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Scott Sullivan :
Iran escalates separatist pressure on Iraq
Iran is escalating pressure against Iraq to hand over the eastern third of
Iraq including oil-rich Basra to Iran. Iran's political puppet and Quisling
in Iraq Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leder of the SCIRI party, has pushed through
Iraq's parliament a measure that opens the way to a partition of Iran. This
measure would permit passage of a pro-partition measure through parliament
as early as October, although actual implementation, in theory, would not
take place for two years.This Iranian-sponsored proposal is an open invitation for Iranian
involvement in Iraq's internal affairs, via support for the Kurds, al-Qaeda,
Hakim, and the SCIRI. What it worse, it provides an incentive for all those
who favor Iraq's partition - Iran, al-Qaeda, and the Kurds - to escalate the
sectarian attacks leading to civil war. Once full-scale civil war arrives,
which could be a matter of weeks, according to current trends, as confirmed
by US intelligence reports, the pro-Iranian separatists will win the day,
and the two year delay of autonomy implementation will be erased.Thus, Iraq's parliamentary agreement on the autonomy measure does not avoid
the partition crisis, as insisted by the US and Iranian media, who want to
see Iraq broken up and turned into a colony of Iran. This autonomy
agreement brings on the crisis.It is important to recognize that only one major party in Iraq, aside from
the Kurds, wants to see eastern Iraq handed over to Iran - the SCIRI and
Hakim. This SCIRI is not a legitimate political party. It is an Iranian
party that has power today because it is supported by Iran and the US. In
the same way, Hakim is not an Iraqi, he is an Iranian with an Iraqi
passport.Prime Minister al-Maliki should take the following decisive actions.
First, PM al-Maliki should inform Iraq's parliament that it has weakened
Iraq's security and helped Iran by passing the autonomy measure.Second, PM al-Maliki should tell Hakim and the SCIRI that as far as the
office of Iraq's president is concerned, no part of Iraq, without exception,
will ever be turned over to a foreign state.Third, PM al-Maliki should warn the Iraqi Kurds that they are playing with
fire by supporting Iranian and al-Qaeda expansionism.Fourth, PM al-Maliki should remind Iranian president Ahmadinejad that Iraq
is not part of Iran's family, as Ahmadinejad likes to say. Iraq has its own
family of Shia, Sunnis, and Kurds.Fifth, PM al-Maliki should remind all of Iraq's neighbors that their own
security is at stake in protecting Iraq's territorial integrity. PM
al-Maliki should call upon Iraq's neighbors to announce support for Iraq's
existing borders without reservation, and to enter into a regional
collective security agreement to this effect.Sixth, PM al-Maliki should call upon the UNSC to rebuke Iran for its
aggression against Iraq, and especially Iran's ongoing effort to partition
Iraq.Seventh, and most importantly, PM a;-Maliki should call upon Ambassador
Khalilzad and the US to oppose Iran's efforts to partition Iraq. If the US
will not oppose Iran, ask the US to consider an early withdrawal of its
forces so that Iraq can better defend itself, moving to a war of national
liberation if necessary.
Scott Sullivan is a former Washington government employee. Petroleumworld not necessarily share these views.
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