Basra between Iran – U.S. “carrot and stick” policy

Sig­nif­i­cant event hap­pened today and will draw the map of the com­ing provin­cial elec­tion. Guess who is the only per­son [or party] excluded from today’s meet­ing [in Ara­bic] in Dukan? Yes, Maliki and his Dawa Party.

Invit­ing Al-Hashmi from the Islamic Party means that he is their new ally in the quartet-alliance.

Amir Taheri, [who I dis­agree with most of his arti­cles], got right this time, on the New York Post “

pol­icy with Iran, Jor­dan­ian writer Khu­rais­han went more plain on Al-Quds Al-Arabi today:

Let’s watch this “car­rot and stick” pol­icy in Basra’s “independent-region” votes and see who is going to apply Basra to its own inter­est or who is going to swal­low this bait.