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. Table of contents: 1. [Iraqcrisis] Iran and Iraq working on new tourism deal - <[email protected]> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- End of digest for list iraqcrisis - Wed, 04 Feb 2009 hasEML = true; Forwarded Message: [Iraqcrisis] Iran and Iraq working on new tourism deal [Iraqcrisis] Iran and Iraq working on new tourism deal Wednesday, February 4, 2009 8:13 AM From: [email protected] To: [email protected] 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. ======= S1000+ ======= --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World-thread" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/world-thread?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
