Iraq & Lebanon Are Battlefields For Iran-Led Axis Vs US-Led Alliance.

Iraq & Lebanon Are Battlefields For Iran-Led Axis Vs US-Led Alliance. *** Assad Wants To Kill The Very Idea Of An International Court ToTry The Hariri Killers; But In The Event Of Deadlock In Beirut, The UNSC UNSC United Nations Security CouncilUNSC United Nations Space Command (gaming)UNSC United Nations Staff College Can Create The Tribunal Under Chapter 7 Which Will Make It Even MoreThreatening To The Ba'thist Dictatorship Of Damascus; The TimesHave Changed And The Ruler Of Syria Behaves As If The Soviet Union IsStill There To Protect His Regime; Nor Will 9/11 Be So Easily Forgotten *** Tehran Can See Its Oil Export Income Fall To Zero By 2015, IfThe Current Trends In Iran Do Not Change Drastically In The Meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified"meantime, meanwhile BEIRUT - There is deadlock in Lebanon between an opposition led byHizbullah, which is part of an "axis of influences" led byIran, and a besieged be��siege?tr.v. be��sieged, be��sieg��ing, be��sieg��es1. To surround with hostile forces.2. To crowd around; hem in.3. government resisting demands which a US-ledalliance of powers regard as being absurd. There is a deadlock in Iraqbetween a US-backed government no longer impressing the Americans, and amulti-party insurgency which has out-run its Syrian and Iraniansupporters. Both battlefields still seem to indicate that aspects of USPresident George W. Bush's project to democratise Verb 1. democratise - become (more) democratic; of nationsdemocratizechange - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"2. the GreaterMiddle East (GME GMEgranulomatous meningoencephalitis.GMEGraduate medical education, see there ) may bear some fruit - though not necessarily that hisproject is successful. But both fronts confirm that pan-Arab nationalismand pan-Islamism are on the decline in favour of pluralism. Despite frequent claims to the contrary, the fundamental problem inthe Middle East is not intervention by the West. On the contrary, saysSyrian dissident Ammar Abdulhamid, "the real problem is that, forall their dabbling, the Western powers seem capable of neither war nordialogue. This leaves everyone in the region at the mercy of the MiddleEast's oppressive regimes and proliferating terrorists". Advocates of the Iraq war Iraq War:see under Persian Gulf Wars. Iraq Waror Second Persian Gulf WarBrief conflict in 2003 between Iraq and a combined force of troops largely from the U.S. and Great Britain; and a subsequent U.S. lacked an understanding of thecomplexities on the ground to wage an effective war of liberation For the Napoleonic "War of Liberation", see War of the Sixth Coalition. A War of liberation is a conflict which is primarily intended to bring freedom or independence to a nation or group. anddemocratisation Noun 1. democratisation - the action of making something democraticdemocratizationgroup action - action taken by a group of people . As a result, their policies merely ended up eliminatingIran's two major regional rivals: the Taliban and SaddamHussein's Ba'thist dictatorship. This presented Iran with agolden opportunity to project itself as a regional hegemon heg��e��mon?n.One that exercises hegemony.[Greek hgem . Iran'sleaders are unlikely to let this expensive opportunity slip away. Advocates of US dialogue with the Shi'ite theocracy theocracyGovernment by divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided. In many theocracies, government leaders are members of the clergy, and the state's legal system is based on religious law. Theocratic rule was typical of early civilizations. of Iranand the Ba'thist dictatorship of Syria, like former US Secretary ofState James Baker, labour under the delusion that they can actuallyreach an understanding that would enable a graceful US exit from Iraqand help stabilise that wounded country. The delusion, Abdulhamid notes,is based on "two false assumptions: that the Iranians and theSyrians can succeed in Iraq where the US has failed; and that theinternational community can afford to pay the price of ensuring theirco-operation". Syria and Iran are playing a major role in supporting Iraqiinsurgents Insurgents,in U.S. history, the Republican Senators and Representatives who in 1909–10 rose against the Republican standpatters controlling Congress, to oppose the Payne-Aldrich tariff and the dictatorial power of House speaker Joseph G. Cannon. , and Syria is still encouraging the trafficking of jihadisand weapons across its borders with Iraq. But the idea that theseactivities can be halted at will is na?ve. For one thing, the interestsof the Shi'ite communities in Iraq and Iran are not the same. Iraqi Shi'ites have never accepted Iranian dictates, and manytook part in Saddam's war against Iran in the 1980s. The IraqiShi'ites are Arabs and many of them were originally Sunnisconverted into Ja'farim about 150 years ago. If they are nowwilling to co-ordinate their activities with their Persian patrons,their main goal will be to secure an independent course as soon aspossible, even while they carry on with their internecine in��ter��nec��ine?adj.1. Of or relating to struggle within a nation, organization, or group.2. Mutually destructive; ruinous or fatal to both sides.3. Characterized by bloodshed or carnage. disputeswithin Iraq. Iran is in no better a position than the US to convince theShi'ites and Sunni Arabs in Iraq to resolve their differences.President Bashar al-Assad of Syria - who inherited the dictatorship whenhis father died in mid-2000 - faces a similar dilemma. Although he hasopened Syria's border to jihadis and has allowed Saddam'ssupporters to operate freely there, that choice may not be entirely his. Syria's aid to Saddam in scheming around the UN'oil-for-food programme brought Iraqi money to Sunni inhabitants :This article is about the video game. For Inhabitants of housing, see Residency Inhabitants is an independently developed commercial puzzle game created by S+F Software. DetailsThe game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. of theborder region, who have always been closer in customs, dialect, andoutlook to their Iraqi neighbours than to fellow Syrians. In the absenceof state investment, local inhabitants' loyalty went to IraqiBa'thists who helped improve their lot. In an article published on Dec. 27 by The Daily Star of Beirut,Abdulhamid said: "Indeed, even local security apparatuses have beenunwilling to comply with instructions from Assad and his [Ba'thist]clique (mathematics) clique - A maximal totally connected subgraph. Given a graph with nodes N, a clique C is a subset of N where every node in C is directly connected to every other node in C (i.e. C is totally connected), and C contains all such nodes (C is maximal). to seal the borders. Under these circumstances, neither Syria norIran seems capable of delivering anything but mayhem in Iraq. What,then, would the proposed dialogue between the US and these statesachieve other than continue to empower their corrupt yet ambitious andregimes?" The story gets more complicated when one considers the UN inquiryinto the assassination AssassinationSee also Murder.assassinsFanatical Moslem sect that smoked hashish and murdered Crusaders (11th—12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52]Brutusconspirator and assassin of Julius Caesar. [Br. of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.Assad, implicated im��pli��cate?tr.v. im��pli��cat��ed, im��pli��cat��ing, im��pli��cates1. To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly: evidence that implicates others in the plot.2. in the murder, wants to see this affair forgotten -and the proponents of dialogue think they can give him what he wants inthe hope of breaking Syria's alliance with Iran. But that is merelyanother erroneous assumption. The alliance between Syria and Iran datesback more than two decades, and was explicitly reaffirmed by the tworegimes as recently as January 2005. Indeed, the two are now joined atthe hip. Assad's recent refusal to attend a summit in Tehran with hisIranian and Iraqi counterparts was a mere tactical move designed toappeal to the proponents of dialogue. In fact, Iran has investedhundreds of millions of dollars in Syria, and annual bilateral tradetops $1 bn. Growing Iranian influence over the Syrian security apparatusis well established. Iran is funding an effort to create Syrian Shi'ite militias tocompensate for Assad's sagging support in the army and in theminority Alawite community. Assad cannot turn his back on all of this. Abdulhamid added: "No deal would be sweet enough, even if itincluded the return of the Golan Heights. For Assad and his supporters,survival is more important than sovereignty. Still, to read thewell-known names of commentators and policymakers who are recommendingengaging Syria and Iran is a testament to how inconsequential and cutoff the Western powers have become from the realities on the ground inthe world's most turbulent region. That, it seems, is the price oftheir arrogance. (Ammar Abdulhamid is a Syrian author, blogger and dissident. Heruns the Tharwa Foundation, an independent initiative that focuses ondiversity issues in the region. The Daily Star carried his commentary incollaboration with Project Syndicate (www.project-syndicate.org).