The US-Iranian Alliance

Factual findings in the case of the American occupation of Iraq have confirmed the existence of strategic long-term alliances between the United States of America and Iran. The first indicator is the Iranian leadership’s statements that confirm Iran’s actual participation in the occupation of Iraq and in the provision of military and logistical support to the invading American forces from the moment they entered Iraqi soil. I refer you to the statements of Abtahi, the director of the Office of the President of Iran,* and Hashemi Rafsanjani, a Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council, who at the time said shortly during his Friday speech in Tehran, “If it was not for Iran, America would not be able to occupy Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime.”

It is widely known that Iran armed, trained and financed the parties currently in power (in Iraq). Established by the hands of the Revolutionary Guard and Iranian intelligence, they were the acting opposition to the Iraqi regime for thirty years. They participated in the Iran-Iraq War on the Iranian army’s side, and after it ended, they joined the armed militias, flooded Iraq the moment the criminal Bush announced war on Iraq and invaded it fatally. They not only brought in Iran’s armed sectarian militias on the suggestion of the Bush administration and with his consent; but they also sent in the Iranian Quds Force, Revolutionary Guard elements and elements under Qasem Soleimani’s leadership and supervision. This was done in order for them to join American forces and fill the occupation’s pages with the killing, displacement, assassination and imprisonment of millions of Iraq’s honorable sons.

Iranian Quds Force, Revolutionary Guard elements and militias controlled by Iran kept coming and hanging out in Iraq’s provinces. They committed retaliatory criminal acts, like killing army officials, scientists, the country’s symbolic figures like heads of tribes and religious leaders who opposed the American occupation and Iranian presence in Iraq. The militias backed by Iran found their permanent headquarters under the banners of humanitarian and civil society organizations, as well as drug stores, and have obviously been steered from behind the scenes by the Iranian intelligence. All of this has been happening since the beginning of the occupation and in cooperation with the Bush and Obama administrations, American intelligence and successive Iraqi governments.

The U.S.-Iranian alliance has had regional and international dimensions. Looking from the outside, there is a fierce media war, severe threats and strict international economic and military sanctions that the Obama administration is initiating in the U.N. Security Council against Tehran and its military nuclear program, which Iran’s rulers insist on completing despite international sanctions and daily American and Zionist threats. Those who listen to all this say that Israel will hit Tehran tomorrow or in an hour. Only yesterday, there was a fiery statement by Lieberman, the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Zionist entity, that confirmed the nearby implementation of a crushing blow to Iran’s nuclear reactors.

All this is happening in front of the eyes of global public opinion, but it is not at all how things look from the inside. Surely, they contradict it. What confirms our view is the fact that America wants to deceive the whole world, especially the Arab states, and rob them to the greatest extent possible by appearing to be hostile to Iran, while allying with it in reality.

Iran is one of the Axis of Evil countries. It has been developing a military nuclear program, menacing the world’s security. But the complicity of both Bush and his successor Obama, as well as their silence about Iran’s interventions and semi-public military and political influence in Iraq, Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and Kuwait confirm the suspicious alliance.

There are American statements confirming the interventions, complaining about them and warning about Iran filling the vacuum in Iraq, which is just a distortion and camouflage of the facts on the ground. Iran intervenes in these countries by sending missiles, bombs, silencers, light weapons and lot of money, which support its branches there. The source of it is a destructive hostility to the existence of Arab society. Its future is threatened by divisions, fragmentation, weakness in its governments and the change of their sectarian, national and ethnic regimes into cantons in preparation for gaining control over the oil and ensuring the security of the Zionist entity.

The path to it has been prepared by raising sectarian violence between the components of the society. This has been going on in Iraq, Syria, Bahrain, Libya and Yemen. They have been fueled by Iran with all its power through sleeper cells and armed militias, specifically in the Arab Gulf regimes, by destabilizing their security and stability, which will lead to a fragmentation of their social fabric.

It seems to me that the countries in the region, especially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, have understood this game well and realized how dangerous this evil alliance is to the future of the entire region. That is why they rushed to organize meetings and conferences aimed at dismantling and aborting the alliance through the creation of regional alliances to counter it. Americans and Iranians marked it as a Sunni alliance against the Shia in order to widen sectarian profiling and incite others to this approach. The Obama administration supports such a coalition in public and in secret, knowing that only it can ignite a sectarian civil war in the region in which America will be the biggest winner. Meetings of the Gulf Cooperation Council showed that this approach is in defiance of Iran.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s Prime Minister, met with Iraqi parties that have been against Iran’s intervention in Iraqi issues. Erdogan’s visit to Saudi Arabia and his opposition to the U.S.-Iranian alliance are serious indicators of the thwarting of this infernal plan. This is also confirmed by Erdogan’s siding with the Syrian people against the regime allied with Iran and Hezbollah, as well as his embrace of the Syrian opposition’s conferences, conferences organized by Iraqi movements and the personalities opposing Iranian influence in Iraq and the al-Maliki government’s submissive attitude to this influence and to the Iranian jurisprudence.

And so, the U.S.-Iranian alliance has become an undeniable and visible reality imposed on the countries of the region. What has made it visible is the intelligence, military and logistical evidence on the ground. One of the examples is the Obama administration’s silence on Iranian interventionism and obvious military and political influence in Iraq. This is resulting in arrests, explosions and assassinations by the militias armed and financed by Iran, like Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq (League of the Righteous), the Iraqi Hezbollah movement, Al Waad Al Sadiq (True Promise), Iranian Quds Force and others, not to mention their strong political influence on the Iraqi government.

This is no longer a secret to anyone. Even members of the National Alliance speak about it themselves. We can cynically ask why Iran supports the opposition in Bahrain, Yemen or the Iraqi militias, while it fights the Syrian opposition and Syrian people revolting against its regime. At the same time, the Obama administration supports the Syrian people but is against Bahrain’s opposition, backing up the kingdom. Isn’t it a crossword puzzle and a black spot on American policy? Isn’t it a blatant doubleness in international standards and exchange of opinions between America and Iran? How does the world call this doubleness? Isn’t it a kind of insensitive political hypocrisy to hide the alliance and exchange of roles in the region? The aim is always the same – to target Arab society and the region in order to divide and dismantle it into small communities and to loot its economic and oil wealth. So the true reason of the U.S.-Iranian alliance is the absolute dominance over the Middle Eastern region and the establishment of the future American project – the Greater Middle East Project. Will Arabs learn their lesson?

*Translator’s Note: This may be a reference to Mohammad Ali Abtahi, former Iranian Vice President for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs.