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| Iran in New Deal to Boost Iraq Army |
| 2015-01-01 |
| [AnNahar] Iran is to help Iraq rebuild its army under an agreement that could formalize Tehran's military support for its neighbor, which remains under assault by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group. No details of the pact were released but state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? said the two sides had "agreed to continue cooperation in the defense arena with the creation of a national army to protect the territorial integrity and security of Iraq." The memorandum of understanding was signed late Tuesday in Tehran where Iraqi Defence Minister Khaled al-Obaidi is holding talks with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Dahqan. "The two sides stressed the need for consultations to ensure security, because terrorism affects not only security in Iraq but security throughout the region," the statement added. The Iraqi military melted in the face of the jihadist surge in June, with many soldiers simply abandoning their weapons and uniforms, allowing IS to seize large areas of the country. Within days, Shiite Iran sent military advisers to Iraq, which is also predominantly Shiite, to help train and equip troops and allied militias for a counteroffensive against IS. Iran has also armed Kurdish forces in northern Iraq and several Iranian military personnel have been killed in Iraq and Syria, whose government Tehran also supports. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... IS remains in control of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Iraq's second largest city, and much of the Sunni Arab heartland north and west of Baghdad. Iran has consistently denied having combat troops on the ground in Iraq and was never invited to join the U.S.-led military coalition assembled against IS, dismissing allied air strikes in Iraq and Syria as ineffective. But earlier this month the Pentagon said Iranian F-4 Phantom jets -- acquired from the United States before the 1979 Islamic revolution -- had started attacking IS fighters in eastern Iraq's Diyala province. Tehran refused to confirm or deny the U.S. military's report. Diyala lies on Iran's border and Iranian officials have underlined the threat they believe that the IS advance into the province poses for its own security. They have also said repeatedly that they will not allow any move by IS against the Shiite holy places in Iraq, including the city of Samarra, north of Baghdad, where an Iranian military adviser was killed last week. Speaking at the funeral Monday of Revolutionary Guards Major General Hamid Taghavi, a top security official said that if IS was not tackled in Iraq, Iran itself would be targeted. "If people like Taghavi don't give their blood in Samarra, we must shed our blood... in Shiraz, Isfahan," Supreme National Security Council secretary Ali Shamkhani said, naming two Iranian cities. "The enemy will certainly seek to create insecurity in our country," he added. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 OWG Globalist-desired, future "US-style", Nukulaar "Co-Superpower" RISING IRAN + its National Military-Industrial Complex + Econ, etc. need the work. And the Modernization. But I digress ... ... * FYI GROONG > [Sputnik News = Pepe Escobar] 2015 WILL BE ALL ABOUT IRAN, RUSSIA, AND CHINA. Yeeeuuup. Or in altern how the Bammer did more golfing while busting the Debt-n-Deficit + intentionally deliberately PCorrectly-Deniably losing the World. * TOPIX > [NewsBlaze] MORE THAN 7000 IRANIAN TERRORIST QUDS FORCE REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS IN IRAQ. D *** NG IT, IS THERE NO LOVE FOR IRAN'S INFANTRY, TANK DIVISIONS HELPING THE KURDS - SPECOPS GETS ALL THE 72 GRAPES, GIFTS + THE BABES??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-01-01 22:37 |
| #2 the more the Mullahs send troops to Iraq, Syria, etc., the fewer are left to protect the most important Mullah assets also, this costs Iran money - lots of money |
| Posted by: lord garth 2015-01-01 14:13 |
| #1 Why is NATO defending Iranian province of Mesopotamia? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-01-01 08:02 |