Iran electing Maliki as Iraq’s future prime minister

January 2016

Former Iraqi prime minister Nouri Maliki visited Iran on November 25^th, 2015 and returned to Iraq after staying in Tehran for two weeks. Political, intelligence and military officials in Iran in their meetings with Maliki portrayed his road map for the future of Iraq. What Maliki gained from this visit to Tehran was Iran’s permission for him to seriously begin his political activities for the future elections.

3 Americans abducted by Shiite militias in Iraq, and the probable U.S. response

January 2016

Political dispute is rising in Baghdad over the fate of the Popular Mobilization Force (PMF), including armed Shiite militias formed under a fatwa issued by Shiite Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani in the summer of 2014 to take on the threat of ISIS.

The Middle East and the Iran Tumor

January 2016

In the past 37 years since the regime in Iran rose to power, I can say that the Middle East has been suffering from an intellectual and political tumor spreading its roots each day. The name of this illness is the terrorism cancer. Unfortunately, Western countries, with the United States leading the pack, have for short-term economic interests allowed this regime spread its influence across the region, especially in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Bahrain, Kuwait and others. Parallel to covertly expanding its roots across the Middle East, Iran has been quite busy taking steps towards obtaining nuclear weapons to maybe lift its flag of Islamic empire across the region.

Iran’s line of defense in Iraq’s Diyala Province

January 2016

If we take a look at Iraq’s provinces bordering Iran we come to realize that Diyala is the only province where Sunnis are in majority, of course not considering the Kurds in the north. Therefore, Iran considers its borders with this province as unsafe and senior regime officials and Quds Force commanders have for years been dreaming of implementing plans of religious cleansing in Diyala. From 2003 to this day this province has always been the target of ethnic cleansing.

Iran sanctions relief: stability for the region or more instability?

January 2016

Following the implementation of the nuclear pact between Iran and the United States and European countries, the question is will the Middle East tread towards more stability or further instability?

U.S. President Barack Obama and his nuclear team is currently propagating new and unprecedented measures implemented by the International Atomic Energy Agency to be assured of the Iranian regime not violating the agreements made and becoming certain Iran’s nuclear program will not seek military objectives. They also portray an image as if such monitoring measures have never been adopted to this day.

Iran-backed Shiite militias’ defeats in Syria and the sectarian war in Iraq

January 2016

Prior to the Tikrit operations in Iraq, the Iranian regime attempted to strengthen the structure of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and weaken the Iraqi army to impose its military hegemony in Iraq. The failure of the Quds Force’s military plans in Iraq that led to the PMF being set aside in future operations, the death and wounding of most senior Quds Force commanders in Iraq and Syria, and the formation of the international coalition against ISIS led to the Iranian regime’s decreasing military role in Iraq. The Shiite militias were becoming in Iraq hated more and more by the day, and in line with Iran’s objectives they resorted to sectarian warfare. The high number of Shiite militia casualties in Syria alongside Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) brought major disputes amongst Shiite militias in a way that they no longer have any motive to remain in Syria and they have now resorted to sectarian wars in Iraq.

Iran embassy diplomats in service of terrorism

January 2016

A court order issued against the Abdali terror group has shown that a number of Iranian embassy diplomats in Kuwait have been supporting the members of this cell through providing training and financial aid, along with coordination between the cell members.