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2019-12-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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US deployed 14,000 troops to Middle East to address Iranian threats: Esper
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[Rudaw] US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday that his country has deployed about 14,000 troops to the Middle East to confront Iran’s growing influence in the region.
"Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
continue its malign influence and widespread destabilizing activities across the Middle East," Esper said during an onstage discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, citing Iranian support to its proxies in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, Leb and Iraq, and shutting down of dronezap s on shipments in the Strait of Hormuz.
"To address these threats, since May this year, nearly 14,000 US military personnel have been deployed to the region to further enhance deterrence and demonstrate our commitment to our allies and partners," he added.
Believing that Iran could be behind a series of attacks on its military bases in Iraq, several US officials told CNN last week that the US is increasingly concerned about new provocations against their troops in the region.
A number of defense sources told the news agency that may deploy 4,000-7,000 additional troops to the area.
Esper’s comments follow rocket attacks on a military base near Baghdad airport, which houses US troops, on Wednesday. The tenth of its kind since late October, the attack was blamed on the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), known as Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic.
Two days earlier, several members of the Iraqi counter-terrorism units, trained by the US, were maimed near the same airport in an overnight attack.
"We strongly condemn the Iranian proxy attack that maimed five Iraqi soldiers near the Baghdad Airport this week. To Iran’s leaders - the U.S. will respond decisively if Iran or its proxies harm U.S. personnel or our Iraqi partners," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on Friday.
Kataib Hezbollah, which is part of Hashd al-Shaabi and is blacklisted by the US, was blamed by security sources for the attacks.
Iran provides military, financial and political support to a number of hard boy groups overseas including Hashd al-Shaabi in Iraq, Hezbollah in Leb, Iran's Houthi sock puppets
 ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s in Yemen, and various Paleostinian groups.
It's wide involvement in regional affairs is deemed to be a core component of Iranian defense strategy.
A report published by the US Defense Intelligence Agency last month described Tehran as leading an "Axis of Resistance®" against the West, made up of state and non-state Shiite and Alawite actors, and labelled Iran as "implacably opposed" to the US presence in the Middle East.
Aramco oil facilities in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
were repeatedly attacked in September, with Iranian-linked Houthi rebels claiming responsibility for the offensive. Despite popular speculation, the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
said Tuesday that they were unable to verify that Iran was behind the attack.
Following the US withdrawal from northern Syria in early October, which attracted widespread condemnation, 3,000 troops were sent to Saudi Arabia as a "defense tactic" against Iran.
The US announced fresh sanctions on Iran on Wednesday, targeting an Iranian shipping network and three agents of an Iranian airline company.
"The Iranian regime uses its aviation and shipping industries to supply its regional terrorist and hard boy groups with weapons, directly contributing to the devastating humanitarian crises in Syria and Yemen," Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said in a statement. 
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