This is one of the U.S. vs Iran sce­nario, and the recent talks between the U.S. and Baath Party is the miss­ing link behind the polit­i­cal crisis.

His visit to Iraq aimed to ease the ten­sion cre­ated after the exclu­sion of can­di­dates, Biden’s first state­ment: Iraq have right to ban Baath party ~ Kuwait News Agency 22-01-2010.

We can trace the rea­son behind this state­ment ~ Egypt­ian news­pa­per AL-Shrouk 23-01-2010:

Pres­sure from the high­est lev­els in the U.S. admin­is­tra­tion on the Iraqi Gov. to return a fac­tion of the Baath Party to power, the sources said, that the pres­sure came in the con­text of “orders from the U.S.” given to Vice-President Adil Abdul Mehdi, dur­ing his visit last week to Wash­ing­ton, which made Mehdi to head to Tehran shortly after his return from Wash­ing­ton to obtain Iran’s per­mis­sion to aban­don its posi­tion of the exclu­sion of 522 candidates.

Add to the above a report pub­lished ~ Aljazeera 22-01-2010, about meet­ings held between lead­ers of Kur­dish Alliance and the Baath Party revealed by Maliki’s Dawa Party leader “Ali Al-Adeeb, and not denied by Kud­hair Al-Murshdi Baath Party spokesman said:

Maybe there are indi­vid­ual meet­ings between the Baathists and Kurds, both have an old ties of friend­ship, there are a large num­ber of Kur­dish offi­cials in [for­mer] Gov. posi­tions in Bagh­dad and other provinces.

As we say in Ara­bic “a break­ing bones” game between Iran and the U.S.