Iran squashes IS, US scrambles for cover

[gurey25]

Iran squashes IS, US scrambles for cover
Fierce fighting has erupted around the Iraqi city of Tikrit to the north of Baghdad, best known the world over as the home town of Saddam Hussein and regarded to be the spiritual heartland of the Baathist regime. The Iraqi government forces launched an operation on Monday to recapture the city from the Islamic State [IS] militants. This hugely important development has three dimensions.

First, of course, if the operations succeed, it will constitute a big blow to the IS. Tikrit is not only a big trophy by itself but the Iraqi government will be carrying the war into the IS’ territory. Most likely, the next target will be Mosul, straddling Iraqi Kurdistan, where the IS’ dramatic surge first appeared last June. It is tempting to surmise that the IS faces a near-term prospect of extinction in military terms.

The second dimension is with regard to the crucial role that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards [IRGC] are reportedly playing in the Tikrit operation under the Iraqi flag. The BBC has reported, citing Shi’ite militia sources, that the charismatic and legendary commander of the IRGC Gen Qasem Soleimani has been seen in the frontline and is “personally taking part in leading the operation.” There is delightful irony that Soleimani is leading the liberation of the hometown of his old enemy Saddam. That apart, Shi’ite Iran is leading the fight today against a Sunni Islamist enemy who poses existential threat to the Sunni Arab regimes of the Gulf, especially Saudi Arabia, which has otherwise no love lost for Iran.

Finally, the fighting raging around Tikrit raises a big question: Where on earth is the US-led international coalition hiding? Iran has put the US and its coalition partners to shame by single-handedly taking the war into the IS tent. Iran is relentlessly exposing the IS as a pest that is easily squashed if gone about seriously, than the 10′ tall enemy with mythical prowess that the Western analysts made it out to be.

Meanwhile, the spin doctors are already at work, claiming that the US is deliberately steering clear of Tikrit as a matter of policy, since the fighting in Tikrit is spearheaded by the Shi’ite militia and there is a tacit ‘division of labor’ with Iran – a laughable proposition, to say the least.

Tehran alleges, on the other hand, that the US is actually dissimulating when it claims it is fighting the IS, and that in reality Washington has a nuanced approach that anticipates a future role for the IS as an instrument in its regional strategies. The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian literally ridiculed the US claims of fighting the IS, when he alleged in a speech in Tehran on Monday, “The US has created the anti-ISIL coalition with the participation of 60 countries, but the coalition’s main practical measure is confined to controlling and administering the ISIL.”

Abdollahian disclosed that the US military aircraft are ferrying supplies for the IS in Syria and Iraq by flying great distances. He asked, “How can one make a 900-kilometer mistake in distance?” Good question, indeed.

In Afghanistan too the US intervened militarily in 2001 on the pretext of vanquishing the Taliban, who have in a curious role reversal today become Washington’s key interlocutors — and, maybe, are being groomed to become tomorrow’s catalysts of change in the vast Central Asian steppes still under Russian influence, or China’s restive Xinjiang Autonomous Region which is struggling with Islamist militancy.

Posted in Military, Politics, Religion, Terrorism.

Tagged with Islamic State, Sunni-Shi'ite rivalry.

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By M K Bhadrakumar – March 3, 2015

[gurey25]

Dr Bhadrakumar is a diplomat and he cannot come out and say it.
The IS is US created and US controlled.
the US will do everything it can to protect and save IS.
Without invented things like IS the US has no role in the region and would have to stay the fuck out.
The tried to slip in their new invention IS-central asian chapter called state of Khorasan, but the taleban exterminated them like rats.
The US is now trying to negotiate with the taleban to allow them to help infect central asia, with a new IS clone.

this will not work because China and Russia who are the targets will squash them asap.
but what can the US do?
its lives by chaos and has a obcessive compulsive habit to spread chaos.

[bareento]

In the meantime , Netnayahu is humiliating Obama in Washington
trying to recrute americans for his jihad against...IRAN

B.

[LeJusticier]

I agree with Dr Bhadrakumar

[SecretAgent]

Turkey,qatar will train 15,000 moderates syrian rebels isil should be finish by 2016. While assad gets more time to stay in power.

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

Ain't nothing new. One can only imagine how many "rebels" in Somalia are in the pay of the west and it's proxy Ethiopia. Alshabab, ASWJ, khaatumo-seeg etc.

[waraabe251]

Iran the only defender of Islam from arabization

[Grant]

Dr Bhadrakumar is a diplomat and he cannot come out and say it.
The IS is US created and US controlled.
the US will do everything it can to protect and save IS.
Without invented things like IS the US has no role in the region and would have to stay the fuck out.
The tried to slip in their new invention IS-central asian chapter called state of Khorasan, but the taleban exterminated them like rats.
The US is now trying to negotiate with the taleban to allow them to help infect central asia, with a new IS clone.

this will not work because China and Russia who are the targets will squash them asap.
but what can the US do?
its lives by chaos and has a obcessive compulsive habit to spread chaos.

Gurey,

You've gone over the top since you moved home. I have to agree it's happened, but you make it sound as if these things were intentional and a plot against China and Russia. You simply don't need a conspiracy at that level to arrive at the same ends:

http://www.correntewire.com/of_course_w ... _heres_how

"When I say the United States “created” the Islamic State (or “ISIS” as it's sometimes known), one may very well think I'm also about to tell you that jet fuel can't melt steel and that Bush knocked down the towers. But this is no convoluted conspiracy involving holograms and crisis actors. It’s quite simple and tragic: The United States invaded Iraq, killed an ungodly amount of people who had friends and family who loved them, unleashed a wave of terrorism across the Middle East—turns out, watching one's mother die in a US airstrike does not nurture moderation—then installed and armed a sectarian Shiite leader in Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, who proceeded to kill, torture, and generally alienate the Sunni population of Iraq, which is now, not coincidentally, lending support to the Islamic State’s vicious brand of Sunni extremism.

By arming Iraq's military, the United States also effectively armed ISIS, which captured much of Iraq's high-powered weaponry when it swept through the north of the country. The US also facilitated the shipment of weapons to a hodgepodge of rebel groups fighting in Syria, with some of those weapons no doubt finding their way into the hands of those whose commitment to liberal democracy is no stronger than dictator-for-life Bashar Assad’s. Add all that up and you have, as with the Taliban and al-Qaeda before, another instance of the United States arming a future foe and then creating the conditions necessary for them to thrive.

It's a self-licking ice cream cone!"

To say the US will defend and save ISIS is just nutz.

[ZubeirAwal]

Qasim Suleimani is a beast, Shimon Peres (Israel) said he is the real rule of the Middle East, have you seen how he sent a letter right into Obama's evidence saying something like " Bismillahi Rahmani Raheem, with regards to your threats, we will see you soon.."

they were shocked that the letter made it to the president's office bypassing all of the other networks.

[gurey25]

Gurey,

You've gone over the top since you moved home. I have to agree it's happened, but you make it sound as if these things were intentional and a plot against China and Russia. You simply don't need a conspiracy at that level to arrive at the same ends:

The Daesh story is more complicated than what i wrote, its well known there is no conspiracy most people in the middle east consider it business as usual for the US.
technically the US did not create it, its created by arabs, they just took over management of it.

and you should understand the nature of this control/managment
think of it as a shephard herding sheep, you direct them, you stop them from going left and backwards when you want them to turn right,
vice versa for left.
Since they are not particularly sapiant , the animal example is very accurate.
latley the turks have been trying to manage them too.

and why do i seem over the top, i no longer live in an arab country i live in australia,
so i can talk about what i want without fear of the fuckers.
and let me tell you its not second hand sources from conspiracy sites that i get my info, sadly
its first hand info, and i cannot talk about that shit even in australia.

[gurey25]

and grant you may not want to believe it, but daesh is an instrument of US policy.
no denying it.
you want proof, explain why they have not been defeated yet?
they will be defeated by airstrikes in a couple of weeks, but they still stand?
The US is still dropping supplies to groups in Syria that are Daesh fronts,
so are you saying they are unaware?

yeah right, pull the other one.

and i wonder what idiot came up with the made up group that they bombed in syria, during the beginning of the fake air campaign.
I swear people were laughing out loud when they heard about it.

[Cherine]

1 drone is all it takes to turn Isis into mincemeat.

[SahanGalbeed]

US scrambles for cover ? Wallahi , the first reason I love America is precisely because of the opposite .
They see something , the first thing that crosses their mind is --> what can we do about it ? Very noble attitude that sometimes gets you unexpected outcomes but , thats life I guess ,I can relate with it anyway .

USA in my book