Iran declares war on U.S.

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | April 5th 2004 | Joseph Farah

[F14 Pilot]

Nobody else is saying it, so, once again, it is left to me to explain what really happened in Iraq yesterday.

Iran declared war on the U.S.

The signs have been there for a long time. I don't know if they have been intentionally ignored by U.S. forces in Iraq, or whether there is some master plan at the Defense Department to deal with this scenario.

All I can tell you is we are now fighting a regional war. Our local opposition in Iraq is being trained, armed and directed with foreign support – by neighboring Iran.

The uprising yesterday was treated in many initial news accounts as a spontaneous uprising directed by Najaf cleric Moktada al-Sadr.

What the other news accounts left out was one significant, but well-established fact: Al-Sadr works for Iran. He is an Iranian agent. His authority comes from Iran.

Last April, an Iranian cleric, Kadhem al-Husseini al-Haeri, issued a religious edict and distributed to Shiite mullahs in Iraq, calling on them "to seize the first possible opportunity to fill the power vacuum in the administration of Iraqi cities."

The edict, or fatwa, issued April 8, 2003, showed that Shiite clerics in Iraq are receiving significant direction from Iran. The edict said that Shiite leaders have to "seize as many positions as possible to impose a fait accompli for any coming government."

"People have to be taught not to collapse morally before the means used by the Great Satan if it stays in Iraq," the fatwa read. "It will try to spread moral decay, incite lust by allowing easy access to stimulating satellite channels and spread debauchery to weaken people's faith."

The fatwa also instructed the cleric's followers to "raise people's awareness of the Great Satan's plans and of the means to abort them."

On April 7, the day American troops effectively toppled Hussein's government by seizing its main seats of power in Baghdad, al-Haeri sent a handwritten letter to the city of Najaf, appointing Moktada al-Sadr as his deputy in Iraq.

Haeri wrote: "We hereby inform you that Mr. Moktada al-Sadr is our deputy and representative in all fatwa affairs."

It added: "His position is my position."

Also last April, WorldNetDaily reported that Iran had armed and trained some 40,000 Shiite Iraqi fighters – most former prisoners of war captured during the Iran-Iraq war – and sent them to Iraq to foment an Islamic revolution. The report originated in my premium, online, intelligence newsletter G2 Bulletin.

The report said this small army represents the vanguard of Iran's effort to subvert the U.S.-led liberation of Iraq and use the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime for its own ends.

"Ayatollah Mohammed Bakir Khakim is on record pledging more than once to his followers a plan to impose Islamic rule over Iraq with the help of Iran," reports G2 Bulletin. "The Tehran ayatollahs, or the Pasadran, the powerful revolutionary guard, repeatedly have been telling the Iraqis they would be their legitimate allies and partners. In such a scenario, there is no room for the U.S. The coalition that liberated Iraq is seen by the Iraqi Shiite militants and their Iranian sponsors as a tool for handing Iraq over to them without the need to use a massive force of their own."

Iran has clear objectives in Iraq. The only question is whether the United States still has clear objectives in Iraq – and whether Washington recognizes that this war front just got wider.

[Fledermaus]

I don't like the "lesser of two evils" choice.

Sure, the Dems won't do anything. But what is Bush going to do in Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, etc? Answer: nothing.

He played his hand in Iraq and now has to make it work. I don't think things are near as bad as the press makes out, but it's clear Bush and his cabinet didn't make the proper plans. They let the UN and the left control their movements. They wasted time letting Powell persuade them to use diplomatic efforts.

They appeased the French, Germans and Russians and got stabbed in the back and then did almost NOTHING to punish them beyond denying them access to Iraq rebuilding contracts that, to this day, have YET to be spent. Why?

Why does Bush let the bureaucracy drag on like every pinhead government official? Too much of his daddy and not enough of his mommy in him if you ask me. And I'm almost afraid his born again Christian attitudes blind him to the evil of the left, the Dems, the entrenched bureaucracy.

I say let them rot in hell and play hardball. Screw the "new tone". You can't compromise with evil. I'm sick of people thinking we need a "viable two-party system". I say wipe them out...all of them. Clinton, Schumer, Kennedy, Daschle, et al...worthless human scum that should be defeated at all cost and the states that put them in office should be made to suffer for their stupidity.

But then, that's just my opinion. I don't play "mister nice guy" any longer. I want hell and damnation brought to every MoveOn.org creep, every DU jerk and every single idiot that taxes me to death because they lack simple common sense and want the fruits of MY labor.

So sue me.

[The Duke]

Were Afghanistan and Iraq fingers, then Iran would be the "mother of all zits"! The leaders there should tread carefully, and use their brains before using their mouths.

[endthematrix]

"Bush isn't going to to anything to Iran OR Syria in an "election year". "

Uh, remember Congress? When did the US need a WMD excuse to invade Iraq anyway? As for Iran, the US should have kicked the crap out of the Ayatollah and restored the Shah.

As for you getting a clue to elitism in both parties, congrats. Don't split off and get disenfranchised with fighting the good fight and work with those who are the best for the job AT HAND, which is liquidating the terrorists.

[F14 Pilot]

It takes time and it doesnt depend on Bush only... All freedom fighters in the world should help the way he started after 9/11.

[endthematrix]

"I think the real problem is the Mullahs, Imams and Ayatollahs."

Look at you TV. Those mobs hanging corpses and rushing serviceman aren't Mullahs, Imams and Ayatollahs.

[pt17]

Look at you TV. Those mobs hanging corpses and rushing serviceman aren't Mullahs, Imams and Ayatollahs

LOL, that's like suggesting since the shooters in the St. Valentines Day massacre weren't Al Capone, Al wasn't the problem.

If you're going to kill a snake, I might suggest you start at the head, lest you get bitten before you're done. The Mullahs, Imams, Ayatollahs are the instigators (i.e., the head of the mob).

[F14 Pilot]

I agree.

[F14 Pilot]

Thought you might like this post.

[Robert_Paulson2]

Sistani, whose position on all this unrest is not being reported

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I wonder to whose advantage that would be?
not rhetorical. I really do wonder. Iran, or us?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

What the other news accounts left out was one significant, but well-established fact: Al-Sadr works for Iran. He is an Iranian agent. His authority comes from Iran.

I thought that was the case.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Thanks for the ping. Farah usually calls them correctly.

Some have thought this was the play all along. First secure Afghanistan on the east, Pakistan on the south, Iraq on the west...then SQUEEZE.

Works for me.

[Joe Boucher]

You sir are way to liberal and easy on the vermin scum of the middle east and the American left.
If you think your views are way out there you should see what is in my mind.
Kennedy should go see his brothers. Nuke Iran, Iraq Syria and saudi Arabia. Then I'd have a real good nights sleep. Cause if you don't hit them first, they surely are eventually going to hit us.

[meenie]

The Mullahs stirring the Shiites in the South are repatriates from Iran. Sistani and Sadr were both exiles that returned from Iran when the US moved into Iraq. The clue that rough times are ahead is that they have a popular following even though they forsook the hardship that the Iraqi Shiites endured under Sadaam. Another fly in the ointment are the Sunnis which have been so beliggerent in Fallujah is that they have common allies in Syria and Saudi Arabia. Syria cooperates with Iran with terrorism against Israel. Saudi Arabia has just recently signed a trade pact with Iran as well as a security agreement. The United States would be so lucky as to have nation states in the Middle East rise up against them. We can defeat them on a large battlefield basis. They can bleed us to death as they are now doing. This is the route that the Arabs will take. If the Sunnis and Shiites throw together as it appears they are doing, all hell will break loose.

[Tailgunner Joe]

A follower of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al Sadr joins a protest against
the closure of the newspaper Al Hawza in front of the headquarters of
the U.S.-led administration in Baghdad, April 2, 2004.
Photo by Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters

[dyed_in_the_wool]

Curiously enough, the majority of Muslims in Iraq are Shi'ite. Saddam was Sunni as is the core of heaviest resistance.

Remember, Iraq is not a pure, socialogical country. When the Brits divided up the Ottoman Empire after WWI (lookup Sykes-Picot) they were more interested in setting up weak proxy states.
Thus, there are Kurdish areas in Iraq, Iran and Turkey (the Brits who annexed Iraq, wanted those northern oil fields).
The French got Syria.
The rest got some form or another of self-rule.
Curiously enough, in establishing a Zionist homeland, the Brits took part of Jordan and allowed Jews to BUY the land from Palestinians. That's right, they PAID for their land.
The Palis never, ever, ever had a country.
Not once in history.
Crazy, huh?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I like your homepage, Amelie. 8~)

[goldstategop]

There's little doubt Iran has made it move. Moqtada al-Sadr's guys took over the government offices in Basra. They're hoping for a successful coup d'etat along the lines of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917. Let's put a swift end to this fantasy they have of a theocratic state in Iraq friendly to terrorists and hostile to the Great Satan, shall we? Let's roll!!!

[Savage Beast]

The people of the West, especially "Liberals", which include most journalists, refuse to face reality because it is too frightening and horrible to contemplate, but sooner or later reality is going to face them. The people of the West had better maintain their strength. They're going to need it.

[F14 Pilot]

Little doubt????????
I have no doubt that Iran has made this move. Don't forget that Iran has given Sadr $ 25 Milion last year.
He went to Tehran to meet Former Iranian president, Rafsanjani, and he gave him credit to kill US Military and innocent people in Iraq.

[jocon307]

"[T]he Mullahs, Imams and Ayatollahs....need to be visited in the middle of the night for some frank discussions."

Yes, they most definately do. It's not clear to me why this hasn't happened already.

What is clear to me is that we failed to kill enough Iraqis during the war itself. We need to remember that in future conflicts. All the guys who ran away have lived to fight another day, and that is not a good thing.