Baztab, Iranian state-run website, evaluated the report by Gen. Petraeus and Ryan Crocker to the U.S. Congress to be against the Iranian regime and Nouri al-Maliki’s government and wrote: The report has sharply targeted Iran, and in order to decline the pressure by the Congress to reduce the number of US troops in Iraq, has announced the in competency and weakness of al-Maliki’s government as a pretext for prolonging the presence of US forces in this country.