Fox News Live
July 27, 2004
Iran Has Taken Over Iraq’s
Border Positions
We‘re
asking Fox foreign affair analyst, Alireza Jafarzadeh. He spent
years uncovering
Alireza Jafarzadeh: Thank you, Greg.
Gregg Jarrett: Do you think it is true?
Alireza Jafarzadeh: It certainly is true Greg. This
is what I have been talking about for months. I think it is long overdue. It is
good that Iraqi’s officials are showing the courage to talk about what
Gregg Jarrett: And one was caught hundred mile down south of Baghdad, I want to quote if I can the response to that bit of news by the Iraqi Defense Minister, and I don’t understand this “we can send the death to Tehran’s streets, like they do to us, but we can’t do it if we are a democracy. But if my people say do it now, I will do it “. Now that is troubling what does it mean exactly?
Alireza Jafarzadeh: Well, first of all it means that Iran pursue a two pronged strategy regarding Iraq, first they do every thing possible to destabilize the country to incite violence which would pave the way for the more radical factions to gain the upper hand so in the future political process it is the radicals who take control of the situation, As far as Iraq’s Defense Minister position is concerned, I think what he means is that “look we are not weak, we are not helpless, there are so many things that we can do …
Gregg Jarrett: Like what? I have been there, they look rather helpless, I got to tell you.
Alireza Jafarzadeh: There are troubles there. And troubles are coming from
Gregg Jarrett: I kind of thought when I read that statement that he’s saying if you poison our people we are going to poison yours, and I immediately thought does this guy knows where the bio-chem weapons are stored? Probably not.
Alireza Jafarzadeh: Probably not.
Gregg Jarrett: A quick question, Moqtada
Al-Sader: Is he in the pocket of
Alireza Jafarzadeh: Ok, let me put it to you this way. Tehran plays its cards in parallel, they have a number of groups including, you mention him but not limited to him, certainly the kind of violence that was going on around him helped Tehran to better consolidate its position, but they have a number of other groups, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution of Iraq; they have Badr brigade; they have created new groups such as Hezbollah, the fifteenth Shaaban group, the Sayyed ol-Shohada group, they are funding them. On a monthly basis, they are paying salaries to them.
Gregg Jarrett:
Alireza Jafarzadeh: Thank you Gregg, always a pleasure.
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