PLANTATION IRAQ UNDER THE JOINT LORDSHIP OF THE HARMFUL IDIOTS AND THE IRANIANS: ONE ARAB SUNNI NATIONALIST VIEW.

rough second draft

IRAN NURSES A SHIA-FIRST POLICY IN IRAQ

The Arab Sunnis don’t buy into my theory of the ruse: that Iran through Moqtadha as-Sadr is encouraging the formation of an Arab Sunni-Shia anti colonial front in Iraq. (See the last post.) Haroun Muhammad, writing for al-Quds al-Arabi (“Abdel al-Aziz Tabatabaii [Hakim] in Washington. . .[on a] Dual Mission,” 12/6/07), pokes holes (superficially perhaps) into my theory of the Iranian ruse.

In a nutshell Mr. Muhammad says that Abdel-Aziz Hakim (Tabatabaii–I suspect Mr. Muhammad is using Hakim's Persian name) has been mediating between Washington and Tehran, and that the two -- Washington and Tehran -- are in fact cooperating in Plantation Iraq.

If that’s true (and there is truth to it) then the Sadrist backlash against Iran (refer to this blog’s last post) was genuine. Sadr as an Iraqi nationalist should be rightfully concerned that Hakim, backed by both Iran and the harmful idiots, is working out the plan for Plantation Iraq to remain a plantation.

That may explain the recent accusations by an al-Qaeda spokesman that the Sadr people had been meeting with various Arab Sunni resistance groups (the Islamic Army, chiefly) in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia is the likely chief financial sponsor of the Islamic Army), in Jordan, and currently in Cairo. In other words, Sadr is seeking an alliance with these Arab Sunni forces to thwart the evolving US-Iranian plan for Plantation Iraq.

I'm aware that the choice of the meeting places is also an indication that the harmful idiots are in on it -- that they, too, are encouraging the formation of the patriotic Sunni-Shia front; though theirs is exclusively anti-Iranian. But, for Sadr, I think the front in the end is anti colonialist, period.

Sadr orders his men to freeze operations against US troops not so much to sit in the lap of the harmful idiots, albeit they think he does. He does it to force the issue: If Iran wants to kick out the American colonialists then it should cease it unwavering support of the agents of those colonialists -- the Supreme Council and Dawa -- and weaken as a result Mahdi and Fadhila. Why should he fight the war for Iran? If Iran can live with the colonialists next door and flirt with them through Hakim/Maliki, then be it; so can he. The Iranians in the end should pay the price, not his men. He can put his men on the payroll of the Saudis, be Arab and send anti-Iranian messages (as does Jumblatt in Lebanon) and wait out the American-Iranian colonial valse.

Interestingly, Sadr's choice of meeting places confirms an earlier observation of this blog -- much much earlier -- that Saudi Arabia had dispatched money to him. That money put an abrupt end to his campaign calling for the revival and upkeep of tombs in Saudi Arabia of Shia Imams, these tombs having been destroyed decades ago. That campaign would've incited the Saudi Shia who live mostly in the Eastern Province where most of the Saudi oil is found.

LORD IRAN'S (ACTUAL) STRATEGY IN PLANTATION IRAQ

What's one to believe: Lord Iran as supporter of a Mahdi-Sunni coalition to rid the country of the American colonialists -- super-bases, fortress embassy -- or Iran as Lord of Plantation Iraq in partnership with the American Lords?

The answer lies somewhere in-between. Things are too complex (I hate this word) to lend themselves to a one-time explanation. As illustration of this complexity note for example that if Iran weakens Sadr, it would lose Syria's support and a front nearer Israel. But then Syria would have no one to pay for its weapons from Russia; and so on. (Hence the never-ending, terrific, and intense coordination-by-shuttle between Syria and Iran -- dizzying.)

Lord Iran therefore will go either way and both ways, and will keep all of its options open in Plantation Iraq. Lord Iran will use that plantation to condition the harmful idiots (Hakim as bridge to the harmful idiots and Sadr -- or elements tied to him -- as stick against the same); Lord Iran will use Plantation Iraq to remain needed by the Gulf countries to dissuade them from cooperating fully with the siege laid against it by the harmful idiots; and Lord Iran will use the plantation to remain close to Syria and the Arab Street.

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The harm we have done to that sad (once) Arab country.