The politicians who grilled Condoleezza Rice about reconciliation with Iran are the personification of Lenin’s “useful idiots.”

Here’s a good look at the thinking of the mullahs, in an article from the Tehran Times; these are the people Sen. Lincoln Chafee thinks we should give a big hug: U.S. plans to rig election or orchestrate a coup in Iraq: Leader. (Hat tip: Steven Den Beste.)

The Iraqi nation and leaders want to hold elections for establishing a popular government derived from the will of the people and for the sake of a free, independent and undivided Iraq. From their viewpoint, the elections are the means to ending military occupation and the political control of the U.S. and Britain. To them, the elections should put an end to the vicious presence of the Zionists, who have alighted on the banks of the Euphrates in the shadow of American arms and seem to have found some kind of a partial fulfillment of their garbled dream of a land extending “from the Nile to the Euphrates.” To them, the elections should provide for a transition from sectarian and ethnic conflict—itself incited by the malice of the common enemies—to brotherhood and national unity.

But the elections have a different objective within the fantasies of the occupiers. In the guise of popular elections, they want to impose on the people their own mercenaries, most of whom, on account of past connections with the Baath Party, are abject and docile puppets in the hands of the occupiers. With the assistance of these mercenaries, the occupiers seek to relieve themselves of the expenditures of military presence and to finance them at the cost of the Iraqi people and from their oil revenues.

In this postmodern colonialism, the foreign puppets are not appointed directly by the colonial power. Rather, the helm of the government is taken over by the puppets through the process of elections wherein the will of the people is superseded and set aside through fraud or with well-known stratagems. The facade will be that of a democracy, while in reality it will be the absolute dominance of aliens over the fate of a hapless people.

Now there are two great dangers which loom over the Iraqi elections. The first is that of outright fraud and manipulation of the popular vote—something which is a specialty of the Americans. If the Iraqi elite and the country’s educated and politically active youth, working day-and-night, are able to prevent such a fraud and succeed in bringing a popular government into power, there appears the prospect of a second danger: the danger of a military coup and imposition of another dictatorship over the destiny of the Iraqi nation.

Note how well the academic far left’s rhetoric (“postmodern colonialism,” no less) meshes with the propaganda needs of the Islamic fascists of Iran.