Iran analyst criticizes efforts for signing Iraq-US security deal

David Lambeth
December 5, 2008
1:05pm
As a security agreement has been met, now it is time to spark the criticism of the union between United State and Iraqi political leaders. “The new round of debates on the Baghdad-Washington security pact has sparked political tension in Iraq. It comes as Ayatollah Sistani, the grand leader of Iraqi Shi'is, has declared that the government should not succumb to pressure and threat and sign the deal. Even as some Iraqi leaders including Mas'ud Barzani, Barham Salih and Hoshyar Zebari favour signing the deal and their stance contradicts that of the Iraqi people and the Shi'i leadership, we will try to analyze the issue and separate the principal from the secondary issues”. It is accused that The United States’ Under-Secretary of State has delivered a threatening message from President George W. Bush and other republican supporters. It is also claimed that on his last visit to the White House, Iraq's President Jalal Talabani, received an ultimatum that either the security agreement will be signed or the United States will take over the country and seize all of their assets and take all of the country’s oil supply. “But the US is just one side of the story and the other, is Baghdad. One cannot deny that Washington's acts of sabotage destabilize Baghdad but the fact is that the Iraqi government and parliament have the power to stand against America.” “According to the proposed document, America will control Iraq's Ministries of Defence and Interior for 10 years and the price of Iraq's oil will be set according to America's interests. American military bases in Iraq would pose a security threat to Iraq's neighbours, something that countries including the Islamic Republic of Iran and Syria would never accept.” It is my personal opinion that these are not complete and true facts. I think that this is a political ploy like the paparazzi is to Hollywood.