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U.S. Ambassador: Iran Inciting Iraq Attacks

Posted on Aug 12, 2006

“Iran is pressing Shiite militias here to step up attacks against the American-led forces in retaliation for the Israeli assault on Lebanon, the American ambassador to Iraq said Friday,” according to the N.Y. Times.

It remains to be seen whether the looming peace deal between Israel and Hezbollah will blunt Iran’s alleged fomentation of violence.

N.Y. Times:

Iran is pressing Shiite militias here to step up attacks against the American-led forces in retaliation for the Israeli assault on Lebanon, the American ambassador to Iraq said Friday. Iran may foment even more violence as it faces off with the United States and United Nations over its nuclear program in the coming weeks, he added.

The Iranian incitement has led to a surge in mortar and rocket attacks on the fortified Green Zone, said the ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad.

The four-square-mile Green Zone, protected by layers of concrete blast walls and concertina wire on the west bank of the Tigris River here, encloses baroque palaces built by Saddam Hussein that now house the seat of the Iraqi government and the American Embassy.

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By Geronimo, August 13, 2006 at 4:07 pm #
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The ambassador’s got it backward. It’s the American-Israeli axis that’s inciting Iraqi resistance. Not only Iraqi resistance, but Lebanese, Palestinian, the entire Arab-Islamic world. If the ambasador really was concerned about all these attacks, he’d be advising our government to get out of Iraq now and to come out in favor of justice for the Palestinian people. Immediately these attacks that he’s attributing to Iran will decrease if not completely stop. Why doesn’t the ambassador do this? Empire, that’s why. .

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By Manny, August 12, 2006 at 11:29 pm #
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How is it possible that the U.S. Ambassador can claim Iran is behide the attacks if he can not give us any proof. Sounds like another tall tale from the folks that gave us the weapons of mass destruction.

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By Spinoza, August 12, 2006 at 5:09 pm #
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This is idiotic, would anyone believe that Iran would have to be involved in stirring up anti USAIsrael sentiment anywhere in the Arab world? The Shia hate IsraelUsa as much as any Muslim. There are Muslims all over the world mobilizing to fight the USAIsreal.

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