Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces General Hassan Firouzabadi
Top Commander: No Chance For Tehran-Washington Cooperation -- FARS News Agency
TEHRAN (FNA)- Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces General Hassan Firouzabadi rejected western media speculations about Tehran's likely cooperation with the US over Iraq, and also stressed that Iran has not deployed troops in Iraq.
"There is no need to the presence of Iranian forces in Iraq," General Firouzabadi told reporters on Wednesday, and added, "Cooperation between Iran and the US will never take place and is meaningless."
He pointed to the capture of Iraq's Nineveh province by the ISIL as the result of a premeditated and coordinated plan, and said, "Such works do not mean brave military operations."
General Firouzabadi further blamed former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for having prepared the grounds for the presence of ISIL in the region by collecting cash from the regional countries, and said, "They prepared the grounds for Takfiris to gather naive Muslim youth with Jihadi motivations under the command of Baathists who had defected Iraq's army."
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My Comment: No one should be surprised by this Iranian announcement. US Secretary of State John Kerry started this speculation , and the western media has been carrying this speculation .... The U.S. and Iran: From sworn enemies to partners on Iraq? -- Tom Cohen and Holly Yan, CNN
Update: Iran Warns U.S. Against Intervention in Iraq -- Washington Free Beacon
The Kurds would put up a fight. Your probably right about Iran at least contemplating land grabbing.
ReplyDeleteI used to think the peshmerga
ReplyDeletewere pretty hardened, but
this BBC video shows that -
at least in one skirmish -
they're scared crapless
of ISIS/ISIL too:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27897696
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You are right oldfatslow. I will be posting a story in the next 2-3 hours on why the Kurds are afraid.
ReplyDeleteSure are a lot of fat guys in media pictures the last week or so.
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