Iranian General Qassem Soleimani
The Guardian: Iran tells Middle East militias: prepare for proxy war
Exclusive: Top military leader delivers message at Baghdad meeting as tensions rise.
Iran’s most prominent military leader has recently met Iraqi militias in Baghdad and told them to “prepare for proxy war”, the Guardian has learned.
Two senior intelligence sources said that Qassem Suleimani, leader of Iran’s powerful Quds force, summoned the militias under Tehran’s influence three weeks ago, amid a heightened state of tension in the region. The move to mobilise Iran’s regional allies is understood to have triggered fears in the US that Washington’s interests in the Middle East are facing a pressing threat. The UK raised its threat levels for British troops in Iraq on Thursday.
While Suleimani has met regularly with leaders of Iraq’s myriad Shia groups over the past five years, the nature and tone of this gathering was different. “It wasn’t quite a call to arms, but it wasn’t far off,” one source said.
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WNU Editor: Wherever Qassem Suleimani goes conflicts follow. But he is also a secretive man, who does not publicize where he goes and what he says. Someone fed the Guardian this scoop. Your guess on who leaked this is as good as mine.
4 comments:
Where is Curveball when you need him?
The leaker might be one or more of the ghosts, spirits, ???, whose child age human ran through Iraq's minefields on this guy's orders in order to clear those fields for the follow-up Iranian infantry cannon fodder.
You're in good hands with Allah.
“Prepare for proxy war.”
I would take this as a warning to buttress Synagogues and Churches in urban centers with large Muslim populations. Like Minneapolis, New York, Toronto, Seattle, Irvine, CA...
Does the week every pass when some loudmouth in Iran threatens this or that nation ?
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