Zafir al-Ani: Iran’s Foreign Minister’s visit to Baghdad challenges the will of Iraqi people

 NCRI, 12 May 2011 – Zafir al-Ani, one of al-Iraqia coalition leaders and the Secretary General of the Iraqi Future Assembly said: The visit to Baghdad by the Foreign Minister of Iran is to challenge the will of the Iraqi people who are angered by the revealed interventions of the Iranian regime in the Iraqi affaires, especially interventions in the security cases and political decisions.
Al-Ani added: We warn the Iraqi government of collaboration with and acquiescing to the dictated policies of the Iranian regime, and ask the relevant political institutions to inform the people of Iraq of the goals and dimensions of Salehi’s visit to Baghdad with complete transparency.
 
Indicating the obstructionism of high ranking Iraqi officials in relations with the Arab countries yet affording the Iranian regime an open hand to trample upon national interests of Iraq, al-Ani said: The angry people of Iraq in all cities expect the Iraqi officials to repeat what people say: Salehi, Out, Out, in order for Baghdad to remain free.
On the same subject, the Council of the Sheikhs of the tribes of Baghdad warned in a statement that the Iranian regime’s Foreign Minister’s trip to our country has no goals other than fulfilling the malicious intentions of the Iranian regime.
The Iraqi people who have bloody experiences with the Iranian regime’s visits to Iraq have no doubt that after the killings of April 8 against Iranian dissidents Mojahedin by al-Maliki’s forces on behest of the Iranian regime, now this minister has come to Iraq to prepare the grounds for more bloodshed and massacre. Therefore, we condemn this visit which is nothing but fulfilling the malicious wishes of the Iranian regime, and announce that we are against this visit and want the Iranian interventions in Iraq to stop.