Can the Iraqi government return the Abrams tank from Iran?
Can the Iraqi government return the Abrams tank from Iran?
Date Posted 03/08/2017 01:45 PM
A few months ago, one of the armed Iraqi factions sent the American-made Abrams tank, defensive and offensive, to Iran, which is preoccupied with the administration of US President Donald Trump. It is very dissatisfied with this dispatch because it felt that there was a military insult to it. On the Iraqi government to recover, and this send the Iraqi government in a very embarrassing position with the US administration and the International Alliance. He also put the US administration in a critical position in front of American public opinion.
In order to retrieve the Abrams, one of the most powerful tanks in the world, used in the Second Gulf War, the war in Afghanistan, the 2003 Iraq war and the military intervention in Yemen. According to special information obtained by the Center for Links and Strategic Studies, Gen. Joseph Francis Dunford, and the US ambassador with Iraqi Defense Minister Irfan al-Hayali and the first team chief of staff of the Iraqi army Osman al-Ghanmi. He informed them of the necessity of the Iraqi government’s recovery of the American tank from Iran, Telling him all the information about the tank order as the platoon in the crowd that he sent to Iran, and supplied them with the number of the tank and pictures. He also told them that if the Iraqi government could not retrieve the tank, it would have a negative impact on US military aid and other aid to Iraq. Iraqi Defense Minister Irfan al-Hayali and the head of the Iraqi army’s chief of staff, Osman al-Ghanmi, the chief of staff of the US army, First Lieutenant Joseph Francis Dunford, promised to return the tank as soon as possible.
That sending the Abrams tank to Iran is not the first of its kind, especially if we know that the wreckage of a US aircraft and tens of American “Hummers” and various American weapons arrived in Iran. In addition, Iraq has become a major market for weapons trade, such as the market of “Meredi” in Baghdad, but in Mosul and after the organization of the terrorist organization, Kfri and Klar in the area of Hamdania also became a market for the sale of weapons. As sold in the Iraqi arms markets all kinds of weapons of America, Western and Eastern, and most of these weapons purchased by the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq, as well as the Iraqi citizens in all provinces of Iraq to purchase them, and it is noteworthy here that these weapons and military equipment sold at a quarter of its real price. For example, the Hummer car is sold in the Iraqi arms market for 30 thousand US dollars while the real price range between 280 thousand dollars to 300 thousand dollars.
There is no doubt that the request of the US administration, which reaches the level of insistence of the Iraqi government to retrieve the Abrams tank, sets its will in front of a real test between the United States of America, the official sponsor of the Iraqi political system in the post-2003, which contributed through its military and intelligence support To the Iraqi government in defeating the organization of Daed in Mosul and various Iraqi provinces, and Iran, which has the influence of multiple forms, and the question arises in this context? Can the Iraqi government return Abrams’ tank from Iran?
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