Iran Orders Elite Troops: Lay Off U.S. Forces in Iraq

[babylonsister]

Iran Orders Elite Troops: Lay Off U.S. Forces in Iraq
The last time Iranian and American forces were in Iraq, the two sides quietly fought each other. Now Iran’s Quds Force officers in Iraq are purposely leaving the Americans alone.


Pay no attention to the Shi'ite militias threatening to kill U.S. troops in Iraq. The elite Iranian forces backing those militias have been ordered not to attack the Americans.

That’s the conclusion of the latest U.S. intelligence assessment for Iraq. And it represents a stunning turnaround for Iran’s Quds Force, once considered America’s most dangerous foe in the region.

U.S. intelligence officials tell The Daily Beast that the apparent Iranian decision not to target American troops inside Iraq reflects Iran’s desire to strike a nuclear bargain with the United States and the rest of the international community before the current negotiations expire at the end of November.

“They are not going after Americans,” one senior U.S. intelligence official told The Daily Beast familiar with the recent assessments. “They want the nuclear talks to succeed and an incident between our guys and their guys would not be good for those talks.”

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/06/iran-orders-elite-troops-lay-off-u-s-troops-in-iraq.html

[Fred Sanders]

1. What does this all even mean? Lay off what? Leave them alone, from what? So "last time they

quietly fought each other?" Who wrote this? It is a lot of gibberish it seems.