Iran is not an enemy of ISIS; they have a lot to gain from the turmoil that ISIS creates.
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I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.
The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States.
Iran is Iran. It has a regime that is destabilized in the region, that is spreading terror.
ISIS is a battle-hardened, highly trained organization that is well-funded. They're one of the strongest armies in the world for their size.
Iran is the base of an axis of evil which is a problem for all the world.
Iran is not a nation-state; it's a revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem.
These Sunni Arabs in places like al Anbar province in Iraq, where I served back in 2007, if they see Iran as the dominant power, a Shiite country, they're going to be much more likely to want to join ISIS.
Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.
Think of ISIS as a pathogen that preys on weak hosts in the Muslim world. In fact, there is something of a political law: The weaker a Muslim state, the stronger will be the presence of ISIS or like-minded groups.
Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.
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