HINTS

second draft.

I had been surprised by the tame Iranian response, even congratulatory of the Maliki government, towards the agreement signed by that government with the harmful idiot occupation authorities. In contrast, Syria had been clear about its opposition. And perhaps Syria’s clarity explains Iran’s recent (albeit still relatively soft) volte-face. Choreographed? Iran’s response went from tame and congratulatory to one where it dispatched displeasure, and with that clear hints to the Iraqi Parliament of at least two specific objections.

The new Iranian position was enunciated by Ali Larijani on two occasions. Larijani gave the following two hints to the Iraqi parliament:

1 -- that the duration of occupation conceded to the harmful idiots in the agreement (up to the end of 2011) was too long; and

2 -- that there’s confusion about the jurisdiction over occupation troops by the Iraqi government, and that this confusion should result in problems in the future.

Larijani referred to the “fact” that the Iraqi people were "conscious" and “alert.” (My translation from Arabic.) In tandem with one Iranian editorial I read (Nuaimi's), this could be a reference to the need to keep an eye open to the likely ruses which the Axis of Occupation and New Colonialism (the harmful idiots and their Israel) would be setting up for the Islamic Republic, via Iraq.

Larijani, on a second occasion, from Qum, ripped into the Saudi ruling elite’s (my words) process of normalizing relations with Israel using the idiotic ruse (my words) of the “inter-faith” conference. He seemed to be shaming them for having stood behind Israel in the July 2006 "New Middle East" (the words of the September 11Queen) mass murder assault on Lebanon, and their outright hugging of Israel at the "inter-faith" conference.

PLAYING BOTH ENDS OF THE FIELD -- UNTIL SUCH TIME . . .

But paralleling Larijani’s criticism was an announcement by the Iranian Ambassador to Riyadh in which he said that a conference among the ulamas of both countries was in the offing. In other words, the Saudi ruling elite is now playing both ends of the field: the end of the Axis of Occupation and New Colonialism (the harmful idiots and their Israel) and the end of the Axis of Resistance to the Axis of Occupation and New Colonialism (Iran, Syria, Hamas, and the Arab Street.) The latter game, I'm confident, is only a facade until such time when the harmful idiots and their Israel are back on their feet -- are out of the financial disaster their war-without-taxation (or, more precisely, in concert with a huge tax cut!) had in part set off. Hence, likely, Larijani's reference to the need for "alertness."

No one any longer's gonna fall into the trap, and for the ruses, set up by Kuwait and the harmful idiots for Arab Iraq, the same trap in which we have fallen.