The events in Iraq, regularly reported by the Voice of Islam, are developing in an increasingly interesting way. According to Al-Arabiya, General Hassan Karami, commander of the Iranian Special Forces, announced the deployment of 7,500 men to Iraq and the readiness of another 4,000 reservists with the aim of «protecting Shiite holy sites».
Well, in this regard, let us recall that the same pretext of «protecting Shiite holy sites» was used by the Tehran regime to intervene in Syria to protect the Alawite-Baathist regime of Assad from the uprising of the Muslim majority — the same «Sunni brothers» with whom the Khomeinists hypocritically called for dialogue for decades under the guise of their «convergence of schools of thought» project.
But in Syria, the need to «protect Shiite holy sites» could at least be explained by the threat posed by «Sunni extremists,» «takfiris,» «Wahhabis,» and so on. Who are the Iranian thugs protecting them from in Iraq? From the Shiite rebels?!
In such a situation, we cannot help but take pleasure in schadenfreude. After all, the Shiite part of Iraq is not only the place from which a significant part of the cannon fodder has been supplied to crush the uprising in Syria. It is the place where, by and large, the modern neo-Fatimid project began, when local Shiite forces and Iran took advantage of the American intervention against Saddam Hussein, who relied on Sunni Arabs, to subjugate the country with the tacit approval of the Americans.
In doing so, they demonstrated to the Ummah the worth of all their talk not only about «Shia-Sunni brotherhood» (as they have been doing for centuries), but also about the «fight against American imperialism» to which it must serve. And it was precisely through the subjugation of Iraq that the Shiite hegemonists began to expand further, part of which later became their intervention in Syria and their infiltration into Yemen through the Houthis.
Another historical irony is that none other than Muqtada al-Sadr played a key role in these processes in Iraq at the time with his «Mahdi Army». But then, apparently, «something went wrong». And now, in recent years, he calls for an end to the Iranian intervention in Iraq, the withdrawal of their troops from Syria, the departure of Assad, and even… he travels to Saudi Arabia to seek the support of those terrible, terrible «Wahhabis». And today, according to widespread rumors, he is behind the Shiite protests. The same protests that Iran wants to suppress under the pretext of «protecting Shiite holy sites» from… the charismatic Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr.
Well, in politics there are no permanent enemies or friends, only values (if you have them) and interests. Emotions should not overshadow common sense, and so we wish the Shiite protesters success, because the threat to the Sunnis comes not from them, but from the imperial tentacles that have spread throughout the Middle East, with their head in Tehran. As the Russian proverb goes, those who remember the old will have their eyes open. But it also has an equally important corollary: those who forget will have both eyes closed…
In the photo: members of Shiite armed formations used by the Tehran regime in various conflicts.