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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS: Iran's Instrument for Regional Hegemony?
2014-06-27
[JerusalemCenterForPublicAffairs] o Immediately after ISIS emerged in Syria, sources in the Syrian opposition said, "We are familiar with the commanders of ISIS. Once they belonged to Assad's intelligence, and now they are operating on his behalf under the name of ISIS."

o Why would Shiite Iran support a Sunni jihadist organization like ISIS? Iran wants to be certain that a strong Iraqi state does not emerge again along its western border.

o The notion that Shiite Iran would help Sunni jihadists was not farfetched, even if it seemed to defy the conventional wisdom in Western capitals.
Posted by:Hupiper Slesing1993

#7  Iran's ace right now as per achieveing regional hegemony is ultimately Globalist Obama + his mighty "red lines".
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-06-27 23:03  

#6  Yuuup, but also beacuse ISIS was anti-Zawahiri as is Iran.

However, new ISIS BFF + fellow Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra was suppos pro-Zawahiri, so now Iran is caught all by itself in a complex deelemma.

Saddam's daughter Raghdad was repor as being extremely happy that the ISIS insurgency was occurring - many of Daddy-O Saddam's ex-solders have joined up wid same.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-06-27 23:02  

#5  isis has been massacring shiites in town after town

Iran may have provided some funding in the early days of isis when they were called al q of iraq in order to persuade them to concentrate on killing americans but this aid has surely ended by now
Posted by: lord garth   2014-06-27 17:13  

#4  ISIS will take anyone's money but then they do what they want to do. I think they're perfectly capable of taking Saudi or American or Turkish money and turning around and doing what Syria or Iran needs them to do in order to justify what Syria or Iran wants to do.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2014-06-27 16:46  

#3  Saddam's judge was alleged to have been killed by ISIS fighters but led by Al-Duri:
Another Facebook post confirming the judge's execution by militants is that of Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri, who was Saddam's former deputy and later emerged as a key figure among the militants. Al-Douri is reportedly one of the masterminds behind the latest ISIS offensive in Iraq. Remember the King of Clubs in the deck of most wanted terrorists? Let God sort it out but they all need to go.
Posted by: Flaiger Uneamp8181   2014-06-27 12:00  

#2  (inconveniently on the Saudi oil fields)

:)

There's this narrow strip of land.........

0/Paco, all peace and chicks be upon him
Posted by: Shipman   2014-06-27 08:03  

#1  I seriously doubt it.

I suspect ISIS is running strong with Saudi money. Saudi's have now mobilized, probably to militarize their own Shia population (inconveniently on the Saudi oil fields) as ISIS tries to grab the parts of Shia Iraq with the oil and while Iran moves in to stop such a move.

I suspect the end result is not to far off from the Iran/Iraq war of the 80s with trench lines and chemical weapons.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2014-06-27 01:25  

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