While publicly they both are constantly condemning one another, Iran and the United States have had extremely similar policies with respect to Iraq in recent years. And as the US changed their policy toward Iraq earlier this year, Iran followed suit.
Like the US, Iran was long a fan of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and as the losses to ISIS mounted, they cut him lose at roughly the same time. With fears of having a border with ISIS looming large, Iran has been eager to back whoever in Iraq would be an alternative, even arming the Kurdish Peshmerga.
Iran’s also been picking up its own military involvement on the ground in Iraq, though they’ve tried to keep the details a little less public than the Obama Administration has.
Images have emerged showing Iran’s Gen. Qassem Suleimani, the head of their Quds Force, on the ground in Amerli, during the recapture of the Turkomen town by Peshmerga and Shi’ite militias.
How much role the Quds Force played in the battle is still uncertain, but with the US giving air support in the attack on ISIS forces near Amerli, this is the closest to a joint US-Iranian operation yet, a trend which is likely to grow, even as US officials continue to rule out any direct coordination with Iran.
There are not many government in the region willing to fight ISIS, they are either under the payroll of Saudis, like Jordanian king or are the puppet of EU/NATO like Turkish Erdogan regime. So that's live Iran to act as they do helping pishmargan and other Kurdish fighters to fight the barbarians.
The least that the western regimes can do is kiss the Iranian hands thanking them for fighting ISIS, a fascist barbaric regime which western militarism regime have created in Iraq and Syria.
Why should the governments in the region fight ISIS? Too costly. US will.
I’m sure there is some form of communication between the US and Iran, directly or indirectly, but won’t go public with it. Netanyahu and the Israeli lobbyist in Washington would go bananas.
Netanyahu and AIPAC can shut their traps about what we do with Iran- it's our cooperation (if not overt coordination) with Iran that's providing a growing counterbalance to ISIS. If Netanyahu and Co. want the US to sever ties with Iran, they do at the risk of making Israel itself a bigger and fatter target than it already is in the eyes of the ISIS leadership. ISIS may be making threats against Putin and Russia at the moment, but you can bet your last paycheck that Israel is on the short list of nations to be taken out when the jihadi forces are prepared and in place.
Class slavery = Class war
Both Empire USA and Iran are ruled by the educated upper half of society, while the Islamic State is expanding by leaps and bounds as it has declared war on the upper half of Western society and refuses to allow such a greed driven democracy to continue to plunder, to plunder the Middle-East by trading Western war materials for Middle-East oil.
Freeing the Middle East and, by extension, nominally 'Muslim' lands of Western influence is indeed a worthy cause; there is no argument that decades of Western meddling in the region have produced a tangled mess of overlapping cultures and tribal boundaries.
What is NOT worthy, though, are the methods ISIS/ISIL is using to achieve this goal. Murder, summary executions, gunpoint conversion to Islam- none of these are noble and non of them are in keeping with the teachings of the Qur'an. ISIS/ISIL claims to have established an Islamic Caliphate- but that Caliphate in no way reflects authentic Islam. It's fighters violate, on a daily basis, some or all the rules of war as declared legal in the Qur'an, and their actions regarding forced conversions are so beyond what is actually taught by the Word of Allah as to make whatever they are doing appear to be a completely different religion than authentic Islam.
I support the generations-old view of re-establishing the greatness of the Islamic world of old- but not at the expense of my soul by breaking every rule in the Qur'an to achieve that goal. Do it right or don't do it at all- it really is that simple.
It should be obvious by now that the Arab middle east has been brought to this sad state by many decades of imperialistic follies and the consequent reawakening of theocracy and sectarianism. Therefore, the most logical course for the US to follow in attempting to defeat these Takfiris such as ISIS and al Nusra who are destroying Iraq and Syria and who woul like to destry everything progressive and tolerant in Arab society is support, at long last, the anti-imperial, anti-theocratic and anti-sectarian government of Syria. Everyone else; the Saudis Kuwaitis Turks Iraqis aas well as the Islamic Republic of Iran are tainted by sectarianism, support for the Takfifis, or both. The US did cooperated with Syria once, long ago, and the result was the end of the Lebanese civil war, a war which was also a sectariasn conflict stoked by the US, France and Israel.