“…for the last forty years, our thought has been trapped in hollow structures of language, a stale, dead but immensely successful rhetoric. This has represented, in my view, a defeat of the intelligence and of the will.” — Harold Pinter
…Mosaic Tells Us Why. ‘This week’s Mosaic Intelligence Report from Link TV takes a look at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Iraq, where he was greeted with smiles and red carpets, and explains how Ahmadinejad has “outmaneuvered” President Bush everywhere in the Middle East (except Israel).’
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March 9, 2008 at 12:08 am
He was greeted by the Iranian vichy government, installed by the allies-U.S and Iran! All the resistance factions including the shiite clans from the south, rejected and cpondemened the visit of the prsident of Iranian enemy to the Arab Iraq.
It is a provocation to niot just Iraq but all Arabs to see that Iranian entering Iraq after all what the Iraqi martyrs had done in the 8 years war of defence against the Iranian demagogues
March 9, 2008 at 4:34 am
Shareef - sorry to spoil your fantasy, but it was Saddam Hussain who invaded Iran on Western orders with Gulf money. Iran is not perfect, and like any big state it cares about its own interests, but it has always been Iraq’s neighbour and always will be. It is in the benefit of noth countries to work together.
March 9, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Qunfuz
The war on Iran was self defence. The demagogues in Qum were calling for exporting the revolution, and they cracked down on Arab nationalism. Cutting the hands of Iran off Iraq was a must to secure the massive priogress and dsevelopment in Iraq. At the present, there is no way out of Iraq’s mess except by Arabs putting up a solid united front that trunkates the Iranian malicious, unwanted and very unwelcome presence in Iraq.
“Iran is a big state”
That is a very wild fanatcy. Remember what happened to the big state in 1988:). Secondly, Iraq is an Arab country it belongs to the Arab league, as far as I see it Arabs don’t want to have anything to do with Iran. It is Iran that is imposing itself and its medieval ideas on Iraq. That in turn will fuel a second Arab Iranian war. This time it will be assured that Iran will forget about the Arab world for eternity.
Big state LOL
March 9, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Iran is the only Muslim state that seems to have spine and has the guts to stand up for its beliefs. Iran is a ray of hope in the midst of the medieval arab world. The only democracy in a neghbourhood thats swarmed with petty dictators or clownish monarchs.
Iran Rocks.
March 10, 2008 at 5:28 am
What happened to Iran in 88? I hope you’re not trying to say that Iraq won a victory? Iraq lost hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of dollars that could have been spent on development. It didn’t ‘liberate’ the Arab areas of Iran. All this despite huge amounts of military, financial and political support from the West and the Gulf.
You say, with the Western media, that Iran is medieval. Have you been? It is far more developed than Arab countries, and has something resembling a democracy. People openly criticise the governemnt, which tells us two things: yes, the regime is by no means perfect, and there is far more freedom of speech there than in the Arab world. And almost everybody reads a lot. Plus, I agree with Pak: Iran has spine.
I am an Arab from a Sunni family, but I don’t recognise your claim that the Arabs want nothing to do with Iran. Most of the Arabs I know admire Iran a great deal.
I am sure that Iran is backing its friends in Iraq, just as the US and the Saudis and Turks are backing theirs. But we should understand this in a calm and realistic way so as to deal with our real enemies and protect our rights; we should try to cure ourselves of sectarianism and infantile forms of nationalism which only serve our enemies’ ‘divide and rule’ agenda.
March 11, 2008 at 1:50 pm
This just proves once again how the Iranian goverment is allied to US and are both working to destroy and take away peace from all the Arab states, the only way that the president of Iran could have steped into Iran and left safe was with US help.. Iran along with Syria are working for the benefit of the US and israel which in return gives resistance groups a bad image around the world and thus a lot of the international support has been lost, the only people loosing out of these conflicts are the Iraquis, Lebanese, and of course the poor Palestinians who’s lives couldn’t be worse that they are right now.