Today, Iraq is beset by a belligerent triangle, Iran Majlis' Director General for International Affairs Hossein Sheikholeslam said on Tuesday in reference to the killing of 28 people in a series of bomb attacks that struck predominantly Shia neighborhoods in Baghdad.
“Democracy in Iraq has caused regional kingdoms to feel threatened and, therefore, by hiring part of the Syrian terrorists and sending them to Iraq, they have been trying to foster turmoil and chaos in this country (Iraq),” the official stated.
He also blamed the violence on colonial powers, which seek to continue their military presence in Iraq, and corrupt remnants of the Ba’athist regime of the executed dictator, Saddam Hussein.
Sheikholeslam referred to recent protests in Iraq and differentiated pro-reform demands from protests aimed at toppling the government of democratically-elected Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
“Part of the protests [in Iraq] are subversive in a way and are not legally and morally acceptable, and are void in the eyes of the Iraqi people,” he said.
The Iranian official hailed Maliki for his efforts to reconstruct Iraq after it suffered serious damages under the former dictator Saddam Hussein and as a result of the occupation following the US-led invasion in 2003.
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