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Fred Sanders

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Fri Jun 13, 2014, 11:09 AM Jun 2014

Cool it, America. Iran has our back, they have TWO Battalions of elite troops on the ground now..... [View all]

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 Laden’s successor)

Iran’s Quds Forces helped troops from Nouri al-Maliki’s beleaguered Shia-led Iraqi government to retake 85 per cent of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s 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/

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