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2014-10-17 Iraq

Iran sends M-60 tanks into Iraq to help Kurds

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Posted by frozen al 2014-10-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 IMO read, IRAN = EAT MY DUST, TURKEY!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-10-17 00:56|| 2014-10-17 00:56|| Front Page Top

#2 IRAN PICKING UP THE ISIS/ISIL GAUNTLET???

As perhaps due to ... ...

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ISIS SEIZE THIRD LARGEST MILITARY BASE [Hit] IN WESTERN IRAQ + TAKE ITS TANKS, HEAVY WEAPONS, + SUPPLIES - IRAQI NEWS.

* SAME > VIDEO: ISIS: "THE ENTIRE WORLD WILL BE AN ISLAMIC STATE".

Move along, people, clearly there is no Global Jihad, Global Nuclear Jihad, Neo-Ottoman Nuclear Turkey + US Convert to Islam aka Islamic Mahdi/Hidden Imam 2030-2050 here!

YOOHOO, FBI-CIA, INTEL-PYWAR, I'M A'LOOKIN AT YOU!

* TOPIX > ISIS, SHIA MILITIAS CONTROL OPPOSITE SIDES OF EUPHRATES.

As I've said before, the ISIS/ISIL threat to Baghdad + Shia-led Iraqi Govt is also IMO a threat to IRAN.

Will the ISIS/ISIL "Cross the Rubicon" + attack both Baghdad proper + ultimately SHIA IRAN???

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* FYI DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRAN REPEATS IT MAY SEND MILITARY FORCES INTO PAKISTAN | PRESSTV - IRAN TO TAKE [unilateral = direct] ACTION IFF ISLAMABAD REFUSES TO SECURE BORDER - IRAN GENERAL.

IRGC Deputy Commander BGEN. Hossein Salami.

* TOPIX > [NewsKerala] AL-QAEDA, ISIS MAY JOIN INDIA MUJAHIDEEN, LeT [+ Other(s)] + ATTACK INDIA: NSG GENERAL.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-10-17 02:33|| 2014-10-17 02:33|| Front Page Top

#3 This war just gets stranger and stranger. Don't you people have sides?

Posted by SteveS 2014-10-17 03:55|| 2014-10-17 03:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Me thinks the Iranians, who have their own Kurdish population, have woken up to the strife the Kurds are capable of causing (as per Turkey and Syria). Their real enemy is The Iraqi Sunni's, and so angling to keep the Kurds on side with military support gestures. The Kurds, of course, have no real affiliation with anyone, since they've been clobbered historically from all angles, and been kept without a state. Now finally is the chance for the Kurds to form their own state with the break pending break-up of Iraq. This is exactly where the Iranians want the Kurdish State to be, as opposed to Iran.

Posted by Incredulous 2014-10-17 05:35|| 2014-10-17 05:35|| Front Page Top

#5 SteveS, if you're looking for sides there are two options. 1. think icosahedron, 20 sides; or 2. Moibus strip, 1 side, their own.

Posted by AlanC 2014-10-17 07:25|| 2014-10-17 07:25|| Front Page Top

#6 SteveS; Iran fears ISIS more than it fears Kurds' aspirations.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-10-17 07:29|| 2014-10-17 07:29|| Front Page Top

#7 You have to bear in mind that sunni-backed ISIS was created (formed, it's semantics at this point) as a counterweight to Hezbollah, which is an Iran-sponsored Shiite formation.
The problem here, as always, is collateral bystanders. (What we need here is a middle east cage match.)

Posted by ed in texas 2014-10-17 07:57|| 2014-10-17 07:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Not unexpected.

Bad news for Turkey. 95% of their borders will be with Shiia states and their allies, after western bombing etc knock out ISIS.

And we all know how Sunni and Shiia love to sing Kumbaya.

Posted by phil_b 2014-10-17 08:59|| 2014-10-17 08:59|| Front Page Top

#9 ISiS is selling enslaved Yazidi women for $10 each on ISIS slave markets.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-17 13:01|| 2014-10-17 13:01|| Front Page Top

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