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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran Says Ready to Help Iraq Battle al-Qaida
2014-01-06
[An Nahar] Iran's deputy chief of staff General Mohammad Hejazi said Sunday the Islamic republic was prepared to provide military equipment and advice to Iraq to help it battle al-Qaeda.

"If the Iraqis ask, we will supply them with equipment and advice, but they have no need of manpower," Hejazi was cited by the official IRNA news agency as saying.

Hejazi said there had not been any request from Iraq to "carry out joint operations against the 'takfir
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
i' terrorists," a term used to describe al-Qaeda.

Iraqi forces are preparing a major attack to retake the city of Fallujah,
... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids...
which has been taken over by fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which is also a major force in the rebellion against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
in neighboring Syria.

Both Iran and Iraq are predominantly Shiite Mohammedan nations, and their governments have strengthened political and economic ties in recent years.

Iran is also a key ally of the Assad regime and acknowledges having sent what it calls "military advisers" to Syria, although there are claims it also has combatants there.

Al-Qaeda is an hard boy Sunni Mohammedan organization that views Shiites as apostates.
Posted by:Fred

#5  See also TOPIX > [Bloomberg] IRAN NEEDS TO PROVE [itself] HELPFUL ON SYRIA, US OFFICIALS SAY.

IMO "Syria" also read "IRAQ, ETAL" wherever in me the Qaeda Boyz + aligned go.

IMO again Artic sub-read, "... OR ELSE"!

AS OWG CO-SUPERPOWER RISING IRAN DOES IN SYRIA SO ALSO IT DOES, OR M-U-S-T DO, AS PER IRAQ.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-01-06 20:15  

#4  A shame that they both can't lose.

Sure they can. It ain't football.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-01-06 11:37  

#3  A shame that they both can't lose.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-01-06 11:31  

#2  Phil,

Who is the lesser of two evils Iran or Saudi?
Posted by: Voldemort Thranter2866   2014-01-06 05:42  

#1  A proxy war between Iran and Saudi.

I wonder at what point SA becomes overtly involved. It can't allow Shiia states from Iran to the Med.
Posted by: phil_b   2014-01-06 00:08  

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