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Monday, June 16, 2014

Iranian General Leads The Defence of Baghdad


Iranian soldiers start to move into Iraq.

Neighbors Helping Neighbors
  • BREAKING  -  Iran has sent 2,000 advance troops to Iraq in the past 48 hours to help tackle a jihadist insurgency.  1,500 basiji forces had crossed the border into the town of Khanaqin, in Diyala province, in central Iraq on Friday, while another 500 had entered the Badra Jassan area in Wasat province overnight.  (The Guardian)


(Editor  -  It is a burden to be right all the damn time, but it is a cross I must carry.  Ever since a clueless George Bush invaded Iraq I have been screaming that we were re-creating the Persian Empire.  Now as events unfold we see Iran slowly moving into Iraq, an area that was part of their country for thousands of years.)


(The Sunday Times of London)  -  Iran has taken command of Iraq’s crumbling armed forces to help organise the fightback against hardline militants who have seized large swathes of the country.

Major-General Qassem Suleimani, the leader of Iran’s elite Quds force, is now running operations, a top Iraqi official revealed yesterday.

Suleimani, who travelled to Baghdad last week with 67 of his top advisers, “is in charge of arming, deploying forces, weaponry and planning the battles”, the source said. “He also brought light and medium weapons, rockets, heavy machineguns and lots of ammunition.”

News of Iran’s role came as its president, Hassan Rouhani, held out the prospect of an alliance with America, Tehran’s old enemy, to fight Isis — the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham. Asked if Iran would co-operate with Washington over Iraq, Rouhani said: “Any time the Americans start to take action against terrorist groups, we can consider that.”

The Iranian leader vowed that he was ready to assist the Iraqi government of Nouri Al-Maliki, a fellow Shi’ite, in his battle against the Sunni insurgents. “We are ready to help within international law,” Rouhani said.





The Coming of Iran to Iraq
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has roughly 125,000 military personnel including ground, aerospace and naval forces. Its naval forces are now the primary forces tasked with operational control of the Persian Gulf. It also controls the paramilitary Basij militia which has about 90,000 active personnel.
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The Islamic Republic of Iran Army (IRIA) is estimated to have 350,000 personnel (220,000 conscripts and 130,000 professionals) plus around 350,000 reservists for a total of 700,000 soldiers.



"We want to visit our brothers in Iraq."

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