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Let’s talk Iraq

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l Let us do some fact checking,   Iraq has a population of almost 32,000,000 of which are 67 % Shia Muslims and that translates into the number of over 21,000,000 and of the 32, 000,000 we have 18% Kurdish (non-Arab, racially and culturally more Iranian) population which translates into over 5.5,000,000 and that leaves us with about 5.5,000,000 Arab Sunni Muslims.   Of this mentioned number of 5.5 Mil. Sunni-Arab Iraqis, more than 40% (over 2.2 Mil.) are dispersed around the region and/or inside Iraq, and they have demonstrably nothing to do with the extremism claimed and magnified by the western press. That leaves us 3.3 Mil. Arab Sunni Iraqis of who over 50% are politically passive due to reasons of tribal and regional considerations (anyone who knows of the ABC of that region knows what is meant) that leaves just over 1.5 million “eventually” disgruntled Iraqis that need special attention. (Important note here, do NOT mistake in your calculations and include the...

The New Campaign

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The changing world equilibrium and the obvious problems certain powers are having with Iran, along with their anti Iranian allies and that specially in the last few months, brings inevitably to attention that the Iranian Nuclear case seems to have been chewed through and needs   resolving. But as we move around and change our standpoints, we notice a new agenda on the horizon against Iran and all what is Iranian for whatever reasons… be it regime change or simply irritations or the worst case scenario is,   the hope to disintegrate Iran. (which shall never happen in Iran mind you, but US/UK and Israel seem never tired to promote the cause…. One speculates Scotland to be the Karma thing that might haunt the UK at the end). When you look at the reports on Iran in the sponsored Persian websites of BBC, VOA and Radio Israel… the mention is always of minorities that are under duress or in despair or somehow some monstrosity   that is happening to them in Iran.. be i...