The Daily Beast: The United States officially supports Iran against Daash
The Daily Beast: The United States officially supports Iran against Daash
Posted 26/03/2015 10:02 AM
Alliance launched the US-led air strikes in support of the Iranian and Iraqi forces in the city of Tikrit, according to a US official told the Daily Beast. These forces have already begun trying to restore Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Islamic state without the US military reported. But, when I stopped that campaign, the troops returned to ask for support for the US Air Force.
The two US officials said the Daily Beast that the United States was awaiting a formal request from the Iraqi government to implement Aldharabat. He said the two officials he is now, and after that America has received such a request, may begin these attacks immediately. He pointed to one of the officials that “the coalition has shown the ability to respond quickly to conditions on the ground.”
While the deterioration of the situation in Tikrit for the Iraqi forces, the US military quietly setting the groundwork for the expansion of the air strikes of the coalition forces to this city in central Iraq. Where it was transferred equipment, and the army began drafting military plans to strike targets Daash there.
On Wednesday, a reporter for The Associated Press in Tikrit reported hearing voices warplanes overhead and multiple explosions. In an interview with Reuters news agency, published in early Wednesday, Iraqi President, Fuad Masum, said the air strikes will begin soon. He added: “The Iraqi government and people of the region wanted an active contribution of the international coalition.”
The US air raids in Tikrit, an important shift in the war against Daash. As the Iraqi officials did not consult with their American peers before they launch an attack on Tikrit on March 1, along with the Iranian generals and tanks. The US military has insisted for a long time that there would be closely coordinated with the Iranians, even with both sides fighting a common enemy in Iraq, is Daash.
The campaign kicked off on Tikrit strongly than 20 thousand of the Shiite militia fighters, and 3 of thousands of Iraqi forces, and a squadron of troops, tanks and weapons and missile strikes Iran. In the early days of the campaign, Gen. Qassem Suleiman, commander of the Iranian Quds Force was, present on the ground in Tikrit.
While the troops made their way quickly to Tikrit in those opening moments of the battle, there were hopes that Iraq will get the biggest win against Daash within days. Iraqi officials have boasted that they were the city get back quickly surprising, although it is the largest stronghold of Daash in Salahuddin province in Iraq. But, last week, the campaign stopped after Iraqi troops and militia faced a city full of explosives. In addition, the bridge was destroyed president of performers to the city over the Tigris River, which was held this movement of Iraqi forces in Tikrit.
With the rising death toll among Iraqi troops and militias, more politicians suggested that Iraq needs US help. On Saturday, after receiving a formal request from the Iraqi government, the United States and coalition forces began supplying the Iraqi army tapes video, information and other intelligence collected by aerial surveillance, as the Wall Street Journal reported, which was confirmed by Col. Steven Warren, a spokesman for the Pentagon, on wednesday.
The United States held the 5314 raid against targets Daash in Iraq and Syria, until March 15, according to the statistics of the US Department of Defense. US officials for the Daily Beast, and said that the heaviest resistance to the expansion of US intervention did not come from the Obama administration, but some Shiite militia leaders who said they are able to restore the city without US help. In an interview with Reuters news agency, admitted infallible this friction, but he said: “The Iraqi government alone decide this, not any other forces,” a reference to the Shiite militias.
He was greeted by the decision to expand the US air war to Tikrit mixed feelings within the Ministry of Defence. While some fear the implications of a failed rescue effort led by Iran, others welcomed the matter as an opportunity to Iraq and Iran knows it can not win the war against Daash without the help of the United States. The defense official said the Daily Beast: “If this will force the Iranians to admit defeat, this will be a satisfactory result.”
Perhaps the only similar campaign for the air campaign to Tikrit be the Iraqi attack on the city, located in northern Iraq, Amerli. Where he broke the Iraqi forces, and Kurdish peshmerga forces and Shiite militias, Daash siege of that city last fall, with the help of US air strikes.
In all cases, the request of the US Air Force to the end of hopes that the ground force alone can defeat Daash in Tikrit indicates. This may be the beginning of a very different stage of the war against Daash.
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