Thread: Iran may be biggest threat to Iraq: U.S. general
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Old 03-08-2008, 01:02 PM
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Default Not a threat? You must be kidding...
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Originally Posted by superbadbrutha View Post
All that said Iran was not a threat to Iraq until we invaded Iraq and put in the shambles it is in today.
Not so. Iran and Iraq called a truce a few years before Iraq invaded Kuwait. Iran had been in an 8 year war with Saddam's Iraq and while they had leftover weapons supplied by the U.S. from the previous Shah regime, Saddam had LOTS more firepower recently purchased from Russia, Germany, France, and the U.S. Most notably he used nerve gas in that war against the Iranians, so the Iranians pretty much have an axe to grind with Iraq.

As you might have noticed in recent years, Iran has been trying to get a nuclear program going. Now that Saddam is out of the picture, they know that they can go into Iran much easier now with the added trump card of possession of a nuclear device. (Which is either in their hands now, or getting closer by the day)

They are now the most powerful nation in their region. There's not much that can stop them from expanding, except for the U.S., Great Britain, Canada, the EU, NATO, etc...
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