Iranian regime not ISIS, is main strategic threat: David Frum

[Tehrani]

Washington is making “too much of a priority out of the Islamic State” while the main strategic priority for the US is not the Islamic State but the Iranian regime, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush said on Tuesday.

Speaking about the crisis in Syria on BBC’s Newsnight, David Frum said that the militants, who currently control swathes of land across Iraq and Syria, are not the West’s most important strategic threat in the region but ‘that is Iran.’

Frum said “Our [America’s] focus on the Islamic State… has been leading us into a de facto partnership with Iran.”

This was "protecting the larger strategic threat at the expense of the lesser strategic threat," he said.

Meanwhile a number of regional experts and U.S. officials have warned that the United States should beware of the perils of collaborating with the Iranian regime in the fight against ISIS terror group.

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http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/iran-world/17927-iranian-regime-not-isis-is-main-strategic-threat-david-frum

[Tehrani]

Covert Iranian IRGC unit smuggles weapons across Middle East, Fox News reveals

A secretive Iranian military unit has been smuggling weapons to extremist groups in the Middle East and North Africa, Fox News has revealed.

Unit 190, a secret arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force, is made up of only about 24 people and operates out of a warehouse at Tehran's main airport.

The leader of the unit is 46-year-old Benham Shahariyari, who runs a network of front companies which skirt sanctions packing RPG's, night-vision equipment and long-range rockets in powdered milk, cement and spare vehicle parts.

Michael Eisenstadt, director of Military and Security Studies programs for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told Fox News: "Very often arms and explosives were placed in trucks underneath legal cargo in order to hide them."

When Turkey intercepted containers filled with 122mm mortar shells and explosives in 2007vdestined for Hezbollah via Syria in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1747, the bill of loading had Shahariyari's signature on it, Fox said.

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http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/terrorism-fundamentalism/17929-covert-iranian-irgc-unit-smuggles-weapons-across-middle-east-fox-news-reveals

[iwajah]

Dr war hawks zijn bang dat Obama toenadering gaat zoeken bij Iran ivm het ISIS gevaar