Secretary of State John Kerry continues to very publicly change his mind on his position vis-a-vis Iran in the war against ISIS, insisting today that Iran has a “role” to play in the destruction of ISIS.
Over the past two weeks, Kerry has several times ruled out including Iran in the anti-ISIS coalition, insisting it would be “inappropriate” to invite them to have any role in the conflict.
Iran, of course, was already in the conflict before the US war began, providing troops to Iraq to help fight off ISIS as far back June, and coordinating anti-ISIS operations with Syria long before that.
Now that the US has moved into the operation, they’ve decided to pick and choose who gets to be involved in the war, and most of the time, with an eye toward keeping the Saudis placated, that doesn’t include Iran.
At the same time, White House officials say that President Obama is “open” to meeting his Iranian counterpart in New York next week during the UN General Assembly, though no such meeting is presently scheduled.
We saud it before, There are only three governments in the region that are fighting ISIS with their solders on the ground, if USG truly wants to defeats these Saudis barbarians they need to help and cooperate in full with Iran, Iraq and Syrian government. Bombing ISIS to to hell by USG and France is also a good thing.
This administration and Israel have been badmouthing Iran for a long time, and they expect "the axis of evil" to help them out with "terrorists of the century" ? How stupid can you get ? The USA made itself a hard bed, now they can lay in ti.
Kerry: Iran has an assigned role, so long as it is obedient. It has no independent agency and will get no consideration of its own concerns. It can serve us, quietly, but that's all. Nothing it needs or wants is "legitimate." Meanwhile, no matter what it does to help or placate us, we will continue to do all we can to destroy it, as we have since we instigated the 8-year long Iraq attack on Iran including the gas weapons we gave Iraq to use on Iran with out help.
"It is characteristic that the US-Israel relations are not in the best shape, and this is not only due to the Israeli policy concerning Gaza, but also because the US are trying to approach Iran, and one reason is probably because they think that the Iranian army, which did not get involved in deleterious wars for many years, is suitable to contribute to the fight against the IS fighters."
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/08/tempor…
It doesn't matter whose in the coalition unless the US is willing to force peace between Israel and the Palestinians along the green line, provide Palestinians with security, keep the rockets from firing into Israel, finish the diplomacy with Iran on its nuclear program, diplomatically try lower the discord between Shia and Sunni, discourage the region from funding and preaching extremism, and stop destabilizing the region by overthrowing governments, displacing and killing civilians. If the US does not deal with the cause of the insurgency then it will be a very long, long lost war. They all have a common enemy so they should have to deal with each other to deal with ISIS. Instead of arming the moderate mujahedin the US should encourage the Sunni and Shia regimes to find a diplomatic solution to Syria. Iran can help fight ISIS so the moderate mujahedin can focus on bringing down Assad. Then the road to Tehran from Damascus will be opened for the kill.