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Iraqi Shiite Imam and former MP Jalal Al-Din Al-Saghir said that even though the Shiites are the minority in the numerical sense, "we are the majority, strategically speaking." The Shiites control the oil reserves in the region, as well as the straits controlling international maritime traffic, he said.
Following are excerpts from the address, which was posted on the Internet on April 28, 2014
Jalal Al-Din Al-Saghir: Today, it is downhill for everybody except for the Shiites. Only the Shiites are on the rise. A few days ago, the Russian foreign minister asked to meet urgently with an Iranian official. This was recounted by the Iranian official.
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[The Russian minister] sat down and said: "I want you to tell me about the Shiite. The Sunnis say that they are the majority, and that the Shiites are worthless, and so on."
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The Iranian official said: "I showed him the map, and told him that even though we are the minority in the numerical sense, we are the majority, strategically speaking. We and nobody else. We control the Saudi oil. We control the Iraqi oil. We control the oil of Iran. We control the oil of Afghanistan. We control the oil of Azerbaijan, as well as the oil of Syria and Lebanon… [Natural gas] was discovered in the Mediterranean Sea opposite Lebanon, and the war in Syria revolves mostly around this. One of the largest oil and natural gas sources was recently discovered. Why has Qatar gone berserk? Because Syria signed a contract for this natural gas directly with Russia. It was all for the sake of revenge.
People do not know about this, but this is what is said behind closed doors. [The Iranian asked the Russian] to check where the world's oil reserves are. They are all in these areas. The most important straits – the Bab Al-Mandab Strait in the Red Sea and the Hormuz Strait – are in our hands. The Bab Al-Mandab Strait is in the hands of the Houthis, and the Hormuz Strait is in the hands of the Iranians. This means that at any moment, we can easily impact international maritime traffic. Indeed, the Suez Canal is very important, but its key is the Bab Al-Mandab Strait. We are in the Mediterranean Sea, the Arabian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean.
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When the King of Jordan talked about a "Shiite crescent," it was no idle talk. They are doing the math and are horrified by the result. We already talked about the strategic importance, but what about what is happening on the ground? In Lebanon, Hizbullah has total control of politics and security. When someone would take a shot as Israel with a slingshot, they used to retaliate with missiles and airplanes, but now they have to think twice. They know that if they retaliate, they will have a serious headache to deal with.
Palestine is also in the hands of the Shiites today. The Islamic Jihad is not like Hamas. Hamas is a different story, but the Islamic Jihad, which carries out most of the armed operations in Palestine, is a purely Shiite government. Most of its money is Shiite money. All the missiles they launched at Israel in the last war were Shiite missiles.
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Do you think that the Syrian army is behind the improved security in Syria? Seriously?! The Syrian army? I don't want to go into this, but it's not so different than… [Shiite] special forces and mujahideen go there and sacrifice their lives. They fight and die as martyrs, and then they say [to the Syrians]: We have liberated this area for you. The next day, the [Syrians] sell it as an act of corruption or treason.
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So it should come as no surprise that the Americans want to sign deals with Iran. They don't do it out of love for Iran, or anything. It is no surprise that they broke away from the Saudis, and left them with broken bones. The last meeting between Obama and Abdullah was a reprimand. Following the meeting, a top U.S. official said: "We have never seen anyone worse than the Saudi rulers." The Saudi [king] will be gone, Allah willing, in a day or two, or maybe 10-20 days. That will be the end of the story. The armies they sent to Syria were vanquished, and Allah willing, so will the armies that they have sent to Iraq. The moment that our leadership is replaced by a clean and honest one, we will not be stopped – not by ISIS and not by Abu-ISIS.
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