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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCool it, America. Iran has our back, they have TWO Battalions of elite troops on the ground now.....
Last edited Fri Jun 13, 2014, 02:20 PM - Edit history (2)
Ironic.
And I bet they will leave no man behind, because war is hell, and Sgt. Bergdahl's writings show you exactly why.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/iran-sends-troops-to-aid-iraqi-government-1.1830624
Iran has reportedly intervened in the Iraq conflict, deploying a branch of the Revolutionary Guards to bolster Iraqi government troops who have been routed by the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis).
(Isis was originally an offshoot of al-Qaeda, but its leader Abu-Bakr al-Bakri broke with Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Ladens successor)
Irans Quds Forces helped troops from Nouri al-Malikis beleaguered Shia-led Iraqi government to retake 85 per cent of Tikrit, Saddam Husseins birthplace, from Isis yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said the Islamic Republic will not tolerate this violence and terrorism . . . we will fight and battle violence and extremism and terrorism in the region and the world.
Members of the Revolutionary Guard Corps told the newspaper that two battalions were shifted from Iranian border provinces to protect the Shia holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala, and to tighten security around Baghdad.
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Edit: President Hassan Rouhani and every American President since Reagan and every European leader since Thatcher have uttered the exact same words Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said "the Islamic Republic will not tolerate this violence and terrorism . . . we will fight and battle violence and extremism and terrorism in the region and the world.", but who to believe?
A proposed map of the Middle East, Palestine to be written in later -
The Bernhard Lewis Plan for the Middle East
http://positivists.org/blog/archives/1208
Mapping The Religious Divide in the Middle East
http://www.floatingpath.com/2013/08/01/mapping-the-religious-divide-in-the-middle-east/
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)and put Hezbullah on Point.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)The Shiites are going in to slaughter the Sunnis.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)zonkers
(5,865 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Something like 1400 years. There was a comment yesterday reporting the battle has been going on since the day the Prophet Mohammed died, in 643 AD, if I remember correctly.
ieoeja
(9,748 posts)Ali was the 5th Caliph & Imam of a unified Muslim empire. After his death there arose two claimants. One killed the other in modern day Iraq, and the split became permanent.
I've always wondered if this was how then Cassius Clay chose his new name since Muhammad through Ali was the period of Muslim unity.
Keefer
(713 posts)I hope they leave and don't have OTHER ideas.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)the troublemakers who are causing this started with only 800 fighters. True or not, I'm not sure. The Iraqi army hasn't put up a fight yet, so two battalions could very well do it.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)are all Shias, so highly unlikely I think.
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