All this is bad news for Iran's Revolutionary Guard who saw a hegemony including Syria disolve with last Septembers Israeli strike against a nuclear reactor that was proven to have N. Korean and Iranian staff support. North Korea was brought up short, and to the "disarmament" table. The Iranians will take years to recoup in Syria.The Iranians have nothing they can do now but attack US soldiers with their own military inside of Iraq.
If Iran does not pull back on its illegal activity, then we can indeed expect a limited operation to destroy the supply lines which have brought ordnance and Iranian personnel into Iraq.The intelligence data of Iranian involvement is quite irrefutable and has been gathered for a long time, including de-briefings of Iranian officers apprehended inside of Iraq.
The threat of force seems to be the only thing that gets Iran's attention, and Iran's reaction has been to attempt to provoke military incidents or conflict at times and places of Iran's chosing.
Now Iran knows that the military response is coming, and the waiting is actually driving them quite crazy, mistakes are being made by the Iranians as a consequence.
Interesting US strategy.This whole thing has the mark of Dick Cheny upon it, and thank goodness we have him!
GOD am I sick of the middle east stuff. I thought they were freaky back in grade school but I never imagined we would have to hear about all their BS everyday.