Fisk: "Iran man" in Iraq vows America to Vietnam again

"The American man who is mad at Donald Trump," said the commentator on the visit of Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo to Iraq. 
In his article, Fisk notes that the New York Times described the visit as "secretive", carrying a message to the Iraqi government that it should stop importing Iranian energy and not allow pro-Tehran forces to target US forces in Iraq. 
The writer said Pompeo may have visited the "man of Iran" in Iraq and to better understand the situation, referring to the Iraqi parliamentarian Hadi al-Amiri.
Fisk says he visited Amiri just days before Pompeo's arrival, noting that Amiri, 63, is a personal friend of General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, the US "supernatural terrorist" in the Middle East, who fought with him in the eight-year war against Saddam Hussain. 
The writer says: "I imagine what he would say to Pompeo because that's what he said to me," We are nostalgic for America because of the crazy Donald Trump. "There were 180,000 US troops in Iraq and we did not give in to their intentions and aspirations. Today we want to build a self-reliant, strong and sovereign Iraq in the region. And we will build relations with all the countries of the region for the benefit of the Iraqi people, not for America, Saudi Arabia or Iran, and we will not allow the United States to use Iraq to monitor the countries of the region and will not allow Iraq to turn into a war zone to get rid of its debts.
"It is not for Iran that Hadi al-Amiri presents himself today as an Iraqi national first, and a Shiite second, although his enemies do not agree with what he says. He relies on his participation in the battles against the state organization , Which dominated the third of Iraq in 2014. 
"In the course of the fierce battles against the state organization, the popular crowd was not the main nerve allied with the Kurds or the Iraqi army, and indirectly with the United States, which provided the air cover for popular mobilization," the author notes. 
Fisk quotes Amiri as saying " America is not the old America, it is more than ever, and they could not do anything with their neighbor Cuba or Venezuela when they were a superpower. What are they going to do here, let Trump solve his problems with Congress first? Are you afraid of American power? If they fought here, they would face defeat as in Vietnam. "
"They do not have the right to impose their will on the rest of the people, let them try, let them start from Lebanon, Syria and Palestine," said Amiri. "No one has tried in Lebanon or the Golan. He did this in Iraq and he will fail. "Fisk comments that Gaza has been damaged like Lebanon from time to time. 
"We are part of the Iraqi state, we prepare ourselves as part of the Iraqi government, and any person," he said. "We are part of the Iraqi state. He will attack us, we will respond, we do not need Iran's help, we have the resources and the capabilities to do this ourselves, and met with (George) Casey, and told him: I am stronger than you, you rely on the authority of the occupation,
"Casey was the commander of US forces in Iraq between 2004 and 2007, and was opposed to the increase in the number of US troops, and preferred to hand over security tasks to the Iraqis, and this explains the admiration of Amiri and became commander of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Trump ". 
The writer noted that "Amiri preferred to build his military shares to fight Iraq to organize the state or (preacher) as he prefers to call it, and was able to do this without mentioning the word (Shiite), and said: (In 2014 began the army (government) collapse, Mosul, Kirkuk, Salah al-Din, Anbar, parts of Diyala and besieged Baghdad. At that time every historian said that Iraq was over, and I told them we would win, and I said that on the first day, and the morale of the army was below zero. "
"We liberated al-Ramadi without their assistance, and most of Salah al-Din province without their help, and liberated Falluja without," Fisk said. "The Americans did not participate in the operations until they saw us advancing." But the Americans opposed our move towards Falluja. They took part in the battle over the center of Ramadi. That's all, and Mosul has turned it into ruins. "
According to the writer that Amiri was known during his receipt of the post of Minister of Transport by allowing the Iranian aircraft carrying weapons to cross Iraqi airspace on the way to Syria, and commented Amiri on the charges, saying: "The US ambassador came to Baghdad to visit me when I was Minister of Transport, said: I am saying that you have no right to issue orders. There is an international organization that organizes international flights. I do not receive orders from you. I tell you that they are terrorists, you have gathered them from around the world, and one day you will fight them and bring them. Evil to Europe, and six months later ... " 
Fisk points out that Al-Amiri agrees that Iran and Russia have helped Bashar al-Assad. "The help of Iran and Russia was important. The Islamists (the Islamists) and the Russians, Hezbollah, and the Syrian army fought with the help of Hezbollah. The international crowd played the role Hezbollah played in Syria, .
"If the United States is against us, the Iraqi army will unite again, they tried to destroy Iraq and Syria at the same time," says the author. "This is an amazing comparison. The Syrian army believes that the Russians are his most important ally, not the Iranians. Iraq is united and sectarian is dead, and the Americans say: Amiri is sectarian, but he is more popular among Sunnis than Shiites today. The Saudis were fools and Mohammed bin Salman moved childishly to Yemen. The Americans told me that the war in Yemen would end in two weeks, Days, then four months, and went on it now x Years, the Saudis lose every day, they sacrifice every day). "
"If we get an attack on us, China and Russia will not stand neutral, and Tehran will stand with us. What I know about the Iranians is that the more pressure they have, the more they unite," he said. "Iran united when Hassan Rowhani tried to dialogue with the West despite internal differences. It was the sanctions that drove the Iranians to develop ballistic missiles and centrifuges, and the more pressure on them, the greater their scientific independence," he said. 
Amiri is quoted as saying that with the open market and free trade, most of Iran's economy is based on the private sector, including the energy it provides to Iraq.
"We have helped a great deal in coordinating the opposition and during the battle against (Da'ash) who helped the Iraqis on behalf of the Iranian nation, and was a good adviser, and hundreds of advisers in Iraq, who were martyred on Iraqi soil, were with him on the lines Fighting, and died the best, and for this reason have left a good impact on the battle. " 
"Most of what al-Amiri said is what the Iranians say, and his narration about history is the Iranian novel, even if I asked him if the American man in Iraq laughed at that ridiculous idea," Fisk said. 
"I still gave him two business cards, one for him and one for Sulaimani. I want to meet this man," he said. "I do not know when I will see him again."