First Karzai of Afghanistan praises Iran (see below), then today Prime Minister Maliki of Iraq visits the capital of the Axis of Evil itself, meeting with Ayatollah Khamenei, President Ahmadinejad, and others. Says AP:

Mr. Maliki met in Tehran with Iranian Vice President Parviz Davoodi and was to hold talks later with supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, according to the Iranian state news agency IRNA.

Fact is, Maliki must be worried that he might lose the support of the United States. Echoes of the Hadley memo from last winter. Come September, Bush is going to have to blame the continuing crisis in Iraq on someone, and it might as well be Maliki. Maliki, in turn, is smart enough to seek allies elsewhere.