Pictures , which have been circulated widely to the commander of the Qods Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Qassem Soleimani to participate in meetings to oversee the battle of Fallujah, raised large controversy on the social networking sites, that some of the pictures showed Qassem Soleimani in civilian clothes at a meeting with leaders of the popular crowd militias in Iraq to oversees on the Maps which is said to have military plans for the battle of Fallujah, while other images appeared in different clothing (like military uniform), wearing a t-shirt, green color. This is the second time that Qassem Soleimani appears in the Iraqi conflict zones. Prior, he was present when the popular crowd forces drove militants of the organization of the Islamic State from cities north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
What concerns us in this context is not to talk about one of the formations of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards that abuse in Iraq, despite the disastrous impact of it , and will not address some Iraqi parties that make appeasement to the Iranian regime, and implement its orders as an objective for it , and does not focus here on some or most of the political leaders and religious figures who agreed to make Iraq , the central state in the Arab, regional and international environment with its full weight , abilities and capacities, to be merely a playing card used by the system at the moment that it sees appropriate .What concerns us is the goal of the emergence of the Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani at that particular time. And we have to ask: Is there something to prevent Qassem Soleimani to exercise his duties under the cover of secrecy that he is good at? Iran has used to move in the dark and provoke unrest and problems from behind a curtain, as it does in Bahrain, Yemen, Lebanon and everywhere where they can make followers and loyalists, and therefore it must view to the reverse behavior by blatant announcing about the presence of Qassem Soleimani as an intentional act totally and has its specific objectives that can not be achieved by working in the dark.
The goal of appearing is to give national ,domestic and nervous significance for the battle of Fallujah, the man revealed his face there, who came to say to the people of Fallujah before the others that the victory over the «Daash» will be the share of your sectarian opponents, and you have no choice except to join «Daash» to defend yourselves. It is difficult to interpret the visit, and the interpretation of the celebration of it just in this context. So to fight the state organization in Iraq and the Levant «Daash» was not the goal of the Iranians, whether in Syria or in Iraq, but that the Iranian regime has not received throughout its reign more precious gift than this terrorist organization. It has long been a defeat of «Daash» is a possible loss of the Iranian regime of the desired enemy , and today it seems to ignite the sectarian souls in Iraq as an extension to this fact. Defeating «Daash» in Fallujah has become the most difficult task after the visit of the commander of the Quds Force Qassem Soleimani there, inflaming sectarian mood about this battle will pay to confuse objectives and what will result of possibilities . Here we are beginning to hear echoes, they are in the eyes of the media and widespread «capital of the resistance» and »mosques City», and which is known by other media as the «city of terrorism». The winner of this noise is «Daash» and Soleimani.
The aim of this appearance confirms giving the hated sectarian shade on the Iraqi ongoing events in a moment of burning, and exert more pressure on the Iraqi Sunnis who support getting rid of «Daash» efforts, and they are engaged and participated in by addressing succession of waves of terrorism, through the experiences of « Awakening »and through tribal uprisings against the tyranny of« Daash »and its brutality, thus a lot of those Sunnis will feel that they are fighting a Soleimani war and not their war, and that the national considerations that they raised above sectarian considerations when they face« Daash », it will ultimately be for the benefit of other sectarian groups no less extreme and worse .
And when images of Qassem Soleimani on the outskirts of Fallujah city of indications , it broadcasts on the pages of militias of popular crowd at social networking sites pictures that show a meeting between former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the leader of “Qods Force” in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Qassem Soleimani on the outskirts of Fallujah. The broadcast of images in the framework of the keen of the media of the militias of the popular crowd to highlight Iran’s role in the attack on Fallujah, also it comes a day after the broadcast of militia of Nujaba two images that show Soleimani in a room for the command of militia operations in the presence of a number of leaders, including Hadi al-Ameri, Abu Mahdi Mohandes. There was no more negative message and depressing, the former prime minister Nuri al-Maliki, a leading Iraq during the eight years, during which deepened its crisis, exacerbated its political, economic and social conflicts and problems, in which the corruption as increased , and the rest of the national cohesion was cracked and become a failed state on the verge of falling . the Sectarian politics of Nuri al-Maliki was one of the reasons for this terrible failure.
The Mutual need between Maliki and Soleimani is a natural need, because the first is an ally of the Iranian regime in Iraq, and the second is a symbol of sectarianism and expansion project of the Iranian regime in the Arab Mashreq, the two issues are linked very closely noting that the inflaming the sectarian obsession and uphold its word and blowing into the fire of fanaticism is a behavior can be used whenever the demands of accountability and transparency votes and the real issues concerning the reform and stop the bleeding plunder, bribery, nepotism and the seizure of public money and the exclusion of competencies are raised , all of which can be fade and disappeared before the industry of the sectarian strife and feeding instincts of aggression, hatred and obsessing . Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nori Al-maliki in which Iraq was ranked during his reign in sixth place among the most corrupt countries in the world he is the first people to appear with Qassem Soleimani, because he believes that the Iranian regime is the strategic depth of Iraq and not the other.
Qassem Soleimani knows that Iraq can not rise as a united country without a tendency of independence that governs the choice of the people and the government , this tendency is the key to Iraq to get out from under the rubble of wars and occupations, and therefore any step toward the establishing of Independence project would collide with the Iranian influence, this influence was not limited to the formation of the popular crowd and try to be confiscated by Iran, but the Iranian influence was to control the most of the appointments of officials of the security and military joints in the Iraqi institutions , as long as the Government of Haider al-Abadi has been collided with several Iranian obstacles at this level. He seeks with all his strength to get rid of the Iranian hegemony on system of government in Iraq, which is no doubt that his task is difficult but not impossible.
Iranian project in Iraq has become conditional due to the accumulation of Iranian factional policies, based on the mind of control and not on the friendship or partnership with Iraq, and on the mentality of the imposition of the system that its priorities are national and security at the expense of the Iraqi state project. The success of this project has become conditional to transfer Iraqi components to frightened ones from each other , and protected from abroad on its diversity. Iran is clearly moving towards entrenching the idea that Iran is protecting the Shiites in Iraq, and there is no option for the Shiite component only to be protected by Iran, this is what Soleimani wanted to say in his suspicious appearance in Fallujah and in his claim that Iran was behind the formation of the popular crowd, and this is an invitation to the other components particularly the Sunni component to the further pursuit of separation as the counterparty is no longer Iraqis. it is Iran, which would not be more merciful than Daash. In this sense Soleimani laughs as also the Caliph al-Baghdadi laughs, a shared laugh, as Daash and the Iranian influence in Iraq are not able just only to bring about the sedition and the sectarian conflict in Iraq. Iran, which has shown tangibly that it supported the larger process of corruption and frustration during the rule of its man Nuri al-Maliki , has revealed how much it is unable to exert any Iraqi unitary option enhancing the power of the state and its presence, and showed to the world how the Iranian policy does not involve in every sense of the slogans of any option but only the military or security, Soleimani has no language but only the language of fighting , and there is no place for the language of the peace, harmony and cultural advancement in the lexicon of Iranian policy in Iraq, as is the case with the organization Daash.
Finally, the emergence of Qassem Soleimani is an indication that what awaits Iraq, even after the defeat of state regulation in Iraq and the Levant «Daash» of Fallujah and the others is not reassuring , and that the dull shade of the sectarianism that Iran is preparing its reasons will remain hovering over the chests of Iraqis for along time . It remains that the «victory» or «steadfastness» will carry the new images and different from the wars of the previous stages, which is the scene of the devastating and empty cities after the defeat of «Daash» . So to «prevent sedition» in the wake of the defeat requires that the cities to be free from its people . This is what happened to Tikrit and Al-Ramadi, and it seems that befall to the Fallujah.
Rawabet Center for Research and Strategic Studies