Iran’s conditions to support Maliki

Some infor­ma­tion about the Maliki’s expected visit to Iran next week reported on Al-Khaleej. The news­pa­per revealed that Iran invited Maliki, to be his first stop in his regional tour.

The news­pa­per says that Iran put two con­di­tions to sup­port him: 1) Not sign­ing the long-term secu­rity pres­ence agree­ment with the U.S. 2) To ease the pres­sure on the Shi­ites mili­tias, to keep their strikes against anti-Iranian presence.

The nego­ti­a­tions will be on the polit­i­cal bloc formed by Ja’afari who failed to obtain Sistani’s sup­port because of it is a split will weak­ens the Shi­ite posi­tion. This is the rea­son that Ja’afari went to Qom to get Aya­tol­lah Ali Khamenei’s support.

There is report on Awan (we can call it funny) about thirty stolen armored vehi­cles from the U.S. embassy in Bagh­dad since 2007.

Amer­i­can secu­rity offi­cials con­sider that this peri­odic car-theft is a “major secu­rity flaw” because it is hap­pen­ing inside the “Green Zone”, where secu­rity mea­sures are very high and com­pli­cated. Amer­i­cans fear that the Iraqi resis­tance groups are respon­si­ble for these thefts.