Despite the Obama Administration considering direct security talks with Iran on the worsening situation in Iraq, the Pentagon insists that there will be no coordinated military action with Iran.
Iran was the first country to send aid to Iraq’s Maliki government as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) began to sweep through the nation’s west and drew close to Baghdad. The Iranian Quds Force commander is coordinating the defense of Baghdad.
The Obama Administration has raised the prospect of similarly aiding the Maliki government, likely with air strikes, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani proposed a joint operation to save their mutual ally from the ISIS takeover.
The Pentagon has long blamed Iran for everything that has gone wrong with Iraq, particularly during the long US occupation, and even though that narrative no longer flies in the face of the growing sectarian war, it seems the mistrust remains. The Pentagon is adamant on this, though the State Department is said to be more open to the idea.
denial = confirmation
Cause they are pansies who need to run everything by Israel first.
ISIS is supported by the Gulf States, who are US allies. To the extent that the US intervenes militarily, it will be for the limited purpose of preventing ISIS from entering Shia and Kurdish majority regions of Iraq as the US has no problem with ISIS removing Sunni majority areas from the control of the Iraqi government. Throughout the Middle East, the US generally aligns itself with the Sunni instead of the Shia (consider Bahrain, Lebanon, and, of course, Saudi Arabia), and hence, has no problem with the partition of Iraq, a partition that neoconservatives and Joe Biden have advocated in the past. Kenneth Roth, the director of Human Rights Watch, an organization known for tacking closely to US government policy, gave it away last week when he tweeted that ISIS has been more responsive to the Sunni populace that the Maliki government. Lost in the explosion of twitter condemnation was the fact that he had exposed the true US position in the conflict as a consequence of his ham handed effort to legitimize ISIS.
Well they would have to sort out some sort of chain of command and its not at all clear that the Iranian generals would defer to americans the way other nato generals do.
A (friendly) bit of advice for Iran. When playing (cards) with the USG, sit
with your back against the wall. Seated in this position (could) protect
your back from sharp items such as: (carving knives, switch blades, spears…)