Posted on 12/05/2019 4:10:53 AM PST by nuconvert
Leaked spy cables reveal how Iran came to dominate the political and military spheres in Iraq. Here’s what the hundreds of documents tell us.
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The leak exposed Iran’s vast influence in Iraq, detailing the painstaking efforts of Iranian spies to co-opt Iraqi leaders and infiltrate every aspect of political life.
The trove consists of roughly 700 pages of reports and cables written mainly in 2014 and 2015 by officers in Iran’s version of the C.I.A. who were based in Iraq.
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Many of the files show that as senior American diplomats met behind closed doors with their Iraqi counterparts in Baghdad and Kurdistan, their conversations were routinely reported back to the Iranians. A top political aide to a former speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, for example, was identified as an Iranian intelligence asset.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Thanks Obama.
No doubt the NYT thinks this is a GOOD thing.
Wait.
Aren’t the payments to Iran quid pro quo?
...reports and cables written mainly in 2014 and 2015 by officers in Iran’s version of the C.I.A.
Seomething tells me that the USA version of the CIA knows damn little what Iran’s version of the CIA is up to.
Shias gotta Shia
As I recall, MANY of us here on FR were saying this during the Iraq War and the Slimes and other Hoax News outlets were either ignoring it or downplaying it so as to stick it to W.
Valerie Jarrett was probably the one calling the ayatollahs,then Iran told her where Obama should send the pallets of cash in the middle of the night
BUT publishing stolen cables. Just like Wikileaks and Assange. But no governmental attacks.
Funny how that works
Thanks nuconvert.
The trove consists of roughly 700 pages of reports and cables written mainly in 2014 and 2015 by officers in Iran’s version of the C.I.A. who were based in Iraq.
Not too sure anyone needed leaked reports from 2014 and 2015 to figure out that the post-Saddam regime was a Shiite-head monstrosity.
Our leaders are scratching their heads about how Iran became influential in Iraq. It never occurs to them that about 65% of Iraq is shia who don’t want to be dominated by the Sunni minority.
That was fast. Not 20 years out, and they already have an un-drained swamp. And you thought Obama never accomplished anything./s
Iran is on Obama. Iraq is on Bush. Sheesh, what a ridiculous charade all that was. Remember Paul Bremer? All the cash that he landed on the ground with? It was nothing but a study in how much money can be given away at unprecedented rates. What a failure of what was supposed to be the Marshall Plan of Iraq.
Seems the CIA knows a heck of a lot more the democratic opponents then it does anything else...
These payments were not a quid pro quo as explained in the long detailed link below. This money dates back to Carter and Reagan and the overthrow of the Shah. Iran had alredy paid for weapons that we then did NOT deliver. More recently the case was being tried in international court with 3 US, 3 Iranian, and 3 neutral votes. It looked like we would loose and to reduce the likelihood of a very large payment that might take years to settle, we negotiated a more reasonable immediate settlement. We held up making the first agreed payment until some US hostages were actually being returned, but the Iranian press tried to paint this as a ransom, not a long worked on settlement of a very old debt.
https://www.vox.com/2016/9/7/12830688/us-iran-cash-payment-ransom
My son, currently in Special Forces, served in Gulf War 1. He was in Saudi Arabia 6 days after Iraq invaded Kuwait and served over there until April 1992. Three months before the Bush 2 war in Iraq I asked him how many troops would be needed to retake Iraq. He said 450,000. Gen Shinsecki(sp?) was fired by Bush for saying we needed 350,000. If Bush was going to act at all it needed to be in Spring before the brutal summer heat. He could not wait for fall or next spring as it would be too near his next election. After his year there, Bremer subsequently said we should have had 500,000 to do it properly. We should not have fired the entire Iraq army, rather just the top officers. This left a major power vacuum.
Enter stage left—Muqtada Al-Sadr. From a revered Shia cleric family he filled that vacuum. The article below describes in fascinating detail his rise, shifts, changes, and evolution. As of 2018 he was moving to reduce the religious element in Iraq politics, making friendly moves toward Saudi Arabia (2017) and moving away from Iran. When Kemal Ataturk in Turkey declared a secular government in the 1920s and 30s it became a smart move toward a more successful Turkey. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kemal-Ataturk
“Sadr has taken the same stance against Turkey and Russia, Asadi says — warning them not to intervene in Iraq. Implicitly, in demanding that all foreign forces leave, he has also called for the removal of Iranian fighters. His opposition to Iranian influence puts Sadr in rare agreement with the United States.”
“He’s become an Iraqi nationalist as opposed to an Iraqi Shiite Islamist,” says Robert Ford, a former U.S. ambassador who served in Iraq as deputy chief of mission. “I don’t think it’s American policy to try to dominate Iraq. We simply would like it to be sovereign and independent rather than a vassal state of Iran next door so if Sadr can promote that, it’s in line with American policy objectives.”
Thank you for your detailed reply. I appreciate it in the historical context as I vaguely recall some of this debate.
But let’s not kid ourselves, Sadr like many of those “leaders” there is a thug. He was a tool of Iran, no idea how people wish to cast him today.
What bothers me more now is the gains made were utterly abandoned in Iraq and rendered the country a satellite under the control of Iran.
So yeah, thanks Obama and Valerie Jarret the Iranian red diaper baby.
[Thanks Obama.]
All according to his father’s plan. The prince of the power of the air.
Who do the Iranians think they are, Democrats?
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