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Iran’s IRGC 'Massacring' Iraqi Sunnis It 'Saves' from ISIS
Arutz Sheva ^ | 12/21/2014, 6:50 PM | Mark Langfan

Posted on 12/22/2014 12:19:34 PM PST by Dave346

Iraq’s Grand Mufti accuses IRGC, Iraqi government, Shiite militias of genocide and rape of Sunnis they 'liberated' from ISIS

In an explosive TV interview aired last week, Iraq’s Grand Mufti Rafi Al-Rifa’i, the highest Sunni authority in the country, accused the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Iraqi government, and Iraqi Shiite militias of mass genocidal killings and rape of Sunni men and women from Iraqi towns and villages “liberated” from ISIS (Islamic State).

Mufti Al-Rifa’i posed the unanswerable question, “Why should we fight ISIS? So the Iranian IRGC can take over? The same Iranian IRGC that is running operations in Iraq?”

Mufti Al-Rifa’i is the religious leader of roughly eight million Sunni Muslims who live in the western parts of Iraq. Overall, about 22 million Sunni Muslims live in eastern Syria and Western Iraq. They are the current target of ISIS – and also, it turns out, of the Iranian IRGC.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is the key Iranian governmental army. Unlike the regular Iranian Army or “artesh,” which is tasked with the military duties of defending Iran's borders and maintaining internal order – according to the Iranian constitution, the Iran Revolutionary Guard or “pasdaran” is empowered to carry out special forces, military intelligence, and overseas military/intelligence operations.

The IRGC is officially recognized as a direct component of the Iranian military under Article 150 of the Iranian Constitution. Therefore, its actions and possible war-crimes are the direct actions and direct responsibility of the Iranian government itself.

In a tragic retelling, the Sunni Mufti Al-Rifa’i described that when the Iraqi Sunni town Jurf al-Sakhar was “liberated,” the men are immediately separated from the women and children after which “nobody knows what happened to the men,” intimating that they were immediately mass-murdered.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bombbombbombbombiran; china; india; iran; iraq; irgc; iri; isis; islam; kurdistan; lebanon; poorinnocentshiites; radical; russia; syria; turkey; unitedarabemirates; waronterror; yazidi

1 posted on 12/22/2014 12:19:34 PM PST by Dave346
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To: Dave346

Congrats, Barry, you’ve turned Iraq into the Wild West


2 posted on 12/22/2014 12:29:05 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Pointing out dereliction of duty is NOT fear mongering, especially in a panDEMic)
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To: sauropod

read


3 posted on 12/22/2014 12:31:20 PM PST by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
This is entirely the doing of Zero's, Lurch's, and Plugs' new ally, the Iranian mullahcracy. Thanks Dave346.

4 posted on 12/22/2014 12:32:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: SunkenCiv

You’re welcome. I remember for years during the Iraq war when it was the Shiite militias and Muqtada al-Sadr who was enemy #1 in the country.

The policies of aiding and abetting the Iranian takeover of Iraq is insane, but it’s what we’ve come to expect now after 6 years of this regime.


5 posted on 12/22/2014 12:42:47 PM PST by Dave346
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To: Dave346

Thanks, I guess it is on! God Protect Christians and other parties.

The ‘80s Iraq/Iran war killed a million I believe, Saddam in part, gassing Kurds took as many as 100,000 or more. So that area definitely had major problems.


6 posted on 12/22/2014 12:51:36 PM PST by BeadCounter
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To: Dave346

Sounds like the usual muslim on muslim cruelty. First one side does something, and then the other responds in kind, eye for eye and tooth for tooth and life for life.


7 posted on 12/22/2014 12:52:19 PM PST by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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To: Dave346

The problem was, troops should have been used to clear whatever necessary, find Saddam, set up a new gubmint, and after he was hanged, leave, or better yet, head west from Iraq and south from Afghanistan and obliterate the mullahs. Ah well.


8 posted on 12/22/2014 1:09:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: NonValueAdded

Obama to #2, NonValueAdded:

“YES I DID”. Thank you for voting for me. Just wait till you see what comes next.


9 posted on 12/22/2014 3:15:56 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: NonValueAdded

Obama to #2, NonValueAdded:

“YES I DID”. Thank you for voting for me. Just wait till you see what comes next.


10 posted on 12/22/2014 3:16:17 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Dave346

/bingo

The $700 million a month we’re sending to Iran for not agreeing to anything except to an extension to the period during which they’ll accept the $700 million a month, is the reason that Iran won’t be as harmed by the oil glut as, say, Russia. Iran’s biggest foreign market for its non-oil goods (and Iran makes stuff besides oil and sweat, unlike, say, Saudi Arabia) appears to be, surprise surprise, Iraq.


11 posted on 12/24/2014 6:13:44 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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