MESOP: TODAY’S IRANIAN VOICES ABOUT KERRY’S VISIT

A hard line Javan Online editorial argues, “The goal of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Baghdad is to weaken the resistance (Iraq and Syria) in the Middle East. The Obama administration is under pressure from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey who have no interest in serving the ‘resistance front.’”

A hard line Kahyan editorial asks, “What is the United States after,” and argues that the United States “is simply trying to play have role in shaping regional security dynamics after their defeat in Syria.” The author notes that western analysis is geared towards this outcome because, “Western media continuously warns that ISIS is moving toward Baghdad,” and that “behind the scenes the United States, the Zionist regime, Turkey and Arab countries are dictating the situation.”

According to Mehr News Agency, the chairman of Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Alaeddin Boroujerdi told a group of Basij teachers that ever since Iraq’s most senior Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani “issued a fatwa urging people to take up arms against ISIS, over two million Iraq’s have volunteered to join the army.”

A hard line Javan Online editorial argues, “The goal of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Baghdad is to weaken the resistance (Iraq and Syria) in the Middle East. The Obama administration is under pressure from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey who have no interest in serving the ‘resistance front.’”