Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Force, poses with Kurdish fighters in Iraq in this undated photo. (photo by Twitter/@Mojtaba_Fathi)
Rudaw: Kurdish MP: 30,000 Iranian soldiers, military experts fighting in Iraq
ERBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan- At least 30,000 Iranian soldiers and military experts are in Iraq and involved in the fight against ISIS, a Kurdish lawmaker in the Iraqi parliament said Sunday, calling it a “threat to Iraq’s sovereignty.”
“At least 30,000 soldiers and military experts from the Islamic Republic of Iran are fighting ISIS militants in Iraq,” Shakhawan Abdullah, head of the parliamentary security and defense committee, told Rudaw.
Shiite Iran has been actively involved in neighbor Iraq’s security issues, since ISIS overran large parts of the country with the aim of establishing a Sunni-Islamic caliphate.
Update #1: Iran accused of sending 30,000 troops to fight in Iraq -- Al Jazeera
WNU Editor: Iran is denying these reports .... but Qasem Soleimani (head of the elite Iranian Quds force) is there, and if he is there one would have to conclude that there are also a large number of Iranian "military volunteers and supporters".
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