Does this raise any red flags for anyone?Iran has sent 2,000 advance troops to Iraq in the past 48 hours to help tackle a jihadist insurgency, a senior Iraqi official has told the Guardian.
The confirmation comes as the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, said Iran was ready to support Iraq from the mortal threat fast spreading through the country, while the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, called on citizens to take up arms in their country's defence.
Addressing the country on Saturday, Maliki said rebels from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) had given "an incentive to the army and to Iraqis to act bravely". His call to arms came after reports surfaced that hundreds of young men were flocking to volunteer centres across Baghdad to join the fight against Isis.
In Iran, Rouhani raised the prospect of Teheran cooperating with its old enemy Washington to defeat the Sunni insurgent group – which is attempting to ignite a sectarian war beyond Iraq's borders.
Iran sends troops into Iraq to aid fight against Isis militants | World news | theguardian.com
Does this raise any red flags for anyone?
Iran sends troops into Iraq to aid fight against Isis militants | World news | theguardian.com
Does this raise any red flags for anyone?
Absolutly not.
If you compare shia fanatics and suni fanatics one can come to the only conclusion that the suni fanatics are by a thousand times worse.
I dont mind who kills ISIS before they take over Iraq.
Does this raise any red flags for anyone?
The only red flag I could see would be a possible attempt by Iran to turn Iraq into a puppet state. I would be HIGHLY suspicious of any time Iran wishes to cooperate with the US.
The only red flag I could see would be a possible attempt by Iran to turn Iraq into a puppet state. I would be HIGHLY suspicious of any time Iran wishes to cooperate with the US.
Al-Maliki began his political career as a Shia dissident under Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in the late 1970s and rose to prominence after he fled a death sentence into exile for 24 years. During his time abroad, he became a senior leader of Dawa, coordinated the activities of anti-Saddam guerrillas and built relationships with Iranian and Syrian officials whose help he sought in overthrowing Saddam.
On 16 July 1979, al-Maliki fled Iraq after he was discovered to be a member of the outlawed Islamic Dawa Party. According to a brief biography on the Islamic Dawa Party's website, he left Iraq via Jordan in October, and soon moved to Syria, adopting the pseudonym "Jawad". He left Syria for Iran in 1982, where he lived in Tehran until 1990, before returning to Damascus where he remained until U.S. coalition forces invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam's regime in 2003.[5] While living in Syria, he worked as a political officer for Dawa, developing close ties with Hezbollah and particularly with Iran, supporting that country's effort to topple Saddam's regime.[6]
Eastern Iran already is under alot of Iranian influence.
It`s the country with the most significant shia holy sights and with a significant shia minority.
I think there is nothing that can be done against the growing Iranian influence in Iraq, besides maybe a resurgence of Arab nationalism - which is also a non to good thing.
Seems like they are actually trying to clean up the mess.Iran sends troops into Iraq to aid fight against Isis militants | World news | theguardian.com
Does this raise any red flags for anyone?
Iran sends troops into Iraq to aid fight against Isis militants | World news | theguardian.com
Does this raise any red flags for anyone?
Of course it does. If we hadn't gone in and installed a shiite led government, they wouldn't be doing this.
Now conservatives are getting all up in arms because we're not doing enough to support said government. Which is supported by Iran.
the ironic thing is how conservatives don't see how this mess in iraq is actually a problem for iran.
Seems like they are actually trying to clean up the mess.
Obama RELEASED warlord head of ISIS extremist army five years ago | Mail Online
'We either arrested or killed a man of that name about half a dozen times, he is like a wraith who keeps reappearing, and I am not sure where fact and fiction meet,' Lieutenant-General Sir Graeme Lamb, a former British special forces commander, told The Telegraph.
'There are those who want to promote the idea that this man is invincible, when it may actually be several people using the same nom de guerre.'
Or not:
Even more Ironic is how liberals don't seem to realize how this Problem all came about and from BO's inaction and being indecisive. As well as completely incompetent when it comes to his Foreign policy.
Also that at this moment.....how he has no plans. No focus and is considering working with Iran. Thinking he will be able to get them to break over their Nuke talks and better relations between us. He has been wrong.....on Libya, Syria, Egypt and the MB, Iraq and Afghanistan. Then Asia. Then the rest of Africa.
But then with him running around and telling all how the world is less violent, more tolerant, and more stable. Tends to show why BO.....is completely out of touch with reality and the world that keeps passing him by.
Not me, just as long as we are not there.Iran sends troops into Iraq to aid fight against Isis militants | World news | theguardian.com
Does this raise any red flags for anyone?
From the Guardian.....According to Reuters there are no talks with the US and Iran going on with this matter for the moment. So I am wondering what BO and his Team are saying about the Iranians in Iraq and setting defense for Baghdad.
Residents offered little reaction to Barack Obama's statement late on Friday in which he appeared to condition renewed US military support on Iraqi leaders first making efforts to pull the country back from the brink. The US and Iran, foes throughout the US occupation of Iraq, share a common interest in defeating Isis, and Iran has so far expressed no opposition to US threats to send military support to Maliki.
Rouhani, asked at a televised press conference on Saturday whether Tehran could work with the US to tackle Isis, said: "We can think about it if we see America starts confronting the terrorist groups in Iraq or elsewhere. We all should practically and verbally confront terrorist groups."
Reuters reported US officials as saying there were no contacts taking place with Iran over the crisis in Iraq.....snip~
Do you think this is coming as a surprise to BO and his Team with the Iranians seeing BO hesitate.
Despite trying to say it's all Obama, the mess wouldn't exist without Bush. The only relatively viable foil to Iran was Saddam. Nobody else outside of Israel has the military to compete.
I'm not saying that Saddam was a good guy or should have been in power. But when you install a democracy in a shiite-majority country (with major sectarian problems) right next to Iran....it really doesn't take a genius to figure out what could happen.
Iran sends troops into Iraq to aid fight against Isis militants | World news | theguardian.com
Does this raise any red flags for anyone?
Iran sends troops into Iraq to aid fight against Isis militants | World news | theguardian.com
Does this raise any red flags for anyone?
No! Iran has denied this and I trust them more than the Mainstream Media. The Media is always projecting some agenda supplied by the Intelligence Agencies instead of honest reporting by personnel in the field. Stenographers and presstitutes, per usual.
I don't have a problem with Obama's comments here. When you have a trained Iraqi army abandoning their equipment and posts against Al-Qaeda without even putting up a fight, I don't want U.S. troops in there. If they don't want to defend their freedom at all, then there is no reason U.S. troops should be sent there.
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