I had to read the opening paragraphs of this story three times to make sure I had it right - the Iranians are threatening to attack the Kurds and the supposed terrorist group PJAK INSIDE of Iraq because the group had been given a huge tract of land INSIDE of Iraq by an IRAQI Kurdish President.
Got that? In other words, the Iranians are going to fly into and/or send ground troops INTO the nation of Iraq to attack the Kurdish terrorists. Now, I'm not quite sure if the Iraqis are going to sit back and relish in this as they can get the Kurds attacked without them being blamed or if the Iraqis will stand up and tell Iran that there's no way in hell they are allowed in their country or airspace. I'm afraid the former is going to be true. I gotta believe the Iranians wouldn't even make this threat without clearing it with Baghdad ahead of time.
Here's some of the article at Breitbart:
Iran threatened Monday to take military action against the Iraq-based Kurdish rebel group PJAK, saying the head of Iraq's Kurdistan region had handed the group land without telling the government in Baghdad.
A senior Iranian military official accused Masoud Barzani, the Kurdistan president, of "giving 300,000 hectares of land to the PJAK terrorist group without the knowledge of the central government in Baghdad," the semi-official Fars news agency said.
"Iran reserves its right to target and destroy terrorist bases in the border areas," he said. "This terrorist group carries out operations against the Iranian nation with the support of Iraq's Kurdish regional government."
So, is it now Iran that speaks for the "central government in Baghdad?" Are you telling me that the Iraqi government hasn't issued a single statement about this and is going to let Iran take the measure into their hands?
I'm hoping to see some clarification from the Iraqis but what this appears to me to be is the first real indication that Iran is beginning their sphere of influence and domination over Iraq. I can tell you this - there are going to be plenty of Iraqi Sunnis right now who are going to be like cats on hot tin roofs when they hear this news.
Oh, by the way, I almost forgot something. What, pray tell, will happen if Iran sends their troops into Iraq to carry out a raid on the PJAK and the first people they meet inside of Iraq are U.S. Army soldiers?
Iran threatens to attack Iraq-based Kurdish rebels
(Reuters) - Iran threatened Monday to take military action against the Iraq-based Kurdish rebel group PJAK, saying the head of Iraq's Kurdistan region had handed the group land without telling the government in Baghdad.
A senior Iranian military official accused Masoud Barzani, the Kurdistan president, of "giving 300,000 hectares of land to the PJAK terrorist group without the knowledge of the central government in Baghdad," the semi-official Fars news agency said.
"Iran reserves its right to target and destroy terrorist bases in the border areas," he said. "This terrorist group carries out operations against the Iranian nation with the support of Iraq's Kurdish regional government."
Iranian media often report clashes in western Iran between security forces and Kurdish guerrillas said to be members of the
Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), an offshoot of the Turkey-based Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which took up arms in 1984 for an ethnic homeland in southeast Turkey and northwest Iran.
Like Iraq and Turkey, Iran has a large Kurdish minority, mainly living in northwest and western areas of the Islamic Republic.
"We will not allow terrorists to nest in Iraq and to carry out attacks against our nation with the support of America and the Zionist regime (Israel)," Fars quoted the unidentified military official as saying.
The official urged Iraq to investigate the issue.
Iran and Iraq fought an eight-year war in the 1980s, but since the overthrow in 2003 of Iraq's Saddam Hussein, a Sunni, relations between majority Shi'ite Iraq and predominantly Shi'ite Iran have improved.
Iran is at odds with the United States and its allies over its nuclear program, which the West says is a cover for building nuclear bombs.
Tehran denies the allegation, saying it needs nuclear technology to generate electricity for its growing population.
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