Von allen Interventionisten hat der Iran den größten und verlustreichsten Einsatz erbracht. Schon aus Eigeninteresse Staaten wie den Irak oder Syrien nicht an den IS zu verlieren. In direkter Nachbarschaft. Die Einsätze waren zudem auf Wunsch Iraks und Syriens.
Scott Ritter, ein ehemaliger Marine und Kenner der Region, ist nicht in Verdacht ein Alternativer oder Liberaler zu sein. Er erwarb sich den Ruf "Darth Vader" zu sein, als er die Aufgabe hatte im Irak nach ABC-Waffen zu suchen. Durch sein robustes, einschüchterndes Auftreten gegenüber irakischen Sicherheitskräften. Er schreibt im American Conservative.
Phase I war für den Iran den völligen Zusammenbruch Iraks (inklusive der KRG: Iran Was First to Supply Iraq’s Kurds With Weapons to Battle the Islamic State https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/nem ... amic-state) und Syriens vor den unerhört schnellen Vorstössen des IS zu verhindern.
Niemand sonst war da.“We asked for weapons and Iran was the first country to provide us with weapons and ammunition,” said Kurdish President Massoud Barzani in a press conference. That Iran apparently got weapons to the Kurds more quickly than the U.S. may be because of Tehran’s strategic interests in arresting the march of ISIS.
“Iran knows that if they don’t fight ISIS in Iraq today, they will have to fight them in Iran tomorrow,” said Hiwa Osman, an analyst and writer based in Erbil. The expansionist Sunni militants have clawed their way across Syria and Iraq, coming within 20 miles of the Iranian border.
Indeed, Tehran claimed to have had a direct hand in training Kurdish peshmerga. “When ISIS attacked Iraqi Kurdistan and the Kurdish officials requested help from Iran, The Islamic Republic of Iran not only gave them guidance, but also organized and prepared their forces,” Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazl told Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency.
http://time.com/3196580/iran-kurds-isis-erbil-iraq/
Phase II war die Rückeroberung. Dazu wurde die potente irakische PMF eingesetzt, auch in Syrien. Im Falle Syriens kamen die Hebzollah u.a. dazu. Ebenso russische Luftunterstützung. Im Irak war es die PMF, die die den völligen Zusammenbruch aufhielten und - sagen wir mal - die irakischen Streitkräfte "den Rücken stärkten" und liebevoll vorwärts drückten. Gegen den IS. Später operierten sie grenzüberschreitend gegen den IS in Syrien.
Iran Deserves Credit for the Ruin of ISIS
The United States expended considerable effort, both military and political, in a campaign to defeat the terror group in Iraq and, to a lesser extent, Syria.
But there is also no doubt that the bulk of the effort came from Iran, not the United States. Without Iranian involvement, ISIS would still have a formidable presence in both Iraq and Syria.
Von manchen Medien wird gerne die Mär verbreitet das irakische Sicherheitskräfte hinter den Zusammenbruch des IS im Irak stehen würden. Wahr ist, das diese fast selbst zusammenbrachen und der IS fast bis Bagdad vorstossen konnten. Sie brauchten Hilfe. Die kam im Form der PMF.ISIS was born out of the ashes of the American invasion of Iraq
When ISIS advanced on the Iraqi cities of Ramadi and Fallujah, the American-trained and -equipped Iraqi army was unable to halt its advance. Soon the major city of Mosul fell to ISIS, and its forces pushed down the Tigris River valley to the outskirts of Baghdad.
The story of Iraq’s struggle to form a viable resistance to ISIS in the aftermath of the fall of Mosul is little known, and even less appreciated, by the United States. The formation of so-called “Popular Mobilization Forces,” or PMF—organized at the behest of Iraq’s senior Shia leadership, and trained, equipped, and led by Iran—was the single most important factor behind the halting of ISIS’s drive on Baghdad and its eventual eviction from Iraqi territory.
Syrien.Western media have paid a disproportionate amount of attention to the actions of a select few American-trained Iraqi security forces, which, with ample support from U.S. airpower and advisors, helped end fighting in and around Mosul. All the while, they’ve ignored that the lion’s share of the fighting was done by the Iranian-directed PMF. This fact was not lost on the Iraqi people, many of whom (though not many of the Sunnis) hold the PMF in the highest regard. This sentiment has propelled many of the senior leadership of the PMF into political prominence in Baghdad.
For Iran, the ISIS phenomenon is not limited to Iraq. It is seen as part and parcel of a concerted effort undertaken by the United States, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf Arab nations to overthrow Assad in Syria, diminish the power and influence of Hezbollah in Lebanon, and roll back Iranian influence in both Syria and Iraq. ISIS’s geographic presence in Syria, concentrated as it was in the central and northeastern deserts, made it a secondary target compared to the al-Qaeda affiliates operating in and around Aleppo and Damascus.
ISIS in Syria lingers on, despite the fact that U.S. military power could ensure its almost immediate elimination. The reason for the stay of execution is not entirely clear, but it could well be that the U.S. sees ISIS as a useful foil against Iran.
Irgendein Bündnis aus der Luft mit Flugzeugen aus den USA und den Emiraten haben weder den drohenden Zusammenbruch aufgehalten, die waren da noch lange nicht da, noch die Gebiete auf dem Boden anschließend zurückerobert. Das waren die PMF, Peschmerga, Hezbollah, YPG und diverse verbündete schiitische und christliche Milizen. Und "natürlich" die irakische und syrische Armee. Mit Unterstützung Irans, später mit Russlands dazu.Rather than relying on ISIS as a foil to blunt Iranian influence in Syria and terrorize its citizenry at home, the Trump administration should recognize the positive role that Iran has played in defeating ISIS. It should build upon that recognition to craft a wider regional peace process that both recognizes the realities inherent in Syria today and reduces the tensions that prompt Iran to lean forward in such an aggressive manner. Unfortunately, such thinking seems beyond the capabilities of Mike Pompeo and John Bolton. As such, America will continue to pursue poorly thought out policies with no chance of success without any thought to either cost or consequence.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com ... n-of-isis/