Iran Plans Mutually With America Attacks on Other Countries Too

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Afghanistan, America, Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq, Qassem Suleimani, Qods Force, Quds Force, Revolutionary Guards, Ryan Crocker

Photo: Jihad Mughniyeh (Son of former Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh) behind Qassem Suleimani in a recent public event (funeral of Suleimani’s mother).

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A recent outstanding piece in The New Yorker by the respected Dexter Filkins, which I have just managed to read due to its length, has focused the attention again on Qassem Suleimani the Head of the Iranian Quds Force.

Suleimani is described as the most powerful operative in the Middle East. With his lead of the Quds Force, he is responsible for the “special operations” of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. In other words, shaping, if not leading the Iranian foreign policy on the ground.

In our immediate regional vicinity, that means he is the architect of Hezbollah in Lebanon (and beyond), the maestro of the post-war Iraqi chaos with the US and more recently the implementer of the Iranian backup to Syria’s Assad regime in crushing the 2011 peaceful protests, then their involvement in the follow-on civil war.

What is fascinating in “The Shadow Commander” among other tips is its reveal of the American contacts with hardliner Qassem Suleimani on many occasions mainly on Afghanistan and Iraq:

Spreading American Democracy [Photo]

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American Occupation, Iraq, Photo, United Nations, US

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In Iraq, you can easily earn money by spying on your people, also known as spreading democracy.

Above is an old photo for a British military vehicle with a poster ‘you can get some money, in exchange for some information’.

Seems the British army deals with dollars too, or with others’ dollars.

Source: @IraqiBlogger

American media spin on Iran: who is the threat to whom?

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George W Bush, Iran, Iraq, Propaganda, Richard Gizbert, Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair, United States, Weapon of mass destruction, YouTube

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In whatever way I try to read some Western commentary on Iran’s nuclear issue, I see Saddam Hussein, his Weapons of mass destruction programme (WMD) and the spin around it by George Bush and his administration.

Who is the father of the Arab Spring?

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arab spring, Chart, Egypt, Foreign Policy, Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq, Islam, March 14, Osama Bin Laden, Saad Hariri, United States

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Mohamad Bouazizi! – a straight forward answer.

Ok, on a more serious note, what’s pushing all these masses to be on the streets? Since the start of the so called ‘Arab Spring’ less than 5 months ago, all analysts have been looking to study the involvement of the Islamic movements (or other ideologies).

This interest spiked after Osama Bin Laden’s death last week, with majority looking to assess its impact on the uprisings (I can even tell from the search engines hits on my previous first Bin Laden post!)

Moreover, many political parties claimed their fatherhood to the freedom demanding protests. Al-Qaeda claimed that the uprisings were the fruits of their struggle against America and the Arab regimes.

The Americans (likely to be Republicans) said that the uprisings were the results of what George W. Bush started in his Iraq invasion in 2003!