A Lebanese news network published a note stressing the strategic importance of Iraq to the Zionist regime, stressing that Tel Aviv would spare no effort and conspiracy to weaken the country and force it to join the train of normalization.
Al-Mayadin news website, in a note written by “Abbas Al-Zain”, examined the dimensions of the goals of the Zionist regime’s focus on the Iraq case and the efforts to weaken and dismantle it, and warned of long-term conspiracies for this important regional country, that in the next phase, Iraq will not be safe from Israeli plans and programs aimed at weakening and forcing it to move towards normalization, and foreign interference, led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE in Iraq, will be within the framework of this plan.
The memo states: “The martyrdom of Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, the deputy head of the Iraqi Al-Hashd al-Shabi organization, and General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps [in January 2009] in Baghdad, also marked the beginning of a new phase in Iraqi history. The Zionist regime not only in its political statements, but also in its security process, considers that Iraq is under threat. “In the aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the occupying regime was moving with all its might to dispel the threat of Iraq.”
Effective military front against Israel
The author emphasizes: “The security and military level of the occupying Israeli regime in recent years has recognized Iraq as a new threat to itself. This is clearly stated in the report of the Center for National Security Studies of Israel last year. In the sense that in the coming [possible] war, “the internal front will be targeted in parallel with thousands of missiles and mortars, including dozens of precision-guided missiles and drones from several fields, including Lebanon, Syria, western Iraq and possibly Gaza””.
According to the memo, joint US-Israeli military exercises last February expressed the same concerns. To the extent that the exercises were based on simulated scenarios of cruise missiles, surface-to-surface missiles and suicide drone strikes from western Iraq and Yemen. According to Israeli media, the new possibility was considered after the exercises were limited to simulating missile strikes from Lebanon, Syria and Iran.
Kirkuk – Haifa.. Oil ambitions
The author emphasizes that Iraq and the resistance groups are facing the continuing ambitions of Israel, which is focused on the oil sector. The occupying regime is in dire need of setting up the Kirkuk-Haifa port oil pipeline in occupied Palestine, which operated between 1935 and 1948 and was built by the Iraqi Oil Company between 1932 and 1934; This remained unfinished following the catastrophe of the occupation of Palestine known as the Day of Judgment, as the then Iraqi government refused to pump more oil into the pipeline in protest.
Israel’s ambitions in this regard are evident in many media reports published in recent years with the content that Israel buys Iraqi oil from the Iraqi Kurdistan region. According to reports, oil from the Iraqi Kurdistan region is illegally exported to the Turkish port of Ceyhan via a separate pipeline, from where it is transported by oil tankers to the ports of Haifa and Asqalan in occupied Palestine. According to data from the American company “Caliber Data” – the American company specializing in tracking oil shipments – in 2017, Israel was the first importer of crude oil from the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
Inexhaustible conspiracies
Over the past two decades, Israel has tried all available means to divide Iraq into ethnic, sectarian and religious cantons to achieve its goals and has abused developments against Iraq, the memo said. This is clearly seen in the remarks of the former Israeli Minister of War, Avigdor Lieberman, in 2016, who said: “There are conclusions that the world should get rid of the Middle East conflict, the most important of which is the need to divide Iraq and Syria.”
An important point in the memo was that Iraq’s absence from the region’s political map would be one of the factors reducing strategic threats against Israel.
The author warns that in the next phase, Iraq will not be safe from the plans of the Zionists with the aim of weakening its capabilities and forcing it to move towards the normalization of relations with Israel, and foreign interference in it, especially from Saudi Arabia and the UAE.