In an interview to the Dubai-based Al Arabiya news channel, Mubarak"expressed alarm about Shia Iran’s influence in Arab countries."

There are Shias in all these countries (of the region), significant percentages, and Shias are mostly always loyal to Iran and not the countries where they live. Naturally, Iran has an influence over Shias who make up 65 per cent of Iraq’s population.

But the BBC does not report it. It only reports that he his warning about an Iraqi civil war.

Why? Because the first comment does not further the BBC's chosen narrative while the second does. Moreover, exposing Mubarak for the underhanded provocateur he is would undermine the credibility of that all so wanted prediction.