Tahiri: Basra 'Rising' Was Iranian Operation
By Rizzuto

Thu Apr 10, 2008 - What was really going on in Basra last month? Amir Tahiri has what I consider to be the best analysis of the true nature of last months conflict. From the New York Post:
Iran's state-run media have de facto confirmed that this was no spontaneous "uprising." Rather, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) tried to seize control of Iraq's second-largest city using local Shiite militias as a Trojan horse.

The Iranian plan - developed by Revolutionary Guard's Quds (Jerusalem) unit, which is in charge of "exporting the Islamic Revolution" - aimed at a quick victory. To achieve that, Tehran spent vast sums persuading local Iraqi security personnel to switch sides or to remain neutral.

The hoped-for victory was to be achieved as part of a massive Shiite uprising spreading from Baghdad to the south via heartland cities such as Karbala, Kut and al-Amarah...
A failed Iranian op meant to spread further unrest and seperatism throughout the Shi'ite dominated portions of Iraq? Yeah...we're not in a proxy war with Iran. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. I blockquoted, but I urge you to read Tahiri's whole piece.




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Comments : 1 Comment

mfee01 commented, on April 10, 2008 at 10:44 a.m.:

Iran is and has always been the most destabilizing force in the region. Do we need another war? no. Can we afford not to have one? I believe the answer is no to. We wait to long and we will be looking down the nuclear barrel. Fight now conventionally or later nuclear. either way it's going to be a fight, the amount of destruction is the only unknown. We all know the true goal of Islam, (if there are any doubts just read the Koran) which is the global takeover by Islam and the enslavement of the populations of the world to this barbaric "religion" We fight it or our kids fight it.