Iran out of Kirkuk
By Arash Nikzad
Iran opened a new front in its final attempt for regional domination in Iraq on Monday and at the beginning captured the oil fields of Iraq near the controversial city of Kirkuk and then the IRGC affiliated Iraqi notorious forces entered to the city with coordination by a part of Kurdish forces who collaborate with IRGC. Therefore, Iraqi Shia militias backed by the Tehran regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched an attack on Kirkuk, in the wake of last month’s Kurdish independence referendum.
Thousands of people began fleeing the city as Iraqi paramilitary forces and Shia fighters entered the majority-Kurdish city, which lies outside the area controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government but whose residents nevertheless participated in the September 25 referendum.
This attack, waged by the Iraqi government and IRGC affiliated Shia forces called, Hashd al-Shaabi and forces associated with the Headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards’ Quds force, is in retaliation against the willing of people of Kurdistan who have asked for freedom and independent,” . “in fact the invasion of Kirkuk is a revenge against the noble people of Kurdish region .
Let know who are the Hashd al-Shaabiit is a Shia front that includes powerful armed Islamist groups like the Badr Brigade which founded in Iran in mid-1980th by order of Khomeini, widely regarded as the Iraqi equivalent of Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
As has also been the similar case in the wars in Syria and Lebanon, top commanders of the IRGC have been spotted on the ground in northern Iraq. On Monday, an Iraqi government spokesman confirmed that Gen. Qassem Soleimani — who commands the IRGC’s elite Quds Force that focuses on foreign operations — was serving with Hashd al-Shaabi as a “military adviser! Now it is clear that “it is the Iranian Revolutionary Guards who can openly be seen among the Hashd al-Shaabi.”
Iran opened a new front in its final attempt for regional domination in Iraq on Monday and at the beginning captured the oil fields of Iraq near the controversial city of Kirkuk and then the IRGC affiliated Iraqi notorious forces entered to the city with coordination by a part of Kurdish forces who collaborate with IRGC. Therefore, Iraqi Shia militias backed by the Tehran regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched an attack on Kirkuk, in the wake of last month’s Kurdish independence referendum.
Thousands of people began fleeing the city as Iraqi paramilitary forces and Shia fighters entered the majority-Kurdish city, which lies outside the area controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government but whose residents nevertheless participated in the September 25 referendum.
This attack, waged by the Iraqi government and IRGC affiliated Shia forces called, Hashd al-Shaabi and forces associated with the Headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards’ Quds force, is in retaliation against the willing of people of Kurdistan who have asked for freedom and independent,” . “in fact the invasion of Kirkuk is a revenge against the noble people of Kurdish region .
Let know who are the Hashd al-Shaabiit is a Shia front that includes powerful armed Islamist groups like the Badr Brigade which founded in Iran in mid-1980th by order of Khomeini, widely regarded as the Iraqi equivalent of Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
As has also been the similar case in the wars in Syria and Lebanon, top commanders of the IRGC have been spotted on the ground in northern Iraq. On Monday, an Iraqi government spokesman confirmed that Gen. Qassem Soleimani — who commands the IRGC’s elite Quds Force that focuses on foreign operations — was serving with Hashd al-Shaabi as a “military adviser! Now it is clear that “it is the Iranian Revolutionary Guards who can openly be seen among the Hashd al-Shaabi.”
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