[Marxism] US-Iran alliance in Iraq?

[Louis Proyect]

Walter Lippmann wrote:
> Washington and Tehran are at loggerheads. They are not colluding.

It is not a question of "colluding". They have common interests in 
seeing a viable quisling government in power. One of the reasons I find 
notions of a Venezuela-Iran "anti-imperialist" alliance laughable is 
that Iran provided critical intelligence to the USA in its war on the 
Taliban in 2001 and then 2 years later its surrogate in Iraq (SCIRI) 
became the advance guard of the occupation. Of course, the USA wants to 
destroy the Islamic Republic. It has a clear idea of where its class 
interests lie. Unfortunately, the mullah/bazaari bourgeoisie has only a 
dim idea of how to defend its own republic. In many ways, they keep 
shooting themselves in the foot like Stalin on the eve of WWII.