Why, when Iranian troops crossed the Iraqi border earlier this month to take possession of an Iraqi oil well and raise the Iranian flag, didn’t American forces do something?
That’s the question in the minds of people across the Middle East, and it’s promoting a common Arab conception: that the United States and Persian Iran have been cooperating with one another all along – at the expense of Arabs – and the crisis involving Iran and Saudi Arabia in Yemen only feeds this suspicion.
For Saudi Arabia’s Al Mokhtasar, columnist Dr. Nasir Al Umar writes with obvious exasperation:
It seems that in order to steal more of its oil, the fictitious “Mahdi” decided to emerge from his maze of lies and underground tunnels of faith to plant his heavy feet on Iraq’s wounded ground. It’s a situation that mixes irony and tragedy in equal measure, with the original invaders, the Crusader American military, playing the role of deaf, dumb and blind. Neither its public statements nor its domestic intelligence services saw the obvious Iranian occupation. Somehow, America’s aircraft, which have complete control of Iraq’s skies, can’t spot an armed invasion in the middle of the day.
Uncle Sam only mentioned the invasion after it was exposed by the international media. The invading Crusader continued with his suspicious, cold-blooded talk, and mentioned his “concern” about Iranian “movements”!! With unbounded theatrical grotesqueness, an American official went on to say that the event was an internal matter!! Truly, according to psychiatry, Freudian slips reveal the secrets of the innermost mind. In this case, we have the original invader admitting to the nearly-official hegemony of his supposed enemy. Since when was an invasion by a foreign country an “internal matter?”
If you wish to overlook the wisdom of the foregoing, one might ponder the Security Agreement that the Americans imposed on their followers in Baghdad. This agreement requires the invading Americans to protect the borders, territories, air space and territorial waters of Iraq from any aggression!! How did the agreement evaporate after preoccupying us all for two full years?
By Dr. Nasir Al Umar
Translated By Nicolas Dagher
December 22, 2009
Saudi Arabia – Al Mokhtasar – Original Article (Arabic)
Iranian soldiers have invaded Iraqi territory in broad daylight and occupied the Al Fakkah oil field near the city of Al Amarra. Intelligence infiltration and the blind dependency of those with funny titles in the Green Zone [Iraq officials] on the Mullahs of Qom is no longer enough for the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists [Iran].
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