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Iranian official: "All of the Middle East is Iranian"

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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">The Persian Empire Reborn</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Today, Iran has become an empire again, as it was throughout history. <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><u>Its capital is Baghdad</u></b>,</span>
 the center of our culture and identity as in the past. The geography of
 Iran and Iraq is indivisible, just as our culture is indivisible. <span style="background-color: white;">All of the Middle East is Iranian</span> and its people are part of Iran. We intend to form an Iranian Union in this region.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/721966" target="_blank">Iranian Presidential Adviser Ali Younesi</a></span></span></div>
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  -  Iran is once again an empire whose influence extends to Iraq and 
beyond, a top Iranian presidential advisor said Sunday, days after Saudi
 Arabia expressed alarm that “Iran is taking over Iraq."</span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“At the
 moment Iraq is not only the bastion of our civilization, it is also our
 identity, culture and capital and this is true now as in the past,” Ali
 Younesi, an advisor to the Iranian president said at a forum on Iran’s 
ethnic identifies.</span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">“The geography of Iran and Iraq cannot be divided,”</span><span style="background-color: white;"> said Younesi, a former intelligence minister, speaking at a Tehran forum titled “Iran: nationality, history and heritage."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“All of
 the Middle East is Iranian,” Younesi declared, warning that no one had 
the right to oppose Iran’s influence in the region.</span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He said
 that people now living in neighboring countries are also Iranian 
“because their countries were separated from the empire east and west."</span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Protecting
 our security and historical national identity would not be possible 
unless we look at our influence in the region,” the ISNA news agency 
quoted Younesi as saying.</span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Iran “does not eye beyond its borders but a natural unification in the region is on the table right now,” he declared.</span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I do 
not mean that we should once again conquer the world, I mean that we 
have to remain vigilant and know where we stand,” he said. “We have to 
think globally but act Iranian."</span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Younesi
 said that, as Iranian forces back the Iraqi army in its war with 
Islamic State (ISIS), “our historical rivals are upset and they help our
 enemies to spite us."</span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">In a clear jibe at archrivals Saudi Arabia and Turkey, Younesi said Tehran’s military involvement in the region is to </span><span style="background-color: white;"><b><u>“protect the Iranian people against the Wahabis and Ottoman rule.”</u></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Iranian influence has grown tremendously in Iraq and beyond since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq upset the regional balance.</span></span></div>
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