...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 the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi) were killed Saturday in a suspected Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) attack in Salahaddin province, a military source said, as Iraq seeks to expel a US-led anti-ISIS coalition from the country.
"A number of ISIS fighters today evening overran a Hashd position ... killing two Hashd fighters and injuring three others," Kawa Shekhani, military advisor to Salahaddin’s governor, told Rudaw’s Sirwan Abbas.
The ISIS forces of Evil fled and the injured PMF fighters were taken to Tikrit
...birthplace of Saddam Hussein...
hospital, Shekhani added.
Despite its territorial defeat, the group has continued to pose a serious security threat to the country through hit-and-run attacks, bombings, and abductions in several provinces, particularly in areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad which stretch across the provinces of Salahaddin, Diyala, Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
and Nineveh.
In the early hours of Sunday, Iraqi air force jets struck three suspected ISIS hideouts in Diyala province and "achieved direct hits on the defeated terrorist elements," the country’s Security Media Cell said.