The American administration can't be more stupid than what it is.(*) USA 
claimed that its relations with Iran is very bad.. However on the ground, not 
only they brought Khumaini to power, and assisted Iran during the Iraq - Iran 
war, but it also continuing its handover of Iraq to Iran. The occupants brought 
and relied on Iranians to occupy Iraq. It also stenghtnened the Iranian 
presence and influnce by assisting the pro Iranian military, religious and 
poltical groups, while crusing all the national symbols in religion and 
poltics.  Now Iraq is practicaly  closed to all Arab countries or the outside 
world, however its ties (or obedians ) to Iran has / had no limits. The last of 
which is to allow 2 million Iranians to visit ( or in fact live in) Iraq at a 
rate of 5000 per day, that is on top of the "Iranian business??" men and 
Iranian women?? visting Iraq. Add to that the 4 million Iranians  the occupants 
donated to them Iraqi citizenship. 

The Americans should never expect to run away with flowers and tears after all 
this.
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        [Iraqcrisis] Iran and Iraq working on new tourism deal
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Iran and Iraq working on new tourism deal
By Zaynab Khudair
Azzaman, February 4, 2009

Iran and Iraq are negotiating a new memorandum of understanding that will 
substantially increase the
number of Iranian pilgrims visiting the country.

Tourism and Antiquities Minister Qahtan Abbas is leading the negotiations with 
a visiting Iranian delegation on a deal that will facilitate travel between the 
countries, according to Abdulzahra al-Talaqani, the ministry’s spokesman.

Talaqani said Iraq wanted to increase the number of its pilgrims visiting holy 
sites in Iraq to 5,000 a day from the current 1,500.

The daily visits will be part of the package tours for pilgrimage purposes and 
do not include the flow of other Iranians who travel to Iraq mainly for 
business reasons.

Talaqani said the deal was almost ready and the sides were keen to have it 
signed and implemented the soonest possible.

Iranians are now almost the only tourists visiting Iraq and under the new 
arrangements nearly two million of them will be visiting every year.

It is not clear whether Iraq has the tourist infrastructure in place to handle 
such big numbers.

There is currently a flurry of construction in the religious cities of Karbala 
and Najaf, which are the main target of Iranian tourists.

The construction activities are mainly centered on the building of new hotels 
and other tourist facilities to serve the pilgrims.

Iranians can enter Iran via several border crossings and via almost daily 
flights from Tehran and other Iranian cities to the airports in both Baghdad 
and Najaf.

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2009-02-04\kurd.htm



(*) Or USA has a strtegy diffrent than what its annouces and claims.
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