Evidence Of Iranian Involvement In Iraq Mounts And Is Expansive

Strata Sphere ^ | Monday, May 5th, 2008 at 9:39 am | AJStrata

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The evidence of Iran’s military involvement in Iraq is growing rapidly as US and Iraqi forces take out the Mahdi Militia fighters. This evidence is bringing the situation between Iran and the US to a head, because the US cannot allow any nation to target its troops without responding with swift and deadly action. Otherwise it is open season on Americans around the world. If we don’t take action when our troops are killed then it means we are too weak-kneed to take action when any American is the target of foreign state aggression.

Michael Gordon of the NY Times notes today the Iran has allowed military training camps to be set up near Tehran where Iraqi militia fighters are trained by Hezbollah trainers (trained by Iranians originally, of course):

Militants from the Lebanese group Hezbollah have been training Iraqi militia fighters at a camp near Tehran, according to American interrogation reports that the United States has supplied to the Iraqi government.

An American official said the account of Hezbollah’s role was provided by four Shiite militia members who were captured in Iraq late last year and questioned separately.

The United States has long charged that the Iranians were training Iraqi militia fighters in Iran, which Iran has consistently denied, and there have been previous reports about Hezbollah operatives in Iraq.

But the Americans say the reports of Hezbollah’s role at the Iranian camp offer important details about Iranian assistance to the militias, including efforts Iran appears to be making to train the fighters in unobtrusive ways.

The thing to take away from this snippet is someone is running a military training camp outside Tehran. Here in the US we arrested people for attempting to perform military training using paintball guns

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The Iranians still deny it? LOL

Deny, deny, deny, and make counter acusations! It’s a big game. The next time we take some Iranian Quds forces as guests in Iraq, how should we deal with that? They are obviously not in Iraq under the flag of their country according to their own leadership.

[PsyOp]

"The Iraqi security issue is not separated from other issues in the Middle East," he said. "On the whole, security in the region is not divisible. If there is no security in Iraq , there is no security anywhere in the region. We look at the security of Iraq as a organic security package for the whole region."

This is the key statement of Iranian policy. They are admitting that supporting terrorist in Iraq and trying to destabilize the government is part of their larger goal of destroying Isreal and creating as many beholden puppet states in the middle east as they can.

Or, as Barak Hussein Obama might put it, "Iran could no more stop supporting terrorism in Iraq, than it could stop supporting it in Gaza, Isreal and Lebanon..."

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FARS.