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Thanks for the link to the Daily star here is an article there from
Asharq al-Awsat (London)

The warm welcome extended in Iraq to Shiite Imam Hussein Khomeini, grandson of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of modern-day Iran, showed Washington was hanging great hopes on him, columnist Rida Mohammed Lari said Wednesday.
Khomeini was treated like a VIP and housed in a Baghdad palace that once belonged to former Iraqi strongman Ezzat Ibrahim Douri.
?There was even a warmer American welcome to Khomeini?s recent statements calling on the Americans to liberate Iran from its present rulers,? Lari added.
?The wide US support given to Khomeini?s call was aimed at justifying the legitimacy of the US role in Iraq, which was based on pre-war demands by Iraqi expatriates for intervention in Iraq.
?And now the same thing is happening with the Iranian expatriates calling for a US armed intervention in Iran to turn the tables on the authorities in Tehran,? she said.
?The overwhelming support given to Khomeini in Iraq was meant by the US administration?s hawks to curb the rising Shiite opposition to the US armed presence and to show the US public that Washington?s role was just as needed in Iraq as it was in Iran,? the columnist said.
Khomeini?s welcome was also important in refuting a recent report by a US congressional committee calling on US forces to leave Iraq ?to preserve their lives and safeguard America?s pride from being trampled if the forces have to be withdrawn in a hurry.?
The columnist suggested that a rising proportion of Americans are opposing the Iraqi war by ridiculing the democratic ideas that were advanced by the US administration to justify the war. A similar rising proportion of Americans are opposing the emergency law passed by US Attorney General John Ashcroft giving the authorities the right to detain and imprison US nationals without court trial making America?s democratic system even more flimsy.
The columnist claimed that the US was now preparing to go to war against Iran based on a false understanding that the Iranian community was divided into three tribes whose disagreement among themselves could bring about a civil war.
The US was once duped by Ayatollah Khomeini, who was helped by the US against the late shah. But after asserting his rule in Iran, Khomeini turned against the US and kicked it out after closing down the embassy and holding its diplomats hostages, Lari said.