Why is Obama empowering Iran with $150 Billion and in time nuclear weapons and the means to delivering them given Iran’s history of killing Americans and consistently calling for Death to America? Why?
By Colonel (ret.) Richard Kemp and Major (ret.) Chris Driver-Williams, JCPA March 2015
Preface
Iranian-supplied weapons have led to casualties across the Western alliance for Britain, Israel, and the United States. Tehran has used its weapons deliveries to fuel a number of regional insurgencies, like the Houthi revolt in Yemen.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Hizbullah proxy serve as expeditionary forces for Iran throughout the Middle East, with the latter coordinating terror attacks and fundraising activities in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
State-of-the-art roadside bombs — Explosively Formed Penetrators (EFPs) — from Iran in particular were undoubtedly the most lethal Iranian weapon used against British and American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thus the analysis that follows by two former British officers is of extreme importance to anyone concerned with halting the destabilization of the Middle East and the future security of the region.
– Amb. Dore Gold
Executive Summary
- Iranian military action, often working through proxies using terrorist tactics, has led to the deaths of well over a thousand American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last decade and a half.
- Throughout the course of the Iraq campaign, a variety of weapons flowed into the country through direct purchases by the government of Iran. These included Explosively Formed Penetrators (EFPs), a shaped charge designed to penetrate armor. These weapons – often camouflaged as rocks – were identical to those employed by Hizbullah against Israeli forces. In 2006, the British Telegraph revealed that three Iranian factories were “mass producing” the roadside EFP bombs used to kill soldiers in Iraq.
- In 2007, American troops discovered over 100 Austrian-made Steyr HS50 .50 caliber sniper rifles in Iraq. These high-powered rifles, which fire Iranian bullets, can pierce all in-service body armor from up to a mile and penetrate U.S. armored Humvee troop carriers. The rifles were part of a larger shipment legally purchased from the Austrian manufacturer under the justification that they would be used by Iranian police to combat drug smugglers.
- Iran paid Taliban fighters $1,000 for each U.S. soldier they killed in Afghanistan. TheSunday Times reported that a Taliban operative received $18,000 from an Iranian firm in Kabul as reward for an attack in 2010 that killed several Afghan government troops and destroyed an American armored vehicle.
- Iranian President Rouhani’s so-called “moderation” was displayed when he appointed Brig.-Gen. Hossein Dehghan to be minister of defense. Dehghan played a key role in the October 1983 suicide bomb attacks in Beirut in which 241 U.S. Marines and 58 French paratroopers were killed. Meanwhile, inside Iran, Rouhani has presided over a rise in repression, including executions, torture of political prisoners, and persecution of minorities.
CONTENTS
Preface
Executive Summary
Introduction
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Killing U.S. and Allied Troops in Iraq
Killing U.S. and Allied Troops in Afghanistan
Killing Americans and Allies Globally
Killing America’s Israeli Allies
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Iran Killing American Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
By Jeffery Goldberg, THE ATLANTIC, July 6/2011
Just so we’re absolutely clear about the nature of the Iranian regime, here are two reports about Iranian efforts to kill American soldiers. From The Wall Street Journal:
The Revolutionary Guard has smuggled rocket-assisted exploding projectiles to its militia allies in Iraq, weapons that have already resulted in the deaths of American troops, defense officials said. They said Iranians have also given long-range rockets to the Taliban in Afghanistan, increasing the insurgents’ ability to hit U.S. and other coalition positions from a safer distance.
Such arms shipments would escalate the shadow competition for influence playing out between Tehran and Washington across the Middle East and North Africa, fueled by U.S. preparations to draw down forces from two wars and the political rebellions that are sweeping the region.
And from The Washington Post:
James F. Jeffrey, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, said Tuesday that fresh forensic testing on weapons used in the latest deadly attacks in the country bolsters assertions by U.S. officials that Iran is supporting Iraqi insurgents with new weapons and training.
“We’re not talking about a smoking pistol. There is no doubt this is Iranian,” Jeffrey said in an interview.
“We’re seeing more lethal weapons, more accurate weapons, more longer-range weapons,” Jeffrey added. “And we’re seeing more sophisticated mobile and other deployment options, and we’re seeing better-trained people.”
What does this mean? It means that Iran is waging war against the United States of America. Or, to put it another way, it means that Iran doesn’t seem particularly interested in entering into a dialogue with the Obama Administration at the moment. Unless, of course, this is just a cry for help.
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“Death to America!” and the Iran Deal
The New Yorker? – 3 days ago“Well, I kind of take that to mean that they want us dead,” Poe countered. … During the final weeks of diplomacy between American and Iranian …
- PressTV-‘Americans tired of Israel lobby’
Press TV? – 7 hours ago
Iran: US Soldiers Killed Number Over 1,000 | National …
www.nationalreview.com/…/iran-responsible-more-1000-american-milita…
Jul 14, 2015 – Iran Is Responsible for More Than 1,000 American Military Deaths Since 9/11 … Until Iran stops trying to kill Americans and stops imprisoning …
US military says Iran behind rising deaths – Washington Post
Jun 30, 2011 – Three U.S. service members were killed Wednesday in southern Iraq, adding to an already deadly month for American forces.
Iran letter author: ‘They’ve been killing Americans for 35 …
thehill.com/…/235158-iran-letter-author-theyve-been-killing–americans-f…
Mar 10, 2015 – “They’ve been killing Americans for 35 years, they’ve killed hundreds of troops in Iran, now they control five capitols in the Middle East,” he said …
Record Number of U.S. Troops Killed by Iranian Weapons …
www.nationaljournal.com/record-number-of-u-s-troops-killed-by-irania…
Jul 28, 2011 – Iranian-made weaponry is killing American troops in Iraq at an unprecedented pace, U.S. military commanders in Iraq say.(Getty Images).
Iranian Weapons ‘Killing Our Troops’ in Iraq, U.S. Says
www.huffingtonpost.com/…/iranian-weapons-iraq-us-troops_n_892399….
Jul 7, 2011 – Fifty-one American troops have been killed in Iraq since President Obama… In a meeting with reporters Thursday, Mullen said Iran is “shipping …
Is Iran killing U.S. soldiers in Iraq? | Foreign Policy
foreignpolicy.com/2011/06/28/is-iran–killing-u-s-soldiers-in-iraq/
Jun 28, 2011 – The American combat mission officially ended in August 2010, and the 45,000 U.S. … “The Iranians and Sadrists are taking it very seriously.”.
1575-u-s-senator-iran-has-been-killing-americans-for-more …
www.thetower.org/1575-u-s-senator-iran-has-been-killing–americans-for…
Jan 30, 2015 – Sen. Tom Cotton (R – Ark.) presented an overview of Iran’s record in targeting the United States and its citizens in an op-ed published today in …
“Death to America!” and the Iran Deal – The New Yorker
www.newyorker.com/news/news…/death-to-america-and-the-iran-deal
3 days ago – Robin Wright on the chant “Death to America!,” which enrages Americanlawmakers but may not mean so much to Iranians themselves.
Iran linked to deaths of 500 U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan
www.militarytimes.com/story/military/…/iran…deaths…/30131097/
Jul 15, 2015 – Scores of American personnel were killed or maimed by highly lethal bombs, known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, that Iran …
Sec. of State John Kerry Makes Big Admission to Congress …
www.theblaze.com/…/sec-of-state-john-kerry-makes-big-admission-to-co…
5 days ago – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry testified during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Tuesday that Iran “may” kill Americans and …
This post was forwarded to a long list of Russians this this preface in Russian which Google has translated.
Why is Obama empowering Iran?
Obama’s racial blind spot.
Another day of people straining to provide alternative explanations to evil.
If we look hard enough and contort ourselves violently enough, maybe we can find a reason that makes us feel better.
I wonder if they embraced such self-indulgent delusions in the concentration camps?
Why is Hitler doing this?
When he realize the error of his ways?
It must be an intrinsic part of the collective human psyche.
People cannot process and assimilate pure evil.
This is a wonderful site, but I hope that tomorrow will not bring more analysis of Obama’s motivations.
His motivations are crystal clear, and they always have been.