworks, have unleashed their dogs in Iraq on the coalition forces and the defenseless people of Iraq. The worsening conditions in Iraq are Iranian mullahs' nuclear deterrent.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Mullahs' nuclear push ...

Today's New York Times Editorial (Iran's Best Friend, March 5, 2006) may be a satirical outlook on the current sorry state of affairs vis-a-vis Iran's desire to have a nuclear weapon and the mullahs' near autonomy in Iraq, but it is accurate to the core. It is also a late (very late) acknowledgment of how the mullahs have been perfecting their latest act. To think, now, and only now, that the events in Iraq and the mullahs' sprint to acquire a nuclear device, are intertwined, is like having been blind, deaf, and anosmic, all of the past few years.

To put it mildly, Iranian shock troops in Iraq, both the Badr and the Sadr militias, have already been at work preparing the sort of environment that their Iranian handlers need, should the mullahs decide to tighten the screws in Iraq, in response to any adverse action by the IAEA Board tomorrow in Vienna. The precision bombing of a Shiite holy shrine in Samarra two weeks ago, regardless of whether one believes that it was an act perpetrated by the Iranian intelligence or not, has cultivated a condition of fear, that thus far, not even two day-curfews, have managed to alleviate. It is precisely the same culture of fear that has sustained the fundamentalist theocracy in power in Iran for more than a quarter of the century .

Then, there is the issue of national supremacy and right that the mullahs claim the Iranians are entitled to with regard to nuclear technology and research. This is misplaced. It is the Iranian national identity that the mullahs have hijacked and now try to exploit in their attempt in regional hegemony. If there is a sense of national unity, and there is, it is desire of the people of Iran to rid themselves of the fundamentalist theo-facisim they encounter daily.

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Mullahs' hands in Iraq ...

Barely a week into the devastation of the Askaria shrine by no-doubt explosive experts- witness how only the dome was
blown away- we hear that Ibrahim al-Jaafari
's tenure as Iraq's first prime minister will be just as short. Of course, we hear that the Kurds and the sunnis are mostly up in arms, following an upsurge in sectarian violence in the past week. They should be. Most of those who perished sensely were sunnis. But, it will not, nor should it, escape attention that the person who will follow Jaafari, should he be sidestepped, is none other than Adel Abdel-Mehdi, the choice candidate of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), Iran's proxy organization in Iraq. Oh, what a little devious act, say bombing a holy shrine, can buy you! In this case, the you in the previous sentence is MOIS, Iran's intelligence organization. So, now hand-in-hand with their brother-in-arms, Iraq President, Jalal Talabani, the mullahs may soon get to form a hand-picked government, a government that would make them proud. Just wait and see!