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A very good article that discusses the danger Trump's attack has put the region in, while emphasising that Soleimani was a psychotic mass murderer with the blood of thousands of Syrians, Iraqis and Iranians on his hands who should not be mourned by human beings. A very strong point that this whipping up of Trump-Khameini, US-Iran warlike confrontation inside occupied Iraq (occupied by both) will have a tendency to sweep aside the mass popular Iraqi uprising we have seen in recent months, directed as it was against the Iraqi rulers, corruption, injustice and both US and Iranian occupation forces; its momentum is getting swept aside by bullshit nationalism and "anti-imperialism" nonsense, bolstering the image of precisely the people like Soleimani and the other Iran-owned sectarian thugs who had just crushed the Iraqi uprising by open slaughter of 500 peaceful protestors (and up to 1500 peaceful protestors murdered in Iranian streets by the same thugs). Let's hope this impact is short-lived. "This is perhaps the most tragic aspect of Trump's assassination of Soleimaini: Despite the US justifying the killing by absurdly claiming it will "deter further Iranian attacks", it could instead reinvigorate Iran in Iraq, at a time when criticism of its grip was gaining momentum through the protests. "The Iraqi protest movement had overwhelmingly disavowed the attack on the US embassy, making clear that the same forces attacking the US embassy were the ones who had attacked them. "Now the line of polarisation risks moving away from the protesters' demands for social justice, to one determined by a renewed pro-Iran/pro-US dichotomy. This time, however, it could lead to outright war – or, at least, a situation where Iran strikes back not directly at the US, but at any force deemed to be supportive of their interests. "Though there's no doubt Tehran is rattled by the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, it seems that once again the demands for Iraqi self-determination are being buried under the interests of foreign powers" https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/Comment/2020/1/3/Soleimani-assassination-spells-trouble-for-Iraqis-Iranians-the-region?fbclid=IwAR0QeycT1WczDymi-MSkhOiMutn4hG0kXmox5BnuCuEYkGgFZY-GzbeRcqg _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
