https://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2017/07/17/ANALYSIS-How-to-protect-Iraq-from-Iranian-influence.html
With the recapturing of
#Mosul, the rein of
#ISIS in northern Iraq is
coming to an end. This, however, can lead to the reemergence of a far
more dangerous threat for the future of this fledgling democracy.
Iran
and its destructive meddling Mesopotamia has devastated this entire
nation, leaving at least tens of thousands killed, scores more wounded,
injured and displaced.
Tehran has
continuously targeted the Sunni community in Iraq and taken advantage of
the war against ISIS to change the very fabric of this minority. Sunni
provinces have been the target of this wrath especially after #Nouri
al-Maliki, described by many as Iran’s puppet in Iraq, reached the
premiership in 2006.
Dark history
Ever
since 2003, with a surge beginning under al-Maliki’s watch, Iran has
flooded its western border neighbor with financial, logistical and
manpower resources, spearheaded by the Revolutionary Guards (#IRGC).
War against ISIS
The defeat of ISIS
must not be considered the end of the nightmare. Far from it. General
Stephen Townsend, commander of the coalition forces against ISIS,
recently emphasized the importance of all Iraqi parties reaching a
political consensus in the post-ISIS stage.
To emphasize his point, Townsend touched on the sensitive topic of Iraqi Sunnis feeling unrepresented in Baghdad.
Former
US defense secretary Ashton Carter, who supervised the anti-ISIS effort
from early 2015 to January of this year, underscored “chaos and
extremism” will follow if the “political and economic campaigns that
must follow” fail to render the results needed for Iraq future’s.
The hidden occupation
On
a side-note, the internal sectarian drives in #Iraq are not be
considered the result of an especially bloody history. Iraq’s
conglomerate of communities experienced peaceful coexistence for over a
millennium.
In a
recent speech, Iranian opposition leader
#Maryam Rajavi highlighted how Iran has for 38 years been at war with Iraq and other nations in the region and beyond.
She
underscored, “…the ultimate solution to the crisis in the region and to
confronting groups like ISIS lies in the overthrow of the Iranian
regime by the Iranian people and it's Resistance.” That seems to be the
only way to protect Iraq from #Iran.
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