Ex-Security Advisor Calls for Iran-Iraq Coalition against Zionists-Takfiri Alliance

Iraq’s Former National Security Advisor Mowaffaq al-Rubaie urged Baghdad and Tehran to form a strategic alliance in a bid to confront the new wave of aggressions and attacks on the regional nations by a recently formed Zionist-Takfiri coalition.
“We want the neighboring Iran to be our ally and friend and we favor a strategic alliance with Iran,” Al-Rubaie told FNA on Monday.

He reiterated that the Iran-Iraq alliance will prevent Israel and the Takfiri Jihadists from spreading sectarian strife in the region.

“While the Zionist-Takfiri alliance fuels the fire of sectarianism in the region, the Islamic Republic is one of our allies against this alliance,” Al-Rubaie said.

Iran and Iraq have enjoyed growing ties ever since the overthrow of the former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, in 2003.

Both sides are working on a series of plans to take wide strides in expanding their ties.

Earlier this year, former Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Araqchi said that “Takfiri groups are fomenting sectarian strife among Muslims and are, thus, serving the enemies of Islam”.

“We believe that fomenting sectarian and religious war, conflict and division among Muslims is as foreign plot and we do believe that there are hands at work, specially the hands of the Zionist regime, which provoke these divisions and conflicts,” Araqchi told reporters in Tehran in June.

He condemned any divisive move among Muslims, calling it a “satanic move”.

Israeli regime has been a key supporter of the Takfiri and Salafi groups, specially in provoking the unrest in Syria which has gripped the country for more than two years.

The regime has carried out at least three airstrikes on Syrian soil so far this year.

Tel Aviv’s provocative moves around Lebanon with its warplanes hovering over Beirut as well as its recent activities in the occupied Golan Heights have raised security concerns in regional countries.

Analysts believe that due to its deep involvement in the crisis, Israel cannot afford to settle with a condition in which President Assad remain in power even if that is the only way to stop the bloodshed.

Assad has always said that he cannot leave the country in the hands of extremist and terrorist groups that have created the cruelest scenes the country has ever witnessed.