Iran-Iraq Military Cooperation Deal

Date: 25 July 2017 - 21:51

News ID: ۴۲۱۴۰

By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The Defense Ministers of Iraq and Iran have agreed to a memorandum of understanding which aims to increase military cooperation between the two sides, with a focus on fighting against terrorism and cooperation on technical and border security matters.
U.S. officials are likely to object to this agreement, as the U.S. has been presenting Iranian support for the Syrian and Iraqi governments in fighting against ISIL as part of their "destabilization” of the region, and one of the reasons for more U.S. sanctions against Tehran.
That’s an ongoing problem for the U.S., as the 2003 U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq forced Baghdad to have very close ties to Iran, and they’ve retained those ties despite general U.S. hostility toward Iran.
With the focus of both Iraq and Iran primarily at fighting against ISIL, it’s no surprise the two sides would be cooperating, as they have a natural mutual interest in this fight.
That says why the United States and its partners in crime are having nightmares in both Iraq and Syria. Now that the national armies and volunteer forces are putting the last nails in the coffin of ISIL in Iraq and Syria, the War Party claims its airstrikes have devastated ISIL.
Remember, until yesterday it was the same U.S. that looked the other way as foreign terrorists used the Turkish border to join ISIL in Iraq and Syria. The question is why the U.S. is no longer looking the other way. Why is the U.S. bombing ISIL? Why does the U.S. appear to have changed its policy now?
The answer is obvious: As the saying goes if you can’t beat them, join them. And joining the Iraqi and Syrian forces is what the U.S. has been forced to do lately - and indirectly. It is clear that ISIL is under intense pressure. The Iraqi army has opened humanitarian corridors for the remaining civilians trapped in terror-held areas.
The same is true in Syria. ISIL is losing big time there too. It has lost massive territories, so much so that the self-declared caliphate has reportedly ordered its masked psychopaths to leave immediately and relocate themselves in Libya.
Now, just like the U.S. officials, Western media outlets are still under the illusion that the U.S. can have a say in these new circumstances. They claim it is because of the U.S.-led airstrikes that ISIL fighters are fleeing Iraq and Syria. They are also under the illusion that it is the U.S.-backed ‘moderate’ terrorists that are liberating Syria, which is wishful thinking and far from the truth.
Perhaps the regime changers want to save face and have a say in the region’s future politics. Perhaps they think the world community has a short-term memory and will not remember how the "Assad must go” gang behaved right until yesterday. Whatever their wishes, the ongoing campaigns to liberate Iraq and Syria from the "American Caliphate” in no way depend on the American air power.
It all depends on the allied forces of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Russia. That’s why they have signed a military agreement to stick together until the last remnants of ISIL and Al-Qaeda are dislodged from the Levant.