Mehdi Army fighters loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stand during a military-style training in Baghdad June 19, 2014. Credit: REUTERS/Ahmed Saad
What Happens If US Troops Run Into the Iranian Military In Iraq? -- ABC News
On the heels of President Obama’s announcement that up to 300 U.S. military advisers will be sent to Iraq to help combat the threat from a Sunni terror group, an awkward question was raised: What happens if the U.S. troops, many of them Special Forces, run into Iranian soldiers who are reportedly already in Iraq in numbers?
The question was first posed to ABC News Thursday, shortly after President Obama’s announcement, by a former member of U.S. special operations who knows some of the men on their way to Iraq. The former soldier said he was concerned the U.S. troops at the ground level may not have been given guidance from higher up for that specific possibility. White House National Security Council representatives and a Defense Department official did little to ease that concern in conversations with ABC News Thursday evening.
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My Comment: I suspect that these soldiers have already been told on what will be their rules of engagement in the event that they come face to face with Iranian forces.
3 comments:
The Quds are smart enough not to muzzle the wrong persons....especially since the nuclear talks are going so well.
I think Phill is right.
So long as the talks are going well and tghe Iranians need the americans to fight ISISI nothign will happen.
6 months from now if a an Americans finds himself "lost" or away from other Americans, it might be another deal.
If no one knows what happened and there is plausible deniablility that a militia could have kidnapped them, the Iranians might not be able to help themselves.
And the "get go", the Iranians will be on the up and up for a while.
I think Phill is right.
So long as the talks are going well and tghe Iranians need the americans to fight ISISI nothign will happen.
6 months from now if a an Americans finds himself "lost" or away from other Americans, it might be another deal.
If no one knows what happened and there is plausible deniablility that a militia could have kidnapped them, the Iranians might not be able to help themselves.
And the "get go", the Iranians will be on the up and up for a while.
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