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The Disruptive Regional Role of Iran’s Ideology
Asharq al Awsat ^ | Feb. 12, 20018

Posted on 02/12/2018 2:06:35 PM PST by nuconvert

On December 8, 2017, the leader of Iraq’s Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq Qais al-Khazali paid a visit to the Lebanese-Israeli border to inspect Lebanese “Hezbollah” resistance positions and to issue a threat to the southern neighbor.

In a leaked video, he was shown as saying: “We are here with ‘Hezbollah’ and we announce our complete readiness to stand side by side with the Lebanese people and Palestinian cause against the Israeli occupation.”

Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, or Khazali Network, is affiliated with Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).

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His statement however demonstrated the common interests of pro-Iran regional militias to allow Tehran to establish a security belt that extends from Iran to Lebanon and which passes through Iraq and Syria.

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This ideology has its roots in global Iranian Islamic ideology, which is committed to exporting the Islamic Revolution.

This goal is stipulated in the Iranian constitution and it ultimately seeks to create a “united and global society of believers.” This commitment has so far been successfully implemented in Iraq and Lebanon.

Has Iran successfully built a cross-border semi-military and ideologically cohesive belt that extends from Iraq to Lebanon and which passes through Syria? Ahmed said that the Lebanese “Hezbollah” is not alone, but it has Syrian and Iraqi versions.

“These are not literal versions, but they are organized entities that share the same ideology and regional goals,” he stated.

“All of these factions in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon will fight side by side with each other in the next war,” he declared.


TOPICS: Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; egypt; erdogan; exportingislam; gaza; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; india; iran; iranianexpansionism; iraq; isis; islam; israel; kurdistan; lebanon; pakistan; receptayyiperdogan; shia; sinai; syria; turkey

1 posted on 02/12/2018 2:06:36 PM PST by nuconvert
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To: Valin; TigerLikesRooster

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2 posted on 02/12/2018 2:15:34 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: AdmSmith

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3 posted on 02/12/2018 3:25:53 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS)

Column One: Portents of quagmires in Syria

4 posted on 02/12/2018 3:34:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks nuconvert.

5 posted on 02/12/2018 3:34:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: nuconvert

Sounds great Ashqwah, as soon as they destroy every Sunni bug on the planet we might care. Until then, your kind will pay for ISIS.


6 posted on 02/12/2018 3:43:08 PM PST by The Toll
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To: The Toll

“Sounds great Ashqwah, as soon as they destroy every Sunni bug on the planet we might care”

Iran is doing this in the region to attack Israel. Should we just sit back & watch?


7 posted on 02/12/2018 3:51:52 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert

Absolutely. We are sitting in FOB’s with these guys every single day right now cleaning out ISIS bugs.

They couldn’t scratch Israel in a million years. I’m tired of the Saudi’s blowing up our cities and then getting us to do their bidding for the good of Israel who they hate anyway.


8 posted on 02/12/2018 3:57:20 PM PST by The Toll
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To: SunkenCiv

wow - nice catch


9 posted on 02/12/2018 4:11:16 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: The Toll

“They couldn’t scratch Israel in a million years”

Wow. How come the Israelis aren’t as confident as you are?


10 posted on 02/12/2018 4:16:01 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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Disruptive. Iran is fighting a war. Against the US, Israel and infidels in general.

11 posted on 02/12/2018 4:47:39 PM PST by SJackson (The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement)
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To: nuconvert

They’ll be fine for a long time, unless their democrats take the same immigration stance that ours do. Then it’ll be over for them in a month.


12 posted on 02/12/2018 4:48:25 PM PST by The Toll
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To: nuconvert

Israel is not an American state. It has 300+ nuclear weapons and the top military in the region, more than able to defend itself.


13 posted on 02/12/2018 5:22:41 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: SaveFerris

Thanks — it’s two pretending to be allies, and their prison bitch.


14 posted on 02/12/2018 7:39:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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