Iran’s Black Hand in Iraq - What is to be Done?
By
Move_Zig
on February 13, 2007 at 05:09 am
Anyone who has paid even a modicum of attention to history unfolding during the last fourty-odd years knows how insurgencies are fed from without. Insurrections without external support will generally fail. Iraq is no exception. What is happening in Iraq right now is no run-of-the-mill ‘civil war’ contrary to what the Leftist-controlled MSM would have the Unwashed Masses believe.
Iran, at least, fears the installation of a secular democracy at its doorstep and is heavily invested in the failure of Iraq’s fledgling democracy. Says Con Coughlin of the UK Telegragh:
That vision might look blurred in the light of the security situation in post-Saddam Iraq — a situation for which the Iranians must take most of the blame, given their support for the Shia Muslim militias doing their most to make Iraq ungovernable.
But even the suicide bombs and insurgent attacks cannot disguise the fact that progress has been made in changing Iraq to a functioning democracy. The country has a constitution approved by the majority of Iraqi voters in October 2005. The government elected last year is the first democratically elected administration in Iraq’s history.
Moreover, it is secular in outlook. For the guardians of the Ayatollah Khomeini revolution that swept to power in Teheran in 1979, it is an article of faith that an Islamic nation must be ruled by an Islamic government on the basis of Islamic law.
This particularly applies to those parts following the Shia tradition.
Outside Iran, the main areas of Shia influence are south Lebanon and southern Iraq. In Lebanon, Iran has imposed its ideology through Hizbollah, the Shia militia trying to bring down the secular government.
Now the Iranians are repeating the exercise in Iraq, where the Revolutionary Guards have forged ties with a variety of radical Shia militias — such as Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi army in Baghdad and the Badr brigade.
If the Americans establish a functioning, secular democracy in Baghdad, this raises questions about the regime in Iran. If Iraq’s 15 million Shia Muslims can tolerate a secular government, then why not Iran’s 50 million Shia?
Iran has been caught supplying over 800 Austrian-made .50 caliber sniper rifles and powerful armor-piercing roadside bombs to the Iraqi insurgents, as well as taking part in the fighting themselves.
The lethal bombs are being made by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps at ordnance factory sites in Teheran, according to opponents of the country’s theocratic regime.
Designed to penetrate heavy armour, the devices being manufactured in Iran involve the use of “explosively formed projectiles” or EFPs, also known as shaped charges, often triggered by infra-red beams.
The weapons can pierce the armour of British and American tanks and armoured personnel carriers and completely destroy armoured Land Rovers, which are used by the majority of British troops on operations in Iraq.
The Sunday Telegraph revealed in April that Iranian-made devices employing several EFPs, directed at different angles, were being used in Iraq.
Outrageously, the US-based Left, politicos and Leftist MSM alike, are pushing hard for a US defeat.
Any successes we have had and will continue to have, will be despite the US-based Left (and I cannot say American Leftists, since that is a contradiction in terms).
Between its wild threats, wedded to the concrete steps at acquiring an offensive nuclear capability, added to its constantly and clearly- stated intent to attack the US and Western interests, our need is to take Iran out as a threat to the West and to the region. This may be easier than at first suspected, as the Iranian regime is highly unpopular at home. If an alliance can be made, such as with the Kurds in Afghanistan, Iran can be made to suffer blowback in the form of its own popular insurrection.
Will we be allowed to do it, given that those who have proven — time and time again (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Iran, Nicaragua, Angola, Southwest Africa, Rhodesia and South Africa) to have taken sides with enemies of freedom, against US and Western interests—are in control of both the House and Senate?
“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague.”
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator --- 106-43 B.C.
Iran, at least, fears the installation of a secular democracy at its doorstep and is heavily invested in the failure of Iraq’s fledgling democracy. Says Con Coughlin of the UK Telegragh:
That vision might look blurred in the light of the security situation in post-Saddam Iraq — a situation for which the Iranians must take most of the blame, given their support for the Shia Muslim militias doing their most to make Iraq ungovernable.
But even the suicide bombs and insurgent attacks cannot disguise the fact that progress has been made in changing Iraq to a functioning democracy. The country has a constitution approved by the majority of Iraqi voters in October 2005. The government elected last year is the first democratically elected administration in Iraq’s history.
Moreover, it is secular in outlook. For the guardians of the Ayatollah Khomeini revolution that swept to power in Teheran in 1979, it is an article of faith that an Islamic nation must be ruled by an Islamic government on the basis of Islamic law.
This particularly applies to those parts following the Shia tradition.
Outside Iran, the main areas of Shia influence are south Lebanon and southern Iraq. In Lebanon, Iran has imposed its ideology through Hizbollah, the Shia militia trying to bring down the secular government.
Now the Iranians are repeating the exercise in Iraq, where the Revolutionary Guards have forged ties with a variety of radical Shia militias — such as Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi army in Baghdad and the Badr brigade.
If the Americans establish a functioning, secular democracy in Baghdad, this raises questions about the regime in Iran. If Iraq’s 15 million Shia Muslims can tolerate a secular government, then why not Iran’s 50 million Shia?
Iran has been caught supplying over 800 Austrian-made .50 caliber sniper rifles and powerful armor-piercing roadside bombs to the Iraqi insurgents, as well as taking part in the fighting themselves.
The lethal bombs are being made by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps at ordnance factory sites in Teheran, according to opponents of the country’s theocratic regime.
Designed to penetrate heavy armour, the devices being manufactured in Iran involve the use of “explosively formed projectiles” or EFPs, also known as shaped charges, often triggered by infra-red beams.
The weapons can pierce the armour of British and American tanks and armoured personnel carriers and completely destroy armoured Land Rovers, which are used by the majority of British troops on operations in Iraq.
The Sunday Telegraph revealed in April that Iranian-made devices employing several EFPs, directed at different angles, were being used in Iraq.
Outrageously, the US-based Left, politicos and Leftist MSM alike, are pushing hard for a US defeat.
Any successes we have had and will continue to have, will be despite the US-based Left (and I cannot say American Leftists, since that is a contradiction in terms).
Between its wild threats, wedded to the concrete steps at acquiring an offensive nuclear capability, added to its constantly and clearly- stated intent to attack the US and Western interests, our need is to take Iran out as a threat to the West and to the region. This may be easier than at first suspected, as the Iranian regime is highly unpopular at home. If an alliance can be made, such as with the Kurds in Afghanistan, Iran can be made to suffer blowback in the form of its own popular insurrection.
Will we be allowed to do it, given that those who have proven — time and time again (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Iran, Nicaragua, Angola, Southwest Africa, Rhodesia and South Africa) to have taken sides with enemies of freedom, against US and Western interests—are in control of both the House and Senate?
“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague.”
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator --- 106-43 B.C.
