Iraq is turning into an Iranian colony under the Dawa Party
Tuesday, 12 January 2010 00:05
In a hard-hitting article for esteemed US and UK magazine The Week, Ayad Jamal Aldin highlights the weakness of the ruling Dawa Party and reveals the truth of Nouri al-Maliki's willingness to turn a blind eye to the Iranians providing logistical support to terrorists trying to tear Iraq apart.
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Iraq is turning into an Iranian colony
By Ayad Jamal Aldin
The Independent on Sunday
Iran is slowly taking over my country, says the Iraqi opposition politician and Shia cleric Ayad Jamal Aldin. The release of British hostage Peter Moore - kidnapped in Baghdad in May 2007 - is a reminder of the power that Iran now wields over its neighbour. Intelligence sources claim that the Iranian Revolutionary guard was behind Moore's abduction and that he was held in Iran for part of his ordeal. What's more, it seems the price of his freedom was the release from US custody of Qais al-Khazali, a militant Shia cleric backed by Iran. The Foreign Office, which is negotiating for the release of a fifth hostage, is tactfully playing down the link, but Iraqis are all too aware of the "increasing influence of Iran." Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Dawa Party was itself created in Iran - by Iraqi Shias who had fled Saddam Hussein - and it remains loyal to the co-religionist neighbour that gave its leaders sanctuary, turning a blind eye to the fact that Iran is giving logistical support to the terrorists trying to tear our country apart. Tehran clearly hopes that, once US troops have left, a weakened Iraq will become little more than an oil-rich Iranian colony.
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About Ayad Jamal Aldin:
Ayad Jamal Aldin is a Shia cleric, best known for his consistent campaigning for a new, secular Iraq. He first rose to prominence at the Nasiriyah conference in March 2003, shortly before the fall of Saddam, where he called for a state free of religion, the turban and other theological symbols. In 2005, he was elected as one of the 25 MPs on the Iraqi National List, but withdrew in 2009 after becoming disenchanted with Iyad Allawi's overtures to Iran. He wants complete independence from Iranian interference in Iraq. He now leads the Ahrar party for the 2010 election to the Council of Representatives, to clean up corruption and create a strong, secure and liberated Iraq for the future.