Marines Line Up On IRANIAN Border!

UK Telegraph ^

[cynicom]

We need to drop Jimmy Carter into Iran before we invade.

[BlackVeil]

The threat from Iran, in the present war, is most serious and the commentators have not bothered to mention it.

The diversion of troops to the Iranian border will not help the advance towards Baghdad, however, they are needed there because Iran is poised to seize southern Iraq. The uprising in Basra might be good news of locals throwing off Sadaam. Or it might be Iran, activating its agents, having worked out that if we don't control strategic Basra, then they will.

[dighton]

Looks like maybe we will be adding a few stars to the ole flag :)

As these are Royal Marines, Iran would be a jewel in the Crown.

;-)

[First_Salute]

Standard op.

Protect against cross-border traffic.

[Beck_isright]

This is logical. We need our right flank protected from possible Iraqi "radical Islamicist" troops hiding in Iran. By sealing the border, the Iraqis become an Iranian problem. Not to mention they are next on the check list. Don't worry you liberal worry warts, North Korea is after we finish the Middle East. That ball is in China's court; do they really want to have a city the size of Shanghai full of fallout?

V

[First_Salute]

No, we won't, neither will the Brits.

This is a standard op to prevent cross-border traffic.

[First_Salute]

Actually, they're quite relaxed, having been informed some time ago, that the Brits would be protecting the border for a while.

[Conservateacher]

nah! Iran has witnessed what we've done the past week. They want no part of it. I wish they would try something because then we wouldn't need permission from the Frogs to invade. Ha!

[Darnright]

Aren't Royal Marines from Britain? Iran shouldn't be afraid of a few Europeans, now should they?

[First_Salute]

No, it is not "payback time."

There is no payback to be appreciated, and there is never going to be.

Self-discipline is required to make the peace work.

President Bush long ago determined that the Iranians had the fortitude on their own, to free themselves from the Soviet-sponsored totalitarian grip of the radical fascist Islamic clerics. There has not been a change of plans.

[First_Salute]

Thank you.

[ez]

Probably making sure that troops don't sneak in from Iran and backdoor us. They may know something about Iranian troop deployment that they are not releasing.

[First_Salute]

Yep; thank you.

[slimer]

Man he smoked her,... that little girl...peasnik...naive...idealist...BUT definitely NOT innocent.

[Grampa Dave]

Jimmy Carter as well as the Da$$hole will be very disappointed if this happens.

We have left a lot of UK and US Marines along that border. Only God and General Franks know what we have in Turkey to the North which can come into Iran from the North.

Then we have the battle proven men in Afghanistan.

A three way vise grips on their balls would smart!

Take out the first 50 murdering Mullahs and their war toys, and the good Iranians will have Mullah heads on pikes all over Iran.

[chance33_98]

Man he smoked her,...

Yes...And the sad thing is I don't think even now she understands. As I have said many times, the peaceniks had 12 years to try to effect a regime change peacefully, and they did nothing. No protests against saddam, no human shields for his torture victims, nothing.

[chance33_98]

My favorite part was when he called it 'Nickeloden diplomacy'

[blam]

Marines line up on Iranian border

By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor
(Filed: 26/03/2003)

Royal Marines were deployed to Iraq's border with Iran yesterday in a move that will unnerve Teheran's regime, which fears encirclement by American-led forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Ministry of Defence said the Royal Marines were merely "securing their area of operations" after seizing at the Faw peninsula.

But with Iranian troops manning positions on the other side of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, British forces face a highly sensitive task.

Tensions were illustrated by a succession of border incidents. A rocket struck an Iranian oil refinery depot in Abadan, just across from Basra, on Friday injuring two people while there were reports on Monday that Iranian forces had fired on British troops on the Faw peninsula.

Iran, part of America's "axis of evil", is formally neutral but fears it could be the next target for attack.

It is torn between publicly denouncing the "imperialist" war on a fellow Muslim country and co-operating tacitly with America and Britain in removing the old enemy, Saddam Hussein.

America has waged war against two of Iran's most hated foes, the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the Ba'athists in Baghdad. But the "Great Satan", as America is known, now has forces on two of Iran's borders.

Neighbouring Arab countries have long feared a war in Iraq could suck in forces from Turkey and Iran.

Western diplomats said Turkish intervention to forestall any Kurdish attempt to seize greater autonomy could encourage Iran to cross the border to support fellow Shi'ites and clear out bases of the main Iranian opposition group, the Mujahideen-e-Khalq.

The leading Iraqi Shi'ite opposition group, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution, has thousands of fighters in Iran. Some have slipped into Iraqi Kurdistan and many more may cross the border to claim a stake in the future Iraqi government.

[Porterville]

They are there to keep the Iranians from affecting the Shiite uprising. That said, this could be the holly war we've knew would eventually come. One billion Muslims, that's a lot of war, no more than one billion Chinese, I guess.

[RobRoy]

Got me actually laughing on that one. Good job...