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Ayad Jamal Aldin to Evening Standard: Iraq under Maliki has become a client state of Iran
Written by Sarah Sands Tuesday, 15 December 2009 22:42
In an interview with the prominent UK paper, the Evening Standard, Ahrar Party leader Ayad Jamal Aldin cites Maliki's use of an Iranian plane with an Iranian crew for official business as further evidence of how Iraq has become a client state of Iran.
Read the article below:
Will we have to return to Iraq?
The other day, a melancholy but dignified Iraqi politician called Ayad Jamal Aldin came to see me on a round of British newspaper offices.
He is running against Prime Minister Maliki in the spring election, as a secular moderate.
He had been following the Chilcot Inquiry with weary indifference. What is done is done.
The Allies went into Iraq. What matters is the outcome. Aldin claims that the law of unintended consequences is savagely apparent in Iraq.
He says that Iraq is not simply weakened against Iran, it has become its client state. He cites the curiously sinister detail that Maliki travels on official business in an Iranian jet, flown by an Iranian crew.
Aldin further claims that a substantial and increasing number of Iraqi officials are on the payroll of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
Iran looks to America's final withdrawal next August with satisfaction. It talks of the “sunset of America” and the “sunrise of Iran”.
I wonder if the Allied troops preparing theoretically to leave Afghanistan in 2011 will have to divert straight back to Iraq.
The common argument is that Iraq must stagger on its own feet because Afghanistan cannot be allowed to fail. So which should we fear more? The chaotic terrorism of Pakistan or the deadly logic of Iran?