Saudi intelligence: The U.S. presented Iraq to Iran on a golden plate

First of all, please don’t link to Angry Arab’s post about the Saudi King refused to meet Maliki because it is week old news and already reported here.

- Speak­ing in Jordan’s Cen­ter of Strate­gic Stud­ies, Saudi head of the Intel­li­gence ser­vice Turki Al-Faisal said:

Iran as a “paper tiger with claws made of steel, the polit­i­cal sys­tem in Tehran and the Iran­ian lead­er­ship, are weak, but have pow­er­ful tools that can be used to achieve the expan­sion ambi­tious at the expense of Arab and Arab interests.

He added that Wash­ing­ton pre­sented Iraq to Iran on a gold plate to Iran, refer­ring to Iran’s influ­ence in Iraq.
The inter­est­ing part is this:

Explain­ing the weak Saudi role in Iraq he said:

Saudi Ara­bia can play an impor­tant role at the secu­rity level of secu­rity in Iraq, but between 2003 and 2006 Iraq has seen the emer­gence of forces that tried to keep the coun­try out of its pan-Arabism, work­ing to put Iraq under Iran­ian control.

- Iraqi web­site Al-Marsad reported that Ba’ath Party issued a state­ment warns its cells inside Iraq to be in high alert because of the Iraqi police arrests campaign.

But the real state­ment says more than this as we can see the orig­i­nal on Al-Basra:

An Intel­li­gence Ser­vice [of a for­eign coun­try?] cut a deal with Maliki’s gov­ern­ment and deliv­ered the names, sites, cells and orga­ni­za­tions of the Baath Party in Bagh­dad and Mosul.