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イラク政府が1980年のイラク・イラン戦争の間違い（侵略）を初めて認めた。
イラン外務大臣のイラク訪問もあり、イラク・イラン関係は、劇的に改善される可能性が高まった。
アメリカは、慌てているのではなかろうか。以下のニューヨークタイムズ記事の紹介の後に、拙著の該当部分を紹介する。
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/20/international/middleeast/20iraq.html?th&emc=th
May 20, 2005
Iraqi Government, in Statement With Iran, Admits Fault for 1980's War
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 19 - In a move that is likely to inflame further Sunni Arab resentments, the Iraqi government publicly acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that Iraq was the aggressor in 1980 when it touched off a bloody eight-year war with Iran.
In a joint statement at the end of a three-day visit by the Iranian foreign minister, Kamal Kharazi, the new Shiite-led Iraqi government said that Saddam Hussein, the overthrown Iraqi leader, and other officials in his government must be put on trial for committing "military aggression against the people of Iraq, Iran and Kuwait," as well as crimes against humanity and war crimes.
It was an effort to bring to a close the bitter legacy of the war in which nearly a million people were estimated to have died and tens of thousands more were displaced as refugees.
An Iraqi Foreign Ministry official who helped write the communiqu?, Labeed Abbawi, said the admission was intended not as an acknowledgement of guilt on the part of the Iraqi state or people, who also suffered staggering casualties in the war. Rather, he said, it was meant to lay the responsibility for the war squarely on Mr. Hussein and other leaders of his government, many of whom face trials later this year for their roles in the killing of Iraqis.
"The file of the war, we want to put it behind us," he said. "We want to open a new path of cooperation."
Even so, it was a gesture of warmth toward Iran, which has long sought formal recognition of Iraq's use of chemical weapons against it during the war, and underscored how the political landscape here has shifted, with Iraqi Shiites, many of whom spent years in exile in Iran, now running the government.
The statement is not likely to sit well with Iraq's Sunni Arabs, who ran the country for decades but have been largely left out of the National Assembly, which will draft the new Iraqi constitution, since boycotting national elections in January. Shiites control the government for the first time in modern Iraqi history, and Sunni Arabs, isolated politically, have begun to chafe under their rule.
Sunni resentment has hardened recently, with a leading Sunni cleric accusing a government militia, made up largely of Shiites, of carrying out mosque raids and killings. On Thursday, two Sunni groups called for the temporary closing of dozens of Baghdad mosques as a protest.
"People will not accept it," said Saleh Mutlak, a member of the National Dialogue Council, a coalition of Sunni Arab political leaders, of the admission of responsibility for the war. "It looks like these people want to pay back the favor that Iran did for them," he said, referring to Iraq's new government.
Historians still debate the precise reasons for the start of the war between the two countries in 1980. It began during the Iranian revolution, and some experts say the new Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, agitated for a religious war to incite Iraq's large Shiite population to rebellion.
Others have accused Mr. Hussein of starting the war, saying he was seeking to capitalize on the chaos in Iran to overturn a 1975 agreement that fixed what he considered an unjust border in the Shatt al Arab, the waterway the two countries share at its southern end, and to seize the oil-rich Iranian province of Khuzestan.
A United Nations investigation after the war effectively assigned responsibility for the start of the war to Mr. Hussein, said Farideh Farhi, a professor of Iranian politics at the University of Hawaii, but Iran's claims of huge sums in war reparations unresolved.
Ms. Farhi said the statement Thursday appeared to be directed more at Mr. Hussein's use of chemical weapons against Iran, an issue very important to Iranians. As the Iraqis drew up guidelines for the trials of Mr. Hussein and other Baath Party leaders, they decided not to extend prosecution to any crime perpetrated outside Iraq's borders, and Iranians want international recognition that they suffered under Iraqi gas and chemical weapons attacks.
"The issue for Iranians is not whether or not Iraq is identified as the aggressor," she said. "That was something that had been settled before. The issue that is not settled for them is the issue of war crimes. During the time the Iraqis were using chemical weapons on Iran, the international community was not willing to take a side on that issue."
Underscoring Iran's ties to the religious leadership in Iraq, Mr. Kharazi called on the Shiite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the holy city of Najaf on Thursday. The Iranian minister's visit began on Tuesday, just two days after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Iraq.
Meanwhile, in an incident likely to provoke more anger among Sunni Arabs here, eight people, including guards working for a National Assembly member, Sheik Fawaz al-Jarba, were killed in a firefight involving American troops in the northern city of Mosul on Thursday. The American military said in a statement that an American helicopter had been called to the home of Sheik Jarba, and fired at gunmen it described as terrorists on the roof.
A gun battle ensued, the military said, and some members of the sheik's security force were killed. The statement did not say whether the men died in the helicopter fire.
Mr. Jarba said terrorists attacked his house as well as the car of some some relatives traveling nearby, but that in a case of mistaken identity American troops who responded killed three of his own guards.
Mr. Jarba said he did not witness the deaths of those three guards, but that his other guards told him they had been killed by the Americans.
Also on Thursday, a car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque in Baghdad, killing two Iraqis and injuring six more, an Interior Ministry official said. Earlier in the day, gunmen shot and killed a senior official in the Oil Ministry, another in a series of assassinations.
Three American soldiers were killed, one in an attack on an American base in the city of Ramadi, and two others in central Baghdad, when gunmen attacked their convoy.
In another sign of just how far the relationship between Iraq and Iran has progressed since the administration of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari was sworn in, the communiqu? said Iran had agreed to open consulates in Basra and Karbala, Shiite-dominated cities in southern and south central Iraq. For its part, Iraq will open consulates in Kermanshah and Khorramshahr, cities in western Iran near the Iraqi border.
The communiqu? pledged border security improvements, condemned Israel and, in a clear appeal to Iraq's Sunni Arabs, called for the participation of all nationalities and sects in the new government.
Richard A. Oppel Jr. contributed reporting from Baghdad for this article, and an Iraqi employee of The New York Times from Mosul.
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http://www.jca.apc.org/~altmedka/gulfw.html
『湾岸報道に偽りあり』
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第五章：イラク「悪魔化」宣伝の虚実
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3.「侵略主義者」サダムはイラン「征服」を狙ったか
[中略]確認しておきたいのは、アメリカの二枚舌、ダブル・スタンダード問題である。アメリカは、イラン・イラク戦争に際して、「イラクの侵略」を国連に訴えたりしなかった。ラムゼイ・クラークらが組織した「国際戦争犯罪法廷のための調査委員会」による「告発状」の「背景事実」は、その事情を次のように鋭く要約している。
「イラン国王が倒され、テヘランのアメリカ大使館人質事件が起こってから、アメリカは、イランとの戦争において、ソ連、サウジアラビア、クウェイトおよび大部分の首長国と同様、イラクに軍事援助と支援を与えた。一八八〇年から八八年までの悲劇的な八年戦争における合衆国の政策をおそらく最も巧みに要約しているのは、ヘンリ・キッシンジャー（当時、米国務長官）がその初期に述べた次の言葉であろう。『彼らが互いに殺し合うことを希望している』」
事実、この戦争中にアメリカのトップとＣＩＡは、イラン・コントラゲート事件として表面化した際に明らかにされただけでも、イスラエルと組んでイランに二千数百基ものミサイルを売却していた。それらはイラクに降り注いだのだ。
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4.長期紛争の原因はイラン側の主体的条件
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