Ya’alon: Iran cynically fueling conflict in Iraq, to ensure it remains a failed state

Times of Israel ^ | May 27, 2015, 10:16 pm | Mitch Ginsburg

[Olog-hai]

Israel’s defense minister on Wednesday warned that Iran, an ostensible partner in the US-led fight against the Islamic State, has nothing but ill intentions toward Iraq and has cynically perpetuated the conflict in order to ensure that the country remains a failed state.

“He who did not allow stability in Iraq since 2003 is Iran,” Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said at the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies’ annual security conference.

“From its perspective, a strong Iraq runs counter to its own interests. From its perspective Iraq needs to be weak, bleeding.”

Ya’alon said that Tehran’s primary goal is to perpetuate the conflict, meaning that it often aids Shiite militias against Sunni forces, and at times, he asserted, has even funded Sunni forces fighting the United States. …

[Capt. Tom]

Ya’alon said that Tehran’s primary goal is to perpetuate the conflict, meaning that it often aids Shiite militias against Sunni forces, and at times, he asserted, has even funded Sunni forces fighting the United States. …

The bottom line in Iraq looks like the Kurds will cut out their own territory, Baghdad will be taken over by Shiite Iran, and the Sunni ISIS will get what they can out of what's left.

As for us Infidels, we will be plagued by Muslim attacks in our own country as long as there is a Koran and Hadith to be read. - Tom

[Olog-hai]

Iran will never allow the Kurds to have an autonomous state, ever. What makes things worse is that any territory of Iraq controlled by Iran gives Iran a direct connection to the Mediterranean.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Olog-hai.

...Iran, an ostensible partner in the US-led fight against the Islamic State, has nothing but ill intentions toward Iraq and has cynically perpetuated the conflict in order to ensure that the country remains a failed state.

Not just Iraq -- has maintained an occupying terrorist army in Lebanon (failed state), has now moved into Syria (failed state), funds terrorists in the Near East, Central Asia, Africa, Latin America, and North America, and yet never lacks for shills on the internet.

[Capt. Tom]

Iran will never allow the Kurds to have an autonomous state, ever.

I don't think that will stop the KURDS from trying.
This will aggravate the hell out of neighboring Sunni Turkey, and might cut the KURDS some slack with Shiite Iran.-Tom

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Iran will snap up Sumer in south Iraq—(Basra as her capital—it will be a client state of the Mullahs. The Kurds will get their state and IS (or a sunni state) will take and rule (or mis-rule) the middle.