Posted on 03/20/2019 5:26:28 AM PDT by BeauBo
Iraq’s military chief said on Tuesday that the country plans to reopen a strategic border crossing with Syria (al Qaim - closed in 2013) in the coming days... Washington has expressed concern about Tehran’s ambitions to extend its weapons and military support to regional allies.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenational.ae ...
With the defeat of ISIS in Syria, the next phase of the conflict begins.
Iran is opening their long sought highway to the Israeli border.
They also just held meetings between the Defense Chiefs of Iran,Iraq and Syria, to call for the removal of the American Military presence.
The fall of ISIS in the American/Coalition Area of Responsibility marks the end of a major phase, and the beginning of the next.
Yeah. Thanks Bushes. Only that gang of crooks could push Iran and Iraq together. Their Saudi handlers must be so disppointed in them.
One of the downsides of pulling our troops out of Syria is giving up the base at al-qaim.
“They also just held meetings between the Defense Chiefs of Iran,Iraq and Syria”
Bump
A most important meeting. Freedom is NOT on the agenda of any of them.
Thanks for the post.
Here are 2 other good articles that are related and listed at your link.
Iran top of the agenda as US hosts GCC defence chiefs
https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/iran-top-of-the-agenda-as-us-hosts-gcc-defence-chiefs-1.839132
Syrian businessman linked to Bashar Al Assad arrested in Kuwait
https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/syrian-businessman-linked-to-bashar-al-assad-arrested-in-kuwait-1.838976
In is not unreasonable to ask if the re-opened border between Syria and Iraq will be a final “escape route” for ISIS, where, in competition against the Iran sponsored Shia militias in Iraq, ISIS will regroup and in time become a force again.
There is certainly enough anti-Shia, anti-Iran sentiment among the Sunni Muslims of Iraq, that only takes some Shia-favored bias by the government of Iraq to set Iraqi Sunni to looking at “extreme” solutions to dominance by the Shia. That is the fertile ground on which ISIS grew, in Iraq, before in moved into the destabilized Syrian mess.
Iran, unfortunately gained a strong foothold during the effort to oust ISIS in Iraq. They are largely in control in Baghdad.
The 2 tribes of Kurds were our allies, but lately they have partnered with Iran on some level. Not a good thing.
Syria is not like Iraq on this level. Nor are they tribal and dominated by a few families.
It is as Mattis said, an incredibly complex region.
Well that’s premature as I see it.
“Iran, unfortunately gained a strong foothold during the effort to oust ISIS in Iraq.”
That is one of Iran’s merely latest efforts. They - the Mullahs of Tehran - had been gaining ground among the Shia of Iraq, politically, from the time GHWBush decided to leave the Shia or Iraq “occupied” by Saddam Hussein when GHWBush had the chance to eliminate him, and didn’t. Iran then had another 12 years to build it underground organizations and support for special Iraqi Shia mullahs who would become the heads of militias once and whenever there was an opportunity to get rid of Saddam. The multi-pronged “civil war” that followed the U.S. invasion in 2003 was MOSTLY NOT the people of Iraq against the U.S. We were merely in the way of the Iran sponsored Shia militias against Saddam’s minions, Al Queda types, and Sunni militias supported by the Saudis and the Gulf States. They were all fighting against each other and we were fighting all of them in an attempt to end their fighting with none of them the winner. The thing that got me the most was that we KNEW Iran’s involvement and we did not so much about it. Then when Obama pulled out, it was one final gift to the Mullahs of Iran - the U.S. would not keep a presence to try to have some influence on the political class of Iraq.
All True. Thanks.
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