Irans geheimer Krieg
Dokumente, die dem “Time Magazine” vorlegen, belegen, dass der Iran schon vor der amerikanischen Invasion versuchte, grösseren Einfluss auf den Irak zu nehmen:
Before the March 2003 invasion, military sources say, elements of up to 46 Iranian infantry and missile brigades moved to buttress the border. Positioned among them were units of the Badr Corps, formed in the 1980s as the armed wing of the Iraqi Shi’ite group known by its acronym SCIRI, now the most powerful party in Iraq. Divided into northern, central and southern axes, Badr’s mission was to pour into Iraq in the chaos of the invasion to seize towns and government offices, filling the vacuum left by the collapse of Saddam’s regime. As many as 12,000 armed men, along with Iranian intelligence officers, swarmed into Iraq.
Und die Militarisierung wird vom Regime fortgesetzt:
(…) And a steady flow of weapons continues to arrive from Iran through the porous southern border. “They use the legal checkpoints to move personnel, and the weapons travel through the marshes and areas to our north,” says a British officer in Basra. Top diplomats and intelligence officials know that some Iranian officers are providing assistance to Shi’ite insurgents, but it’s dwarfed by the amount of money and matériel flowing in from Iraq’s Arab neighbors to Sunni insurgents.
Zu einer düsteren Einschätzung der Lage für die amerikanischen Truppen kommt Ronald Brownstein in der L.A. Times:
The dispute over bases parallels the debate over setting a deadline to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. In both cases, war critics believe that signaling America’s determination to leave will help marginalize the insurgency. War supporters fear the same signal will embolden insurgents to try to outlast the United States.
The most ominous, and perhaps most likely, possibility is that insurgents and Islamic extremists will wage war against an Iraqi government allied with the United States whether we stay or go.
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