MEMRI Daily: March 25, 2015
Special Dispatch No. 6005
Lebanese MP: We Must Liberate Arab Countries From The Iranian Occupation
In light of Iran’s increasing physical presence and influence in Arab countries, particularly in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen, there has been a proliferation of voices in the anti-Iranian Arab camp arguing that the Iranian presence in those four countries constitutes occupation and that action must be taken to prevent Iran from occupying additional countries.
As evidence, the speakers pointed to a recent statement by Ali Younesi, advisor to Iranian President Hassan Rohani, who said that Iran is an empire and Iraq is its capital (see MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 5991, Advisor To Iranian President Rohani: Iran Is An Empire, Iraq Is Our Capital; We Will Defend All The Peoples Of The Region; Iranian Islam Is Pure Islam – Devoid Of Arabism, Racism, Nationalism, March 9, 2015).
Expressing the fear that Iran will occupy large portions of Arab countries, Lebanese MP Muhammad ‘Abd Al-Latif Kabbara, from the Al-Mustaqbal party which is close to Saudi Arabia, called on the Arabs to give national and pan-Arab priority to liberating Arab countries occupied by Iran – and to make it even more of a priority than fighting the Islamic State (ISIS). In a press statement, Kabbara discussed how all Arabs are hostile to Israel, which occupies a single Arab country (Palestine), but are doing nothing about Iran, which he said has so far occupied four Arab countries. Operations to liberate the Arab countries from Iran should not take the U.S. position into account, he said, because the Arabs could end up paying the price for a U.S.-Iran nuclear agreement.
Muhammad ‘Abd Al-Latif Kabbare (Source: imlebanon.org, March 13, 2015)It should be noted that Khaled Khoja, chairman of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces, also said that the Syrian opposition must now deal not only with the Syrian regime but with an Iranian occupation, and that Bashar Al-Assad has become Iran’s executive manager in Syria.
The following are excerpts from Kabbara’s statement to the press:
The Persian Invasion Of Arab Countries Is Aimed At Reviving The Persian Empire
“Iran has passed the stage in which we [merely] accuse it of occupying Arab territory. It has confirmed what we have warned against, and it brazenly, arrogantly, and boastfully claims to be an empire in the entire Arab East, with Baghdad, not Tehran, as its capital. There is a need for the Arabs to take serious measures in order to confront this occupation…
“There must be serious, practical, and realistic discussion of a plan to liberate the Arab countries occupied by Iran and to stand against its expansionist aspirations, in order to prevent it from occupying more Arab countries.”
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MEMRI TV Clip No. 4843
Sunni And Shi’ite Commentators Clash On TV Over Military Campaign In Tikrit
During an Iraqi TV debate, Sunni and Shi’ite commentators clashed over the role of the Shi’ite Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi militia in the military campaign in Tikrit, in the Salah Al-Din province of Iraq. Participating in the debate were Abu Wareth Al-Musawi, spokesman for the Al-Nujaba Movement, part of Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi, Amman-based Iraqi researcher Dr. Yahya Al-Kubaisi, and Qais Al-Ameri, of the National Iraqi Alliance. After much wrangling between the participants, Al-Kubaisi got up and left the studio in protest. The debate aired on Dijlah TV on March 14, 2015.
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