In recent weeks, many European and American officials have acknowledged that the road to a Middle East free passes through Tehran. In other words, the only way to see the peace and freedom will prevail in the Middle East and especially in Iraq, is to see a democratic Government, taking power in Iran.
Although the Iranian people have been saying this for the last 3 years still pretty much ignored by Westerners, but reaching this conclusion is in itself a sign of reaching a new and deep understanding of the region by Western leaders.
Before the war in Iraq, Americans believed that some could how to get along with the Iranians as the largest in that country neighbour. Without a doubt, the United States, through diplomatic channels, officially requested the Iranians not to interfere in the war and for the duration of the operations and they actually get to keep them out. Then it turned out that the Americans actually had met with the Iranians a few times in Europe to discuss the matter.
In exchange for not interfering in the war, Iran asked the allies to bomb and annihilate your enemy for a long time, levels of Mujahedin of peoples of Iran (PMOI) which was based on Iraq. PMOI is recognized as the largest and most organized Iranian dissident movement that exists outside the country and has vowed to overthrow the mullahs in Tehran. Just before the war the PMOI said non-partisan war however its bases were bombed and many of its members were killed.
Shortly thereafter, WIPO and the American command in Iraq reached a peace agreement by the PMOI in the protection of US forces in accordance with the Geneva Conventions.
After the war, Iran, finding himself under increasing international pressure due to its suspicious nuclear activities and the dreaded of human rights records, became aware of the danger of being surrounded by the Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In addition, a central Iraq power vacuum blinked the opportunity to make a wish for a long time by Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, and their followers to pursue the dream of an Islamic Empire, through Iraq to reach the holly land in Israel.
Announcing the plan for a Middle East free and open by President Bush and other world leaders, it was clear to the Iranian theocracy planned future does not include their ideologies backwards. To survive however, Iranians found their remedies in pushing ahead full force, making sure that Iraq will become "another Viet Nam" for Americans.
Interference in Iraq was through different means. The Group of Bader was based on Iran who had been training for a day so many years was now in Iraq taking key rules in the security forces Government and its newly formed. Using forces Bader and other groups in Iraq, the mules were able to create a field of battle against the Americans do not think the unthinkable.
Also cheating absolute in the elections of the Mullahs managed to seize most of the seats in the new Parliament and if it were not for the millions of Iraqis to Iraq taking the streets chanting "Iran, exit," would have been able to actually installing a Government puppet in that country.
Shortly after cheating Iran in Iraq elections and his bloody hand in the daily scenes of Iraq bombing were exposed, and after mounting international pressures, the Iranians began gradually losing control over the situation and began to see cornered by the international community.
In order to learn from the past and not make the same mistakes twice that we must remember that while there is the Iranian regime in the Middle East, it will be in the way of formation of democracy in the region as we currently see in the regeion.
The geopolitics of the region dictates that democratic defenders of Iraq being tested in practice first hand and he says, "the road to democracy in the region, undoubtedly passes through Tehran". We will only see peace and democracy in Iraq when there is a democratic Government, Pacific, newly established in Iran.
Nima Sharif is a political writer and human rights, and publisher of the website: http://www.stopfundamentalism.com