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“The 2013 democracy was part of the greater plan patronized by our friends in Washington, London and the Holy Land,” wrote Dr. Haider Mehdi, a Pakistani political analyst, journalist and author, at Opinion Maker, on May 2, 2013.  

The Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) headed by Mian Nawaz Sharif and his younger brother Shabaz Sharif has emerged as single largest party in country’s recent general election by securing 123 seats in the 272-seat National Assembly. PML-N is still short of absolute majority to form a government without attracting the MPs elected on the seats reserved for women and the non-Muslim minorities. However, the Western Zionist-controlled media has hailed the election as “landmark” which also resulted in the death of 40 politicians and civilians.

American president Barack Obama, British prime minister David Cameron and Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh were the first world leaders to congratulate Nawaz Sharif over his party’s election victory. The European Union called the election as “land mark”. In return Nawaz Sharif promised better relations with Washington while “warmer ties” with New Delhi.

Nawaz Sharif is poised for a record third term Pakistan’s Prime Minister. His brother Shahbaz will continue as Chief Minister of Punjab for the third term. Bhutto’s Pakistan People Party (PPP) has almost got wiped off at the center – but most probably form new government in Sindh province with MQM in the opposition. World-renowned Pakistani cricketer, Imran Khan’s party Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) is set to form government in Khyber-Pakhtunkwa province, bordering US-NATO occupied Afghanistan. The fourth province, troubled Balochistan, will mostly have a coalition government.

Nawaz Sharif 63, a millionaire industrialist, was introduced to politics by Pakistan’s second military dictatator, Gen. Zia-ul-Haq, in the 1980s. Zia maintained very close relations with Washington and the western-puppet regime in Riyadh. In 1999, Pakistan’s five top military commanders carried a military coup against Nawaz Sharif government and installed Gen. Pervez Musharaf as country’s fourth military dictator. Nawaz Sharif was deposed, jailed and exiled to Saudi Arabia along with 40 family members – not to return before 2010. Sharif returned Pakistan in 2007 after the downfall of Gen. Pervez Musharaf as result of mass protests and the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

A refugee from Amritsar (Indian Punjab), Nawaz Sharif has always expressed his warm feelings for Pakistan No.1 enemy, India. However, this has made him dear to the Zionist-controlled western governments.

Pakistan’s former Army Chief of staff, Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg has warned Nawaz Sharif on jumping into bed with India without resolving Kashmir conflict and CIA-Mossad-RAW terrorist activities in Pakistan. “He must see the Pakistan-India in the context of the present day realities on ground – Russian-Chinese interests in the region, withdrawal of US-NATO forces from Afghanistan and Indian ambitions to become a regional power“.

Nawaz Sharif government will face many hurdles; bad economy, sectarian terrorism, foreign hands in further breakup of Pakistan, Kashmir problem, US drone attacks, Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline and West’s bogus War on Terror, etc. – and the US-Israel-Indian-sponsored separate movements in Balochistan and recently London-based MQM’s founder-president Altaf Hussain’s threat over detaching Karachi from rest of Pakistan.

Pleasing America’s Jewish lobby will be the most tough task for Nawaz Sharif to achieve – as vast majority of Pakistanis are totally against establishing diplomatic relation with Israel or rolling-back country’s nuclear research.

It’s rumored that veteran politician Sartaj Aziz would PML-N candidate for the ceremonial post of President of Pakistan, replacing current President Asif Ali Zardari whose term expires in September 2013.

Iran’s upcoming 11th Presidential election is scheduled to be held on June 14, 2013. This will be an opportunity for Iranian voters to elect country’s 7th president for the next four year. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Islamic Republic has six presidents – Abolhassan Banisadr (elected on January 25, 1980 but impeached after 17 months), Mohammad Ali Rajaei (martyred on August 30, 1981 by US-Israel supported MEK terrorist group),  Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei (1981-89), Ayatullah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1989-97), Ayatullah Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005) and Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2005-2013).

Iranian Constitution doesn’t allow the current president Ahmadinejad to run for the third term, but he still seems to be the most popular Iranian leader after the Spiritual Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenie. On April 8, 2013, Associated Press’ Ali Akbar Daraeni and Brian Murphy wrote an article in The Orange County Register newspaper, titled “People’s President”.

“A pro-Ahmadinejad candidate will have a good number of votes,” said Abolfazl Zahei, a pro-reform activist. “There are 2,000 villages in South Khorasan province, and most people in those villages have benefited from Ahmadinejad’s government. People care about making their ends meet and welfare, not politics.”

According to Iranian Constitution, the winning candidate must receive 50% of the total vote cast – otherwise a second ballot will be held between the winner and the runner-up, as was the case between Dr. Ahmadinejad and former president Ayatullah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani during 2005 presidential election. In the second round, Ahmadinejad received 17,248,782 votes, out of total 27,958,931 votes cast.

Nearly 500 Iranian have filled nomination papers to run for the presidential election. They’re being scrutinized by the powerful Guardian Council for not hypocrite Muslims or anti-Islamic Islamic Revolutionaries (pro-USrael). With the exception of a dozen, the rest of the candidates are expected to be weed out by the Council. Notable among the presidential hopeful are; Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad’s chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, former Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, former parliament Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel, former Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, former vice president Mohammad Reza Aref and former commander of the Revolutionary Guard Mohsen Rezai. All of them have claimed that they intend to follow the Rehbar Ayatullah Ali Khameie’s foreign policy regarding the US, Israel and Palestinian resistance against the Jewish occupation. However, as a practice, Khamenie has not thrown his support behind any of the hopeful.

Ayatullah Mohammad Khatami, a “moderate” by the Zionist-controlled western media, has decided not to face Iranian voters. He, along with Reformists has thrown his support behind Rafsanjani – hoping not to face political humilation during the 2009 when Ahmadinejad was re-elected by securing 62.63% votes by defeating his main rival, Western-supported former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi. The 2009 election also marked the highest turnout (85%).

Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei is already in trouble with the Council which has lodged a legal complaint against president Ahmadinejad for accompanying Mashaei to the interior ministry to register his name.

Alex Vatanka, an Iranian expert at Washington-based Middle East Institute, a neocon think tank, headed by former US ambassador in Pakistan, Wendy J. Chamberlin, in an article posted at Lobe Log, has claimed that Rafsanjani’s victory in the upcoming presidential election would be good for both the US and Israel.

“Rafsanjani has already started with a bomb. Last week, he effectively impugned Tehran’s stance on Israel and offered the view that Iran should not be in the business of confronting Israel. “If the Arabs end up in a war with Israel, Iran can provide material support to the Arabs”, but that is it and no more. In other words, Ayatollah Rafsanjani, who has for a long time argued for better relations between Iran and the US, is raising the ante and even challenging the regime’s long-held immovable enmity toward Israel,” wrote Vatanka.

Ali Mamouri at pro-Israel Jewish website, Al-Monitor (May 13), also bet on Rafsanjani’s victory.

The Zionist regime is very affraid of a military retalition from Syria or Lebanese Islamic Resistance Hizbullah in response to Israel’s two unprovoked airstrikes over Damascus early this month. The Zionist regime has called upon its American Hasbara media to blackmail its adversaries in Syria and Lebanon.

On May, 15, the New York Times’ White House Jewish correspondent Mark Aurel Landler quoted a senior official of Netanyahu regime, as saying: “Israel has so far refrained from intervening in Syria’s civil war and will maintain this policy as long as Assad refrains from attacking Israel directly or indirectly. If Syrian President Assad reacts by attacking Israel, or tries to strike Israel through his terrorist proxies, he will risk forfeiting his regime, for Israel will retaliate“.

The NYT story came at the heel of Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah’s statement that Hizbullah is ready to receive any game-changing weapons the Syrian government offer, stressing that Hizbullah stands by the side of Syrian popular resistance until liberating the occupied Golan Heights.

The NYT has a history of pathetic reporting when it comes to occupied Palestine and the Muslim world at large.

Israel has a long history of interfering in its neighboring countries, such as, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. Jewish army invaded Lebanon three times and kept South Lebanon under its occupation for 20 years until it was forced by Hizbullah to withdraw in 2000. Then the Jewish army invaded Lebanon in 2006, but received an humilating defeat at the hands of Hizbullah resistance fighters.

In 1981, eight F-16s under the protection of six F-15 Israeli jets (all donated by Washington) bombed and destroyed a nuclear facility under construction at Osirak near Baghdad. In 2003, Israeli agents convinced Bush administration to invade and occupy Iraq for Israel over Baghdad’s non-existent WMDs.

Successive Zionist regimes have been trying to install an Israeli-puppet regime in Baghdad for decades.

In 2007, Israeli jets attacked Syria’s al-Kibar nuclear research facility. Early this month, Israel carried two unprovoked airstrikes over Damascus airport. Some analysts even believe that Israel used a US-supplied nuclear bunker buster bomb in the recent airstrikes. Several such bombs were given to Israel by the Bush administration, to be used against Iran’s underground nuclear facilities.

For over two years, the US-Israel-Saudi Axis of Evil have been trying desperately to install an anti-Resistance regime in Baghdad. Syrian president Bashar Assad has kept his father’s (Hafiz Assad) policy of “no war with Israel” so far. However, lately, he has joined Iran’s led Hizbullah-Hamas-Syria-Iraqi Axis of Resistance against the Zionist entity.

Spencer Ackerman, a Zionist Jewish journalist wrote in the WIRED Danger Room, on May 2, 2013 that even Obama’s arms supply to Syrian rebel would not succeed in bringing Assad regime down. He also quoted Christopher Harmer, a former US Navy officer and analyst with the Institute for the Study of War, a pro-Israel think tank, saying: “The Syrian regime is not collapsing, nor is it on the verge of collapse. Everyone has been saying that for about 18 months. It has contracted, and may be forced to contract further; as long as they have control of their chemical weapons, I don’t think there is a collapse scenario.”