Iranian forces crossed Iraqi border: report

AFP ^ | 06/25/07

[Rutles4Ever]

Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces have been spotted by British troops crossing the border into southern Iraq, The Sun tabloid reported on Tuesday.

Britain's defence ministry would not confirm or deny the report, with a spokesman declining to comment on "intelligence matters".

An unidentified intelligence source told the tabloid: "It is an extremely alarming development and raises the stakes considerably. In effect, it means we are in a full on war with Iran -- but nobody has officially declared it."

"We have hard proof that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps have crossed the border to attack us. It is very hard for us to strike back. All we can do is try to defend ourselves. We are badly on the back foot."

The Sun said that radar sightings of Iranian helicopters crossing into the Iraqi desert were confirmed to it by very senior military sources.

In response to the report, a British defence ministry spokesman said: "There is evidence that explosive devices used against our troops in southern Iraq originated in Iran."

"Any Iranian link to armed militias in Iraq either through weapons supply, training or funding are unacceptable."

Britain has about 7,100 soldiers in Iraq, most of whom are based in the southern city of Basra and surrounding areas, though the government has pledged to reduce that to between 5,000 and 5,500 this year.

[Rutles4Ever]

Looks like Syria and Iran are looking to blow the Middle East wide open. Could be a long summer in the desert.

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[rodguy911]

Why didn’t we scramble some jets and blow them off the face of the earth?

[Cementjungle]

"Any Iranian link to armed militias in Iraq either through weapons supply, training or funding are unacceptable."

That was probably the extent of our response, issuing a statement that it's "unacceptable".

[EagleUSA]

Whatever happened to the Bush Doctrine???

[silverleaf]

explains the build up of US carriers in/near the Gulf

Also an attack on Iraq would be a useful Iranian distraction to divert the West in the event Iran and Syria plan to sponsor another war against Israel

[elhombrelibre]

Iranian forces in Iraq ping.

[veryconernedamerican]

apparantly he already has.

[randog]

So is Bush going to offer them amnesty as well?

Just Iranians doing the jobs Iraqis won't do.

[DuncanWaring]

Why didn’t we scramble some jets and blow them off the face of the earth?

Because President Bush is a Compassionate Conservative.

[rodguy911]

IT’s hard to figure out the rules of this war.

[veryconernedamerican]

Most likely this has been seen alot and we have to decided to out it now from some reason, most likely to up the ante a bit

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Don’t smell quite rite to me...

[do the dhue]

Could be a long summer in the desert

Or better yet, it could be a short one:

[Bahbah]

Don’t smell quite rite to me...

Me either.

[caisson71]

It’s been emasculated by Congress - with the threat of cuts in war funding - and the American people - by putting Dimocraps in charge of the purse strings again.

[Thud]

Unconfirmed.

[verity]

It would be advisable to wait for confirmation from an authoritative source before suffering a self inflicted wedgie. :-)

[rodguy911]

It's one thing for us to cross their border and do some damage, we would never hear the end form the traitorous msm but when they cross Iraq's border what holds us back? I really don't get it.