Posted on 07/23/2015 4:57:04 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In stark contrast to the U.S. government's measured approach to countering ISIS in Iraq through the deployment of military advisors and stand-off airstrikes, Iran flatly offered Iraq an "open check" to battle the Islamic extremists, the Iraqi Ambassador to the U.S. said today.
"In relation to Iran, it also sees the threat of ISIS is a threat to its national security," Iraqi Ambassador Lukman Faily told the audience at the Aspen Security Forum today, noting that at one point ISIS forces were within 25 miles of the Iranian border to Iraq's east. "And their approach to it, more or less, was to have what I might call an open check with Iraq. 'What do you need?' And they offered us literally anything we wanted, troops and everything else, air force usage and everything else."
When New York Times correspondent Eric Schmitt, who was moderating the Aspen panel, pointed out that such an arrangement with Iran has given U.S. officials in Washington pause, Faily said, "That's a Washington problem, not an Iraqi problem."
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Iran doesn’t bother me nearly as much as ISIS, not even 30% as much. It’s a hard call, obviously, they, Iran, have supported Terrorists like Hamas and Hezbollah who in turn were against Israel.
Though they face discrimination, a decent sized Christian and Jewish community does exist in Iran. As recently as 79, Iran had many normal western oriented people.
No such thing can be said of ISIS and their Saudi sunni branch.
Yes, and the Zoroastrians started there I understand. They are probably peaceful. Too bad theirs’ wasn’t the religion that spread instead of Islam.
Indeed.
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