Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

"Iran cuts support for Iraq groups"

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • "Iran cuts support for Iraq groups"

    An article from the BBC:
    Iran cuts support for Iraq groups

    There are signs that Iran has reduced its support for militant Shia groups in Iraq, say US and Iraqi officials.

    The US says there has been a big drop in the number of Iranian-made bombs in recent months, suggesting Iran has decided to rein in militants.

    An Iraqi official said Iran had restrained its activities because it believed that the US-Iraqi security pact posed no threat to Tehran.

    Iran government has consistently denied arming or funding Iraqi militants.

    Lt Gen Thomas Metz said the numbers of Iranian-made Explosively Formed Penetrators (EFPs) in Iraq decreased in recent months.

    These are a type of shaped charge that is particularly effective at penetrating armour.

    "They have represented over time probably 5% of improvised Explosive Devices, and would represent as much as 35% of the casualties," Gen Metz said.

    "We must assume that someone has made a decision on the Shia side connected to Iran to bring them down," he added.

    Iraqi government spokesman Ali Dabagh, speaking in Washington, said that there had been an apparent change in Tehran's posture toward the insurgency.

    "The assurances that were being given by [Iraqi PM Nouri] Maliki that the Status of Forces Agreement is not going to be against them… helped reducing the temperature with Iran," he added.

    On 27 November the Iraqi parliament voted to accept a deal on the future presence of US troops in the country. The decision means US troops will leave Iraqi streets by mid-2009 and will quit Iraq entirely by the end of 2011.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7779333.stm
    "Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes."

  • #2
    Iran will never give away the edge gained in post saddam Iraq.

    Comment


    • #3
      May be they want the US out before starting the supply chain back again? Is Iran trying to play safe? A'jad has brains? Whoa!
      A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam !!

      Comment


      • #4
        Iran benefitted from Iraq war sameway as the China and Russia did in Vietnam war.

        Comment


        • #5
          Perhaps they're trying to make nice before Obama comes into office?
          “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

          Comment


          • #6
            Originally posted by TopHatter View Post
            Perhaps they're trying to make nice before Obama comes into office?
            It would be a brilliant play on their behalf if they did. Obama gives them a way to opt out with whilst saving face. War with the US is the last thing Iran wants.

            It will cut the attacks, paving the way with direct negotiations with Obama. Obama would accept because the Iranians have 'shown a sign of goodwill' and they will negotiate an agreement wich gives the US a chance to pull out whilst still achieving most strategic goals whilst leaving Iran in a position of strenght.

            Do not be suprised if there is a major breakthrough in the Iranian nuclear program over the time that Obama gets into power. Maybe not a halt of the program but definatelly some instpections allowed and the like. Making it seem that the only reason A'jad behaved the way he has is because the previous administration has been pushing him to behave that way. May or may not be the truth but the MSM wont argue otherwise, Obama will look like the messiah and even A'jad would come out smelling like roses for domestic consumption because he would be the man that faced down the US and came out with a beneficial agreement. A modern day Sadat of sorts.
            The best part of repentance is the sin

            Comment


            • #7
              "We must assume that someone has made a decision on the Shia side connected to Iran to bring them down," he added.
              Well as stated above may be the people of Iraq want to live and stop the violence, no point supplying all the bombs if no ones wants them.

              I hope thats true.

              Comment


              • #8
                I am currently a bit out of touch regarding this, but what noises has Obama made about Iran so far?
                Everyone has opinions, only some count.

                Comment


                • #9
                  Originally posted by haroon View Post
                  Iran benefitted from Iraq war sameway as the China and Russia did in Vietnam war.
                  Same way we did in Afghanistan in the 80's.:));)
                  Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

                  Comment


                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Kommunist View Post
                    I am currently a bit out of touch regarding this, but what noises has Obama made about Iran so far?
                    None that I have heard but that is not to say that he hasn't.
                    Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

                    Comment


                    • #11
                      Originally posted by haroon View Post
                      Iran benefitted from Iraq war sameway as the China and Russia did in Vietnam war.
                      How did China benefitted from the outcome of the Vietnam war?

                      The war made Vietnam (their former vassal) a much stronger nation, it expanded soviet influence in South east Asia (nominally anyways), the war indirectly led to the demise of the pro-Chinese regime in Cambodia. ... and to top all this, Vietnam gave the uppercut in '79.

                      All in all good losses to the Chinese,

                      Comment

                      Working...
                      X