Kamal Nazer Yasin 7/01/08 A EurasiaNet Commentary In public and in even in its diplomatic dealings, Iran has adamantly opposed the partition of Iraq, variously deriding the idea as a "diabolical plot," a "colonial scheme," and "divide-and-rule politics." Yet, behind the façade of opposition, Iranian leaders seem to have quietly concluded that a tri-partite partition of Iraq along ethnic-confessional lines may be in Iran’s best interests. The issue of partitioning Iraq burst into the public arena during the height of Iraq’s mini-civil war in 2006. Although the Bush administration strongly opposed the partition concept, some politicians, notably Senator Joe Biden, the Delaware Democrat, embraced the idea enthusiastically. The success of the Bush administration’s surge policy, along with ethnic relocations of the recent past,...
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