The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has accused the United States of scathing the relations between Iran and Iraq.
He has also charged that agents of America and Israel were behind the Iraqi insurgency, according to a state-run Iranian television.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reportedly told the visiting Iraqi President Jalal Talabani that U.S.A. has been damaging the relationship between Iran and Iraq as well as playing off the improvement in relations between the two countries.
But the two countries should resist the damage
- he said.
Khamenei, the key person of Iran’s state affairs, has also blamed U.S. and the Israeli Intelligence for the vehement insurgency that wrecked the neighboring areas of Iraq, according to the report.
The report quotes Talibani as saying that he is keen on improving the relationship between Iran and Iraq.
Iran is skeptical about the United States following a range of procedures. U.S. troops in Iraq is seen by Iran as a threat to Iran’s security. Iran has called for the removal of the U.S. troops from Iraq. On the other hand, Washington has accused Iran of equipping and funding Shiite Muslim militias who are fighting American and Iraqi troops.
A new discussion between Iran and U.S. on Iraqi security would talk place during Talabani’s visit, the Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister Mehdi Mostafavi had said earlier.
Tautness has risen between Iran and the United States since the first round of discussions in Baghdad in May last month. The tension had risen over the issue of Tehran’s detention of four Iranian-American scholars and activists charged with imperiling national security.
The detention of five Iranian officials by U.S. troops in Iraq in January had already enraged Iran. Iran had warned that Washington would “regret” the move.
However, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said that Iran would answer a request for persisting discussions with the U.S. “with a positive point of view.”
It would definitely not be good for the United States to harbor an enemy like Iran when dealing with the Middle East. The repeated allegations by Iran against the U.S. seem to have some ground.
Is U.S. devising a ploy to alienate Iraq and Iran to enjoy an ultimate dictatorship over both the countries?
Via : Yahoo News
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