(exile) Group claims Iran has agents in Iraq - AP

[Eugene]

Friday, January 26, 2007 · Last updated 8:00 p.m. PT

Group claims Iran has agents in Iraq

By JAMEY KEATEN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

PARIS -- Iran has thousands of paid operatives working in neighboring Iraq, an Iranian
opposition group based in France claimed Friday.

The National Council of Resistance's allegations could not be independently verified.
A press officer at the Iranian Embassy in Paris, speaking on condition of anonymity
because of embassy policy, called the claims "completely false" and said Tehran
supports stability in the region.

The council is the political wing of the People's Mujahedeen of Iran, deemed a terrorist
organization by the United States.

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His opposition group released the names, alleged dates of recruitment by Iran and the
supposed salaries of 31,690 Iraqis. It claimed that most were paid by the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard, Qods Force - a faction of the Iranian military that the U.S. military
says bankrolls militants in Iraq and equips them with weapons.

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Full article: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107AP_France_Iran_Iraq.html

Take this with a grain of salt, but the exiles have just given the U.S. military a list
of almost 32,000 targets.

[montanacowboy]

1. Curveball or Chalabi?

take your pick, and here we go again boys and girls

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. "could not be independently verified."

That OUGHT to wrap that one up. I wouldn't have after the 9/11 hysteria, but perhaps we are all a little wiser now?

[USA_1]

3. For Some Reich Wingers, Probably Not ...

[Leopolds Ghost]

4. No Way.

You gotta be kidding me.

I don't believe it.

You're trying to tell me Iran has thousands of agents in Iraq?

A country whose Supreme Ayatollah speaks Farsi and was born in
the holy city of Qom, has been infiltrated by Iranians?

Next you'll tell me that Miami has been infiltrated by
right-wing Cubans and Latin American drug lords, who are
working tirelessly to undermine democracy in the state
of Florida, and we should therefore invade Cuba and Columbia.

In other words: No shit sherlock. Tell me something we don't know (that might serve as a justification for war on Iran)

Most empires know that when you are fighting a proxy war against
enemy agents from a foreign power and LOSING, you don't expand the war
by frontal assault against the people you are already losing against.

Were we mainly fighting the Chinese in North Korea? Yes.

Would invading China have caused us to win the Korean War? No.

The same situation applies here. Right now, the entire Iraqi
government is dependent on Iran politically and economically.

Even the Kurds are allied with Iran against Turkey and the Sunni Arabs.

The original post and replies to this post seem to indicate that not everyone understands that the reason we are losing the war in Iraq
is because Iran has already won. They control the entire south of
the country. Even the "moderate" ayatollahs and militias were trained, equipped, and funded by "moderates" in Iran for the purposes of creating a Shi'ite client state, preferably extending all the way to the Syrian border.