Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State, said: A stable Iraq function as an obstacle to increasing ambitions of the Iranian regime in the Middle East, but an unstable Iraq acts as abridge for them.

“Despite Iranian regime’s claim that it didn’t want to destabilize southern Iraq, the US had told them: “Their behavior is quite strange and they must pay the price of what they are doing”, said the United States Secretary of State .

Rice expressed her opposition to partition and division of Iraq and emphasized that US Senate resolution is non-binding.