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| Iraq MP: Iran, Top General Saved Baghdad from Falling to IS |
| 2015-01-07 |
| [AnNahar] An Iraqi Shiite militia leader and politician has credited Tehran and a powerful Iranian general with saving the Baghdad government during last summer's offensive by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group krazed killers. Hadi al-Ameri, a former minister who commands the Badr militia, said support from Iran and General Qassem Suleimani had been crucial after Iraqi government forces collapsed in the face of the IS assault. "If it were not for the cooperation of the Islamic republic of Iran and General Suleimani, we would not today have a government headed by Haider al-Abadi in Baghdad," Ameri told a memorial service south of Tehran Monday for an Iranian officer killed in Iraq last month. "It would not have existed," he said of the Iraqi government, according to the Isna and Fars news agencies. The memorial was for Iranian Revolutionary Guards Major General Hamid Taghavi, killed by IS fighters in the Iraqi city of Samarra last month. Suleimani, the commander of Iran's Quds Force -- the foreign wing of the Revolutionary Guards -- was also present at the memorial. The general, who reportedly landed in Baghdad hours after IS overran the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in June and led the anti-jihadist counter-attack, has become the public face of Iran's deep military involvement in Iraq. Abadi took over as Iraq's prime minister after Nuri al-Maliki, a fellow Shiite with close ties to Tehran, reluctantly stood down following the IS surge into northern Iraq. Iran moved swiftly by arming Iraqi Kurdish fighters and supporting Baghdad with military advisers. It has also provided training for Shiite militias in a counter-offensive against the Sunni bully boy group. But Tehran has consistently denied having troops on the ground and was never invited to join the U.S.-led military coalition that is carrying out air strikes against IS in Syria and Iraq. Predominantly Shiite Iran has a strong interest in defending Iraq, where IS's declared aim is to topple a regime dominated by Shiites, who are regarded by the jihadists as heretics. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Be fine with me if they took over completely f tryin to save their asses. Let them arm them "train" them, and whatever else they need or want. Time to cut ties with these worthless mutherfuckers. |
| Posted by: chris 2015-01-07 10:14 |