The Independent<\/em>, que l’intervention des USA contre des Iraniens en Irak, en janvier, a \u00e9t\u00e9 un \u00e9l\u00e9ment d\u00e9terminant de durcissement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abAt 3am on 11 January US military forces raided the Iranian liaison office in the Kurdish capital Arbil and detained five Iranian officials who are still prisoners.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe attack marked a significant escalation in the confrontation between the US and Iran.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBritain is inevitably involved in this as America’s only important foreign ally in Iraq. In fact the US raid could have had even more significant consequences if the Americans had captured the Iranian official they were targeting. Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff of the Kurdish president Massoud Barzani, told The Independent that they were after Mohammed Jafari, the deputy chairman of Iran’s National Security Council.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIt is a measure of the difficulty America has in getting its close allies in Iraq, notably the Kurds, to join it in confronting Iran that Mr Jafari was in Arbil as part of an Iranian delegation. He had just visited Mr Barzani in his mountain-top headquarters at Salahudin and earlier he met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in Dokan in eastern Kurdistan.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tL’article de Cockburn est int\u00e9ressant parce qu’il met en \u00e9vidence combien la majorit\u00e9 des factions et communaut\u00e9s irakiennes, pr\u00e9tendument lib\u00e9r\u00e9es par les USA, est hostile \u00e0 un conflit avec l’Iran. (Le cas des Kurdes, en principe les plus proches des USA, est extr\u00eamement int\u00e9ressant.) Alors qu’il semble dire qu’une attaque US contre l’Iran aurait un certain soutien international (ce qui nous para\u00eet extr\u00eamement contestable), Cockburn observe combien ce soutien serait au contraire tr\u00e8s faible en l’Irak.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abInside Iraq, confrontation with Iran does not make much political sense. All America’s allies in Iraq have close ties with Iran. The only anti-Iranian community in Iraq is the five million Sunni who have been fighting the US for the past four years.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe US raid on Arbil in January would have had far more serious consequences if Mr Jafari had been abducted. As it was, the seizure of five Iranian officials seems to have set the scene for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards seizing 15 British sailors and marines.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 26 mars 2007 \u00e0 09H45<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Les Britanniques sont-ils pris au pi\u00e8ge de leur alliance avec les USA dans l’affaire des 15 marins et Marines britanniques arr\u00eat\u00e9s par les Iraniens ? Blair commence \u00e0 s’inqui\u00e9ter s\u00e9rieusement. Les Britanniques observent un changement radical d’attitude des Iraniens, par rapport \u00e0 un incident similaire en 2004. Il faut dire que la crise iranienne \u00e9tait… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[705,1135,2773,4447,2680,3895,6150],"class_list":["post-68658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-blair","tag-cockburn","tag-iran","tag-kurdes","tag-londres","tag-marines","tag-piege"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}