"All media reports about the arrival of a new batch of U.S. troops at the Ein al-Assad base are baseless and lack credibility," the Arabic-language Baghdad Today website quoted Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, front man for the Joint Operations Command, as saying.
Rasool further called on media outlets to take information only from reliable sources and not to depend on social networking websites.
Tensions have risen recently between Washington and 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 spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan,the abbreviation
IRGCis a cognate form of
Stürmabteilung (or SA),the term
Supreme Guideis a cognate form of either
Shahor
Führeror maybe both, and they hate
as the U.S. administration sent bombers and aircraft carriers to the Middle East to counter what it described as potential threats against U.S interests from Iran.
Tehran responded with warnings that it was ready to counter American threats.
The uneasy atmosphere prompted a number of Western countries to announce withdrawal of some of their military or civilian workers in Iraq.
Estimates put the number of U.S. troops at Ain al-Assad at 5000.