Iran in Iraq and Afghanistan — Poliquicks
Iran in Iraq and Afghanistan — Poliquicks
On 2 Oct 212, the New York Times wrote an article called: Iran’s Master of Iraq Chaos Still Vexes U.S, by Michael Gordon.
I wonder how many Washington officials and Congressman or Senators realy understood what he wrote.
Gordon wrote: “When a senior Iraqi intelligence official traveled to Tehran in the summer of 2007 to meet with the Iranian leadership, he quickly figured out who was in charge of Iran’s policy toward its neighbor to the west (Afghanistan).
“It was not the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It was Qassim Suleimani, the shadowy commander of Iran’s paramilitary Quds Force, who calmly explained that he was the ‘sole authority for Iranian actions in Iraq according to an account the Iraqi official later provided to American officials in Baghdad.”
He went on to write that Suleimani is a soft-spoken, gray-haired operative who carries himself with the confidence that comes from having the backing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader.
According to Gordon, General Suleimani is the antithesis of the bombastic Iranian president. Now a major general — the highest rank in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps — after a promotion last year, he has been the mastermind behind two central Iranian foreign policy initiatives, exerting and expanding Tehran’s influence in the internal politics of Iraq and providing military support for the rule of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
After the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, General Suleimani was given the mission of expanding Iran’s influence in Iraq, tying down the American military and, ultimately, encouraging its exit. This has to be a paramount objectives for an Iranian government that was determined to be a major power in the region.
The Quds Force’s assessment: ‘We have a golden opportunity. Now we can keep the Americans busy in this country, and as much as we can we should make chaos in this country,’ ” said Mohsen Sazegara, a founding member of the Revolutionary Guards who now lives in exile in the United States.
However, there are two other problem creators in Iran for the U.S. Others pulling strings are Gen. Mastafa Najjar (now Defense Minister) and Gen. Ahmad Vahidi formerly head of “assassinations abroad” and creator of the Quds Force (but currently the head of the WMD program). With Suleimani they make for a very deadly triad with a visceral hatred for the U.S.
We need to understand these gentlemen and what they work for - the destruction of the U.S. as we know it.