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Iraq
Iran vows to attack militants in Iraq if they near border
2014-09-28
Iran will attack ISIS group militants inside Iraq if they advance near the border, ground forces commander General Ahmad Reza Pourdestana said in comments published on Saturday.
If it wasn't for the fact that innocent Iraqis would suffer I'd let the ISIS and the Iranian bully boyz go at it. One could cull two herds at once...
“If the terrorist group (ISIS) come near our borders, we will attack deep into Iraqi territory and we will not allow it to approach our border,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Pourdestana as saying.

The extremists of ISIS control a swathe of territory north of Baghdad, including in Diyala province, which borders Iran.

Iran is a close ally of the Shia-led government in Iraq and has been unusually accepting of US military action in Iraq against the militants. It has provided support to both the Iraqi government and Iraqi Kurdish forces fighting the militants and has dispatched weapons and military advisers.

But Tehran, a close ally of the Damascus government, has criticised air strikes on Syria, saying they would not help restore stability in the region.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said he rejected a US offer to join the international coalition it has been building against the militants.
Can't ally with the Great Satan after all...
Posted by:Steve White

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