Iran Muscles in on Iraq
BY Herschel Smith
18 years, 3 months ago
Iran has been involved militarily in the region, and is now turning up the political heat to influence future events. The U.S. State Department is woefully inept to counter Iranian influence.
I have been watching Iran for some time now. Even with the most clinical of assessments, one can only conclude that the hard line extremists in Iran are pathological liars. Iran denied that they had supplied Hezbollah with equipment, while almost simultaneously Iranian-made equipment was captured in Lebanon by the IDF. While denying that they were in any way assisting Hezbollah, Iranian soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon. Contrary to repeated denials of Iranian involvement in Iraq, the more complicated IED technology has an unmistakable Iranian signature. While denying that Iran has meddled in the affairs of Iraq, even prior to the war, huge sums of money and Iranian intelligence assets poured across the border in an attempt to effect a post-war outcome favorable to Iran. Again while denying that Iranians have done any harm to people or infrastructure in Iraq, Iranians involved in sabotage of oil pipelines have been arrested by Iraqi security forces. U.S. border forts have not been able to supress the Iranian influence in Iraq or close the porous border.
In stepped up political maneuvering (by Iran), Iraqi Prime Minister Malaki visited Iran yesterday, attempting to tell him that the Iranian meddling must stop. First, it is troublesome that he would visit Iran, since Iraq should see Iran as its most entrenched enemy — the one who would work towards a one-world Caliphate that would mean the diminution of trivial things like Iraq-Iran borders and state sovereignty. But it is more troublesome that Iran seems to be playing the political game with Iraq. The Ayatollah Khamenei weighs in on his position regarding the U.S. presence in Iraq:
Khamenei told al-Maliki that Iran “considers it an obligation to support the Iraqi government in practical ways,
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