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2014-06-27 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

ISIS: Iran's Instrument for Regional Hegemony?

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Posted by Hupiper Slesing1993 2014-06-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State of Iraq

#1 I seriously doubt it.

I suspect ISIS is running strong with Saudi money. Saudi's have now mobilized, probably to militarize their own Shia population (inconveniently on the Saudi oil fields) as ISIS tries to grab the parts of Shia Iraq with the oil and while Iran moves in to stop such a move.

I suspect the end result is not to far off from the Iran/Iraq war of the 80s with trench lines and chemical weapons.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-06-27 01:25|| 2014-06-27 01:25|| Front Page Top

#2 (inconveniently on the Saudi oil fields)

:)

There's this narrow strip of land.........

0/Paco, all peace and chicks be upon him

Posted by Shipman 2014-06-27 08:03|| 2014-06-27 08:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Saddam's judge was alleged to have been killed by ISIS fighters but led by Al-Duri:
Another Facebook post confirming the judge's execution by militants is that of Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri, who was Saddam's former deputy and later emerged as a key figure among the militants. Al-Douri is reportedly one of the masterminds behind the latest ISIS offensive in Iraq. Remember the King of Clubs in the deck of most wanted terrorists? Let God sort it out but they all need to go.

Posted by Flaiger Uneamp8181 2014-06-27 12:00|| 2014-06-27 12:00|| Front Page Top

#4 ISIS will take anyone's money but then they do what they want to do. I think they're perfectly capable of taking Saudi or American or Turkish money and turning around and doing what Syria or Iran needs them to do in order to justify what Syria or Iran wants to do.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-06-27 16:46|| 2014-06-27 16:46|| Front Page Top

#5 isis has been massacring shiites in town after town

Iran may have provided some funding in the early days of isis when they were called al q of iraq in order to persuade them to concentrate on killing americans but this aid has surely ended by now

Posted by lord garth 2014-06-27 17:13|| 2014-06-27 17:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Yuuup, but also beacuse ISIS was anti-Zawahiri as is Iran.

However, new ISIS BFF + fellow Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra was suppos pro-Zawahiri, so now Iran is caught all by itself in a complex deelemma.

Saddam's daughter Raghdad was repor as being extremely happy that the ISIS insurgency was occurring - many of Daddy-O Saddam's ex-solders have joined up wid same.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-06-27 23:02|| 2014-06-27 23:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Iran's ace right now as per achieveing regional hegemony is ultimately Globalist Obama + his mighty "red lines".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-06-27 23:03|| 2014-06-27 23:03|| Front Page Top

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