Sistani mobilizes the UIA to end the dispute with Syria

Prob­a­bly it is part of UIA cam­paign to ridicule and iso­late Maliki, prepar­ing the ground for a new Prime Min­is­ter, Adil Abdul Mahdi rejected the esca­la­tion with Syria and Maliki’s alle­ga­tion of Ba’athists Party involve­ment in last Bagh­dad explosions.

Which is accord­ing Kuwaiti news­pa­per Al-Seyassa, the UIA received the green light from Sis­tani him­self saying:

Sources revealed that Sis­tani received a let­ter from Iran’s supreme cleric Aya­tol­lah Ali Khamenei ask­ing him to inter­vene and put pres­sure on Prime Min­is­ter Nuri al-Maliki to end the dis­pute with Syria.

The sources con­firmed that Iran has begun con­sul­ta­tions with many of the Shi­ite polit­i­cal blocs and reli­gious author­i­ties in the cities of Kar­bala and Najaf, to mobi­lize a polit­i­cal oppo­si­tion front to con­front Maliki against the polit­i­cal esca­la­tion with the Syr­ian leadership.

For­eign Min­is­ter Zebari crit­i­cized Adil Abdul Al-Mahdi’s state­ment and it seems that Zebari is the one behind the “Inter­na­tional Court” threats, which is accord­ing to Al-Watan are not empty threats any­more say­ing that Iraq already con­tracted a con­sult­ing bureau in Wash­ing­ton to file charges accord­ing to the inter­na­tional law.

That explains why the Syr­i­ans are furi­ous today, on the Syr­ian news­pa­per Al-Watan saying:

If Maliki wants to bar­gain on democ­racy and the democ­racy of the occu­pa­tion to keep in his posi­tion [at the head of the Iraqi state], then he must remem­ber that a bar­gain is still a bar­gain, the neo-cons tried it before and failed.

What Zebari’s gains from the escalation?

Some argue that this is a reac­tion for Iraq’s fail­ure to maneu­ver against the UN Arti­cle VII, and another fail­ure against Kuwait’s diplomacy.

Another answer came from a Syria-Kurdish oppo­si­tion Salah Badr Al-Din who wrote an arti­cle say­ing that Syrian-Kurds refuse to be a Tro­jan Horse for Iraq and Iraqi-Kurds, against Syria, which explains the Kurds agenda behind it.

And as for why Maliki accepted the esca­la­tion with Syria? The answer is on this arti­cle reported by Al-Ssiyasi:

Nuri al-Maliki stayed for a long time in Syria and with his close ties to Dam­as­cus, he know the nature of the Syr­ian regime. Syria is will­ing to sac­ri­fice few Iraqi oppo­si­tions, and this is what Syria did before with the Pales­tin­ian factions.

It is not impor­tant for Maliki if the Ba’ath Party involved in the explo­sions or not, but it is an oppor­tu­nity for him to get few oppo­si­tion mem­bers and maybe to help him to get the Sunni votes before the election.