The Bats of Darkness

After dis­trib­ut­ing leaflets warns the Iraqi publics from the “Iran­ian Snakes”, today there are more leaflets warn the pub­lic from the Iran­ian “Bats of Dark­ness” [images are here] say­ing:

Do you allow the Iran­ian intel­li­gence to dom­i­nate your media to serve their evil interests?

The leaflets accuse the Iran­ian embassy in Bagh­dad of brib­ing Iraqi jour­nal­ists, and name few of these media who are already spread­ing Iran­ian pro­pa­ganda, one of the names put in the leaflet if Al-Hakim’s ALfo­rat satel­lite TV channel.

More inter­est­ing is that, Iraqi celebrity poet Sa’adi Yousif accused the Amer­i­cans of the same thing, brib­ing the Iraqi intel­lec­tu­als , and he wrote his arti­cle in a very poetic ver­sion [the poet explained here].

Iraq’s polit­i­cal criteria

Accord­ing to Okaz report, recent Iraqi polit­i­cal mood is based on four points with dif­fer­ent cri­te­ria and priorities:

First — The Iraq — U.S. secu­rity agree­ment is the hot­plate, that moves and redraws par­ties and polit­i­cal blocs alliances.

Sec­ond — The provin­cial elec­tion comes as sec­ond. This elec­tion will decide who will rule Iraq in the com­ing four years.

Third — The for­ma­tion [or restora­tion] of Maliki new gov­ern­ment, an unsolved issue and unex­pected to be solved soon.

Fourth — The for­ma­tion and the emer­gence of the polit­i­cal parties.

Peace­ful resis­tance is hypocrisy

Muq­tada Al-Sadr’s media and infor­ma­tion adviser inter­viewed on Elaph today and this is what he said:

The attempts to crush Al-Sadr Trend gave con­trary results and increased the strength of the move­ment, point­ing out that arm­ing the fac­tions of the Mahdi Army are financed independtly.

In a ques­tion about the rea­son behind Al-Sadr deci­sion to slpit the Mahdi Army

It is a step towards con­fronting for­eign agen­das, and dis­trib­ute the efforts on sev­eral tasks, we believe that resis­tance should start from the nation­al­is­tic sense of the human, and not con­fined to carry arms only, but must include address­ing the occupation’s agen­das cul­tur­ally, eco­nom­icly and polit­i­cally …etc.

With­out usingthe term (peace­ful resis­tance), which we con­sider some kind of polit­i­cal hypocrisy.