I think they will use this as an excuse to link Syria and Iran. A greater Islamic Caliphate.
Posted on 06/15/2014 8:41:13 PM PDT by Star Traveler
Iran has sent 2,000 advance troops to Iraq in the past 48 hours to help tackle a jihadist insurgency, a senior Iraqi official has told the Guardian.
The confirmation comes as the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, said Iran was ready to support Iraq from the mortal threat fast spreading through the country, while the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, called on citizens to take up arms in their country's defence.
Addressing the country on Saturday, Maliki said rebels from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) had given "an incentive to the army and to Iraqis to act bravely". His call to arms came after reports surfaced that hundreds of young men were flocking to volunteer centres across Baghdad to join the fight against Isis.
The Iraqi official said 1,500 basiji forces had crossed the border into the town of Khanaqin, in Diyala province, in central Iraq on Friday, while another 500 had entered the Badra Jassan area in Wasat province overnight. The Guardian confirmed on Friday that Major General Qassem Suleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force, had arrived in Baghdad to oversee the defence of the capital.
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All we can do is hope this war lasts a thousand years.
As you munch your popcorn, will you think about the 5,000 American lives lost?
Iran is thereto grab what they can while the grabbing is easy. Obama steps aside and invites them to the party.
I worry that Obama will use this as an excuse to strike Syria and then Iran.
Russia will not stand idly by this time like they had to when we struck Serbia.
Obama is incompetent to deal with this mess.
WW3 here we come.
I think they will use this as an excuse to link Syria and Iran. A greater Islamic Caliphate.
That’s no reason to help a deadly enemy of the USA, and the biggest exporter of TERRORISM of any nation in the world!
Are you talking about Iran, or Russia?
I hope the two sides balance each other PERFECTLY and have loads of cash to buy our guns.
BOTH sides.
Allied with Putin.
I think it was a typo meant to read: "If Iraq wants help from the USA . . . it should give ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to Iran."
No, I actually meant ... IRAN ... as in the Persian Mullahs ...
Quoting from the article ...
“In Iran, Rouhani raised the prospect of Teheran cooperating with its old enemy Washington to defeat the Sunni insurgent group – which is attempting to ignite a sectarian war beyond Iraq’s borders.”
Iran troops that go in will never depart, methinks this is the opening act of take over
The final phase of the original Iran-Iraq war.
I’m talking about IRAN ... who is the deadliest enemy of the USA and the world’s largest exporter of Islamic Terrorism, bar none!
Just like allying with Stalin in WWII.
Believe it or not, I thought that I was on another thread. My apologies.
No ... in this example the correct way to portray it to show what I mean, it would be like the USA allying with Hitler and the Third Reich to defeat the USSR, thereby making it easier for Hitler to impose his will on the rest of the world.
Allying with Iran is like allying with Hitler!
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