Foreign Embassies ‘Stirring Up’ Situation in Iraq: UK Analyst

TEHRAN  – A political analyst from London said the embassies of the US and UK in Baghdad are taking advantage of Iraq’s poor economic conditions following the defeat of Daesh by “deliberately stirring up trouble” in the Arab country.

“If there are insufficient jobs, there must be some form of basic income. Yes, the foreign embassies -- US, UK and the Netherlands-- are deliberately stirring up trouble but that is always easy to do when people are economically insecure. Also all American, British and Israeli forces should be kicked out,” Rodney Shakespeare told Tasnim when asked about the reason behind recent sporadic unrest in Iraq that has led to several casualties.

Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi on Thursday expressed regret that the ongoing protests have become violent, saying he is ready to meet with representatives of the protesters to discuss their demands.

Speaking on Thursday night, the Iraqi prime minister said certain elements have been able to derail the protests from their peaceful path.

The unrest comes as millions of pilgrims are preparing to travel to the Iraqi holy cities of Najaf and Karbala to attend Arbaeen, marking the fortieth day after the martyrdom of their third Imam, Hussein ibn Ali (AS).

U.S. Shifting to Political Rather Than Military Divide-and-Conquer Strategy

Kevin Barret, an author, and analyst from Madison, also told Tasnim that “as Iraq grows more stable and confident, and gets its finances and infrastructure rebuilt, it grows more and more potentially independent.”

He added that an “independent Iraq will inevitably lean towards or join the Axis of Resistance to imperialism and Zionism, for two reasons: First, the Shiite-majority population of Iraq has obvious affinities with other members of the Axis of Resistance; and second and most importantly, if Iraq wants to return to the path of using its resources to benefit its population, it will ultimately need to help eject parasitical outsiders from the region. And the only group of countries that is working toward that end, rather than cooperating with the invaders, occupiers, and plunderers, is the Axis of Resistance.”

“The US-led, Zionist-instigated war on Iraq was designed to cripple and destabilize that country. The invaders pretend to fight terrorism. They pretend to be working to stabilize the situation. But even as one side of the US-led Occupation helped the Iraqi government fight takfiri terrorists, the other side was sponsoring terrorism. Today, they seem to be shifting to a political rather than military divide-and-conquer strategy, by sponsoring color revolution style protests designed to keep Iraq unstable and unable to take its place as a genuinely independent country working towards full regional independence,” Barret said.

U.S., Other Western Spy Agencies Have Long History of Interfering in Domestic Affairs of Nations

Dennis Etler, political analyst and a former professor of anthropology based in California, said the US and other Western intelligence services have a “long history of interfering in the domestic affairs of nations” they wish to control by fomenting anti-government protests. They try to destabilize targeted countries in the hope of advancing their own agenda in regions where they wish to assert or maintain political influence”.

He further told Tasnim that Iran has recently pledged to further support Iraq's reconstruction after the defeat of Daesh and the US and its allies want to disrupt these friendly relations and the recent riots can be seen as an attempt to sabotage Iraq's attempts at reconstruction.

“A failed Iraqi state serves the interests of US imperialism in its attempts to contain Iran's influence in the region,” he said.

(Source: Tasnim) 

The Axis of Evil: USA, Israel, Saudi Arabia

By Prof. Rodney Shakespeare

These three – USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia – who are Evil Incarnate, are behind the heart-eaters, the throat-slitters, the gas chokers and head-choppers of the Jabhat al Nusra, Wahhabi, Salafists and Takfiri in Syria. They are behind the Egyptian military which, in one day, has slaughtered well over six hundred people. (O wonderful Egyptian soldiers!) They are behind the destruction and creeping genocide of Palestine and they are behind yesterday’s bombing in Beirut.” Related Interviews: ‘Egypt will never benefit from Al Saud’ ‘Saudis trouble region to serve masters’ Is there any limit to the devilry of the Axis of Evil? Could Satan do more? For cruelty, deception, viciousness, egregious hypocrisy and world-scale destructiveness, the Axis will soon be beating anything else in history. The Axis consists of the USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia. It is now right out there, in the open, for all to see, and their evil intent, and the evil they are doing, cannot be denied. In your mind, go back twelve years when every sane person knows that the 9/11 attack on the New York World Trade Center was helped along by the CIA and Mossad to become something on the grand scale. There are about ninety evidential aspects which confirm this but most people know that just one - the sudden collapse into powder of a building, Tower Number Seven, which was NOT struck by an airplane - is the tell-tale evidence that 9/11 was an inside job. Don’t forget that the collapse of Tower Number Seven was announced half an hour BEFORE it actually happened. The BBC announcer was reading from a specially prepared piece of paper and it got read out half an hour BEFORE it was supposed to be read out! But the real ‘smoking gun’ information about 9/11 came ten days LATER when General Wesley Clark was visiting the Pentagon. General Clark was the recently retired,4-star US Army general, who was the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO during the 1999 War on Yugoslavia. You don’t get much higher than that. And, because he had had high command, he was told the truth - 9/11 was only the hors d’oeuvres. The main meal would be coming in the years ahead and the Pentagon spelt it out - “We’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” 9/11 was done by the USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Iraq was done, and is being done, bythe USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia. And Libya and Somalia and Sudan have been, or are being done, as is Lebanon. Furthermore, when the opportunity arises, another country gets done by the Axis and that’s what’s happening with Egypt. And they are bragging that they are friends with each other! The USA is friends with Saudi Arabia which is friends with Israel which is, not just friends, but the controller of the USA. There’s a big reason for this. In the USA somewhere between fifty and sixty million Americans are Christian Zionists who not only support Israel but positively want Israel to precipitate a huge war in the Middle East. If this happens, they think, God will waft them up to Heaven - you can’t make up this sort of thing, can you? But it’s true. These three - USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia - who are Evil Incarnate, are behind the heart-eaters, the throat-slitters, the gas chokers and head-choppers of the Jabhat al Nusra, Wahhabi, Salafists and Takfiri in Syria. They are behind the Egyptian military which, in one day, has slaughtered well over six hundred people. (O wonderful Egyptian soldiers!) They are behind the destruction and creeping genocide of Palestine and they are behind yesterday’s bombing in Beirut. Decent people should realize that it’s not just a bit of torturing and assassinations that they’re up to; it’s not just continual bombing that they’re up to; it’s not just wholesale spying and the complete and absolute control of their own, and other populations, that they’re up to; and it’s not just the wholesale smashing of countries, one by one, that they’re up to. It’s worse than that - perverted lunatics that they are, they are trying to ignite world-wide war. Of course they lie about it, as they lie about everything. Christopher Hill, former USA ambassador to Iraq, said that Saudi Arabia was fomenting sectarian violence. What a liar! Yes, Saudi Arabia was fomenting violence but he said that to hide the fact that the USA and Israel were also fomenting the violence in Iraq, and they still are because all three of them want to smash Iraq apart. In July there were one thousand killed and thousands wounded in the month of July alone and now you know why. And it’s the same with Egypt - the USA is backing the military junta which has slaughtered seven hundred (or much more) unarmed people in one day. How brave! The Americans and Israelis must be really proud of themselves - it normally takes at least a month to get that sort of score. The USA has been up to this sort of thing for decades. It’s not just at war every year; it’s in continual partnership with terrorists. War and terrorists, one way or another, the West has murdered, at a minimum, twenty five million people since World War Two. Well done, the Axis of Evil! But they are not just the Axis of Evil. They are becoming something else as well -pariahs, as they’ll find out one day when even their best friends will buck up the courage to tell them…

Prof. Rodney Shakespeare is a visiting Professor of Binary Economics at Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia. He is a Cambridge MA, a qualified UK Barrister, a co-founder of the Global Justice Movement www.globaljusticemovement.net, a member of the Christian Council for Monetary Justice.