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Has anyone looked at how much territory IS controls? That would also include a lot of desert and since IS is gang operated, if the government does not have a presence and control of the area you can never be sure if you might get kidnapped or shot so that would also be IS controlled.
https://twitter.com/Hayder_alKhoei/status/702267525418131456
So they don’t like it? Well they started it…
Tehran and its proxies have increased their efforts to provide armor-piercing explosive devices to Shiite cells in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, and this game-changing escalation could pose even greater challenges if Riyadh takes further action in Syria.
As Saudi Arabia publicly discusses its options for direct intervention in Syria, Riyadh and its partners will need to consider how Iran might react to such a move. The answer may be apparent in the increasingly bold efforts by Iranian-backed Shiite militant groups to smuggle advanced roadside bombs into not only Bahrain, but also the neighboring Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, a predominately Shiite area that holds more than 20 percent of the world’s total proven oil reserves and serves as the center of the kingdom’s oil and petrochemicals industries. Almost unnoticed by the international community, Tehran has been ramping up its risk-taking behavior amid growing sectarian polarization in the region and intensified competition with Riyadh. Among other provocations, it began sending advanced armor-piercing explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) into the kingdom last year and has provided cells in Bahrain with the know-how for manufacturing such weapons themselves — a stark warning to the Saudis and a harbinger of what may unfold if they do in fact upgrade their military commitment in Syria.
IRAN’S GULF ESCALATION
lots of blah blah blah’s….
THE EFP PROBLEM
The provision of EFPs and firing kits is a particularly dangerous phenomenon. The EFP is a form of roadside charge that has exceptional armor-piercing capabilities and is easily concealed and detonated. High explosives are packed into a cylinder akin to a paint can with the lid removed. A concave liner of professionally milled copper or steel is then clamped over the cylinder’s open end. When the explosive is detonated, it creates a focused jet of hypervelocity molten metal that can cut through even the heaviest main battle tank armor at close range. In Iraq, 1,526 EFPs killed a total of 196 U.S. troops and injured 861 others between November 2005 and December 2011.
IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. POLICY
If Saudi Arabia intervenes more intensively in Syria, it will likely face blowback at home. In 2011, Riyadh’s intervention in Bahrain and its early support for the Syrian opposition may have contributed to the attempted Iranian assassination of the Saudi ambassador in Washington later that year, as well as Tehran’s eventual decision to ramp up paramilitary backing for proxies in Yemen, Bahrain, and now the Eastern Province.
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/iranian-efps-in-the-gulf-an-emerging-strategic-risk
Dude. You’re quoting so much propaganda.
There was no attempt on the Saudi ambassador in Washington. Pure fiction and now you’re repeating it for what reason?
Do you have evidence Iran is providing armour piercing weapons, or any weapons whatsoever to Shia cells in Bahrain or Saudi. As per usual, your link does not provide evidence of anything.
Is this the setup for an Israeli-Saudi false flag blamed on Iran? Sure looks like you’re doin’ some leg work for just such an occaison.
Iran is doing everything it can to please the Empire — to the point of almost abandoning the Russians in Syria.
Where are the forces promised by Sulemeini? No I don’t mean the Hazara from Afganistan or Iraqis.
Where are the Persians, aka bearded Siberians that were promised and without which Russia would not have agreed to join?
Evidence is everywhere that it’s all business as usual with this so-called ‘truce’; none of their strategy nor targets has changed.
Stories everywhere.
The United States has decided to build new military bases in Iraq’s Anbar Province in an alleged bid to counter Daesh Takfiri terrorists in the volatile region.
An Iraqi military source said on Wednesday that the two bases will be set up in the Hamarah region northeast of the city of Fallujah and in areas close to the Iraqi-Syria border.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/02/24/452106/Iraq-Anbar-Ramadi-US-military-base
Truce is absolutely useless unless it claims to act & acts on the root financing of these arms & interdiction of same.
Wed Feb 24, 2016 2:46
Terrorists Receive New Arms Cargos from Turkey
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13941205000571
Earlier this week, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that more than 80 nations, particularly Turkey and Saudi Arabia, have provided financial, logistical and material assistance to terrorist groups, who are fighting in Syria.
The Syrian leader described foreign sponsorship as “active” and “unlimited.” Some of those countries support radicals “directly with money, with logistical support, with armaments, with recruitments,” he noted in an interview with Spain’s El Pais newspaper.
Operation Beau Geste commences!
Even faster than explicitly predicted yesterday with that supposed Syria ‘truce’ signed, & before that.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/02/24/452148/Libya-France-Daesh
A report says French special forces have been deployed in Libya under the pretext of fighting Daesh terrorists operating in the North African country.
On Wednesday, France’s Le Monde reported that French special forces and members of the DGSE external security service were in Libya for “clandestine operations” against Daesh militants.
Following the release of the report, French officials said they had launched a probe into a possible leak of classified documents.
We can all hope the opening charge is personally led by the Generalissimo of the FFL himself:
http://media.meltybuzz.fr/article-1253755-ajust_930-f54831/francois-hollande.jpg
https://www.corbettreport.com/
Interesting insights from Pepe Escobar on Syria.
President Barack Obama sounded a cautious note Wednesday about steps the US and Russia are taking to put in place a cease-fire to help end the Syrian civil war, while citing progress in pushing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group out territory in Iraq and some parts of Syria.
Obama’s comments came after meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House, where the two leaders said the political process and taking the fight to ISIL are their top priorities in Syria. The cease-fire is set to take effect Saturday, but does not cover ISIL.
http://www.todayszaman.com/latest-news_obama-sounds-cautious-note-about-pending-syrian-cease-fire_413229.html