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| Iran says US has plan to divide Iraq |
| 2015-11-25 |
| Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday accused the US of trying to divide Iraq along sectarian and ethnic lines and urged Iraqis to withstand any such plans. It was not clear if Khamenei was referring to a specific incident, but Iran has protested about US policy in Iraq several times this year. “The Americans must not be allowed to consider Iraq as their personal property ... and dare to openly talk about disintegration of Iraq,” Khamenei said according to his website. “The Iraqi people, Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds and Arabs have been living together peacefully but some regional countries and some foreigners are trying to amplify differences among them,” he added. In August, outgoing US Army chief of staff General Ray Odierno drew condemnation from Baghdad and Tehran when he said reconciliation between Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq was becoming harder and that partitioning the country “might be the only solution.” In the instability resulting from the rise of Daesh , Iraq’s Kurds have expanded the reach of their autonomous regional government to include Kirkuk, which sits on substantial oil deposits. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #11 “The Iraqi people, Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds and Arabs have been living together peacefully... “The Iraqi people, Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds and Arabs have been living together chopping each other to pieces fully. there, fixed it |
| Posted by: bbrewer126 2015-11-25 20:03 |
| #10 It's his fault - he told me the tarpon were running and I spent three days by the Gulf Stream waiting to hand out bottled water. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-11-25 14:59 |
| #9 Tour boats sail the trinitite surface: "Folks, all this was glazed with a purpose -- Oh, look, there's a camel Performing a Hamill! -- This place is where Allah met Curtis." |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2015-11-25 14:58 |
| #8 Good lord -- the two of you have a future as a vaudeville comedy team. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-11-25 12:11 |
| #7 You can't graze on the glaze and these r be allmads, so no Teach 'em beasties to 'ice skate.' 'Ice' Capades in Araby - think of the entertainment potential. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-11-25 12:08 |
| #6 You can't graze on the glaze and these r be allmads, so no. Shift the lot to the mt.25 and be done with them. Then nuke with mace. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-11-25 11:39 |
| #5 Ooops, Pappy, so I did. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-11-25 10:30 |
| #4 You spelled "glaze" wrong. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-11-25 08:51 |
| #3 Too bad we can't go back to the post WWI era and redivide the whole damn place. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-11-25 08:07 |
| #2 Divide Iraq? Half the Iraqis already hate the other half and that half hates the previous half plus some other people besides. Which is pretty much the Middle East in nutshell. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-11-25 01:01 |
| #1 Better late than never. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-11-25 00:53 |