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A strong message from the director of US intelligence to Qassim Soleimani
 

 

 
 

Date Posted       03/12/2017 10:37 AM

 

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CIA director Mike Pompeo has sent a letter to Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Qassim Soleimani and Iranian leaders to express concern about Iran's increasingly threatening behavior in Iraq.

Pompio said at a seminar at the annual Reagan Defense Forum in southern California that he had sent the letter, after a senior Iranian military commander indicated that the troops under his command might attack US forces in Iraq and gave no date.

"The message is that the United States will hold military leaders and Iran responsible for any attacks on US interests in Iraq by the forces under their control," Pompeo said.

Soleimani, who is in charge of the external operations of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, refused to open the message, Pompeo said.

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CIA director Mike Pompeo has warned Iran's Revolutionary Guards and commanders in Tehran not to attack US forces in Iraq or to take any action threatening the troops, the Associated Press of America reported Friday. The US intelligence warning came in a letter sent by Pompeo to the commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Qassem Soleimani, and revealed on Saturday during a seminar at the defense forum of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Institute.

During the letter, Pompeo threatened the military officials in Iran to hold them responsible for any attacks on US interests in Iraq by the forces under their control, explaining that he resorted to this step after a senior Iranian military commander, who did not mention him, talked about the possibility of forces under his command to attack US forces In Iraq, without specifying a date, adding: "Sulaimani refused to open the message, pointing to Washington's desire to deliver a clear message as the sun to Sulaimani and the Iranian leadership.

"When the US intelligence chief sent a message to General Sulaimani through one of his employees in the region, Soleimani replied that he had not received or read any message," said Mohammad Mohammadi Kalbakani, head of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's office. , And referred to the declaration of Soleimani that he does not have what he says to these people, in reference to US intelligence officials, according to the agency "Anatolia" Turkish news.

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"CIA" reveal the content of the message that Sulaimani refused to receive

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The CIA revealed that it had sent a message to Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Iranian leaders to express concern about Tehran's behavior, which threatens US forces in Iraq.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo said at a seminar at the annual Reagan Defense Forum in southern California on Saturday that he had sent the message after a senior Iranian military commander said troops under his command might attack US forces in Iraq. He did not give a specific date. 

"What we were talking about in this letter is that we will hold him and Iran responsible for any attacks on US interests in Iraq by the forces under their control," Pompeo said. 
"We want to make sure that he and the leadership in Iran understand this in a crystal clear way." 

Bombayo, who took over the CIA in January, said Suleimani, who is in charge of the external operations of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, refused to open the message. 

Mohammed Kalbakani, head of the office of the Supreme Leader of the Iranian Revolution, said that Major General Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards, refused to receive a letter from the director of the CIA during the battles of Albu Kamal in Syria.

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Details of the letter "strongly" from the director of US intelligence to Sulaimani !!

03-12-2017 02:15 PM
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CIA director Mike Pompeo said he had sent a letter to Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Qassim Soleimani and Iranian leaders to express concern about Iran's increasingly dangerous behavior in Iraq.

 
Pompio said at a seminar at the annual Reagan Defense Forum in southern California that he had sent the letter, after a senior Iranian military commander indicated that the troops under his command might attack US forces in Iraq and gave no date.

 
"The message is that the United States will hold military leaders and Iran responsible for any attacks on US interests in Iraq by the forces under their control," Pompeo said.


Soleimani, who is in charge of the external operations of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, refused to open the message, Pompeo said.

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(The threat of Iran to America .. In conjunction with the call against corruption) .. (Ending corruption in Iraq .. End of Iran)

04-12-2017 06:38 PM
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whenever the tone of the call to fight corruption in the region of Iraq and bring international experts .. In this area .. With calls (to an international tribunal) .. To try and arrest the corrupt .. We find the escalation of the threat of Iran and its militias against US forces in Iraq .. "We are also suspicious of a suspicious Iranian as it happened (Sulaymani refused to receive a US letter to remind us that Tareq Aziz did not receive Bush's message, which Baker handed over to the Geneva meeting before the Gulf War of 1991).

As well as find a reluctance to fight corruption to mobilize the Iranian people in Iraq (as happened from the decline of referral of Maliki and Nujaifi Vice President of the Republic of the courts of law on charges of graft) .. The newspaper published the morning and retreated .. He said Shabandar (former deputy Izzat Shabandar, Sunday, Denying the subject published today on the referral of Vice-President of the Republic to the judiciary was a 'clear retreat' and not 'a mistake typewritten', hoping that this will not cause a major imbalance in the fight against corruption.

The political blocs that ruled after 2003 are mostly parties, blocs, organizations and organizations loyal to Iran such as the Supreme Council and Badr (established in Iran in the 80s), virtue, advocacy and the Liberal bloc. .. And the saddles etc .. And these have armed militias .. Under the title of the crowd .. Close to Iran .. Almtgvl with them loyalists loyal to Iran (for the faction) .. Kalnjba and Hezbollah Brigades and brigades of martyrs, etc. And they represent (the arms of Iran in Iraq) .. They do not hide that ..

We do not forget that Ali Khamenei, the Iranian leader and the commander-in-chief of the Iranian armed forces, according to the Iranian constitution, does not find it in any Friday sermon or any statement or statement that asks the governments and influential parties in Iraq that are loyal to Iran to stop corruption. "Iran has used Iraq's channels of corruption, particularly the time of (Nuri al-Maliki) ... (to ease the economic sanctions for years from Iran), as well as the allocation of amounts To support regional parties and systems loyal to them such as Hezbollah and Lebanon R Assad .. This is no secret to anyone .., prompting al-Sistani (Najaf) blocked the door to all political forces ..

Iran believes that it is a second option to Iran because it feels that the Islamic parties that are loyal to it, such as the Majlis, Dawa, and others, are being criticized by the Arab Shiite street for pointing their finger at corruption. And failure and complicity .. Iran believes in putting the list of the crowd that they will not only represent Iran in the Iraqi parliament, but representatives of the Revolutionary Guard themselves (representatives of Sulaimani) .. either (the call and the Council and Virtue .. etc.) representatives of the Tehran regime, the mandate of the jurist .... Iran feels that all That will threaten if it has been eradicated (corrupt and vanquished They are military) and if Article 158 is applied treachery against the political forces that profess loyalty to the leader of a foreign country and a foreign regime .. Especially as these militias are the clique of the arms of political parties corrupt .. And loyal to Nuri al-Maliki involved in corruption ..

We also mention here that even colonialism built countries and technology transfer to the countries that established it in the third world, and built regular armies and security institutions, except Iran, whose system is spread everywhere by spreading its octopus arms from its militias and corrupt parties and armed organizations. And this is what the Iranian president did not hide by saying that any decision of fate from Baghdad to Rabat can only be achieved through Tehran, with all its arrogance, arrogance and provocation by Iran to dozens of peoples and nations. Which requires restraining Iran and hit it and overthrow its arrogant regime.

As we have confirmed years ago and to this day .. that the elimination of Iran's influence is taking steps, but with international support through these points:
(1: fight corruption in Iraq, an international court to try corrupt officials, specialized international institutions to follow up the funds of Iraq since 2003 and recover) : Work on the rise of the industrial, agricultural and service sectors and electricity in Iraq .. This provides job opportunities for millions of unemployed in Iraq .. thus weakening the ability of Sulaimani to recruit and breeding militias, taking advantage of poverty and unemployment from the work suffered by young people ..)
(3) the contracts with international companies approved in America, Europe, Japan and Germany exclusively, to build the reconstruction of Iraq, and the reason because corruption one of its biggest channels was contracts with Iranian, Egyptian, Chinese, Turkish, Jordanian, Syrian and similar). (4) the construction of three US bases in Iraq, the first of the Sunni triangle to counter Sunni extremism, and the second in Kurdistan to counter the Kurdish rush of independence and what might lead to an increase in the influence of hostile countries such as Iran by invading Kirkuk by Sulaimani and the third in central and southern Iran. : The application of the localization as soon as possible, the central and southern region of the FAO to Samarra with the Badia Karbala and Nukhaib, and the province of Western, and the Kurdistan region, so as not to limit the listener regions to the component without the other) .. 

Summary .. Imagine Iraq without corruption:
1. Iraq without the Supreme Council, the Da'wa, the Free and Virtue Bloc, the Muslim Brotherhood, etc., ie, Iraq without representatives of Iran.

 
2. Iraq, whose people are riding Cadillac cars and other modern American, Japanese and German cars, rather than the poor Iranian Saipa.


3. A drug-free Iraq smuggled from Iran, smuggled weapons from its borders.


4. Iraq has an industry, agriculture, electricity and services that enrich it from being under Iran's patronage, culturally, industrially and serviced by the poor goods exported by Iran today.


5. Iraq has three federal provinces, which are self-governing components away from Iranian tutelage.


6. Iraq maintains relations with the world's most advanced countries, technology and industry in America, Japan, Germany and Western Europe .. bringing its technologies and companies instead of Iranian corruption companies.


7. Iraq is far from the axes of regional and international conflicts that Iran has taken for years.


8. Iraq builds its infrastructure in the hands of the best developed international companies in America, America and Japan .. away from the dirty Iranian tutelage that planted the underdevelopment in Iraq.


9. Iraq is far from the "roar of turbans" .. And the Iraq of his dignity does not make his sons accept the shoes and clothes of Iranians coming to Karbala religious events that Geert (to confuse the Shiites in Iraq kissing the shoes of the Iranians) with a demonstration is not found in Iran itself .. They are all part of a dirty Iranian policy to break The eyes of the Iraqis, especially the Arab Shiites.


We all remember the recognition of al-Maliki, who has accused Syria of supporting terrorism since 2003, training and facilitating its entry into Iraq to carry out tens of thousands of terrorist operations. We have not found any severing relations with Syria because Bashar is an ally of Iran, To provide Iran and Syria with weapons and weapons and weapons in Iraq by the recognition of Al-Khafaji, the leader of Melissa Abu Fadl al-Abbas, the Iranian loyalty .. Do not forget the support of Hezbollah Lebanon Harith al-Dari, who described al Qaeda from which, and considered terrorism in Iraq resistance for years.


11. Iraq without militias and the body of the crowd .. And the corruption of their salaries .. And the corruption of the parties they represent ... And betrayal of their loyalty to a foreign leader and foreign system .. As they are aware of this ..

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(The threat of Iran to America .. In conjunction with the call against corruption) .. (Ending corruption in Iraq .. End of Iran)

04-12-2017 06:38 PM
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Baghdad News -

 

Taji Kazem's carpet 

whenever the tone of the call to fight corruption in the region of Iraq and bring international experts .. In this area .. With calls (to an international tribunal) .. To try and arrest the corrupt .. We find the escalation of the threat of Iran and its militias against US forces in Iraq .. "We are also suspicious of a suspicious Iranian as it happened (Sulaymani refused to receive a US letter to remind us that Tareq Aziz did not receive Bush's message, which Baker handed over to the Geneva meeting before the Gulf War of 1991).

As well as find a reluctance to fight corruption to mobilize the Iranian people in Iraq (as happened from the decline of referral of Maliki and Nujaifi Vice President of the Republic of the courts of law on charges of graft) .. The newspaper published the morning and retreated .. He said Shabandar (former deputy Izzat Shabandar, Sunday, Denying the subject published today on the referral of Vice-President of the Republic to the judiciary was a 'clear retreat' and not 'a mistake typewritten', hoping that this will not cause a major imbalance in the fight against corruption.

The political blocs that ruled after 2003 are mostly parties, blocs, organizations and organizations loyal to Iran such as the Supreme Council and Badr (established in Iran in the 80s), virtue, advocacy and the Liberal bloc. .. And the saddles etc .. And these have armed militias .. Under the title of the crowd .. Close to Iran .. Almtgvl with them loyalists loyal to Iran (for the faction) .. Kalnjba and Hezbollah Brigades and brigades of martyrs, etc. And they represent (the arms of Iran in Iraq) .. They do not hide that ..

We do not forget that Ali Khamenei, the Iranian leader and the commander-in-chief of the Iranian armed forces, according to the Iranian constitution, does not find it in any Friday sermon or any statement or statement that asks the governments and influential parties in Iraq that are loyal to Iran to stop corruption. "Iran has used Iraq's channels of corruption, particularly the time of (Nuri al-Maliki) ... (to ease the economic sanctions for years from Iran), as well as the allocation of amounts To support system" rel="">support regional parties and systems loyal to them such as Hezbollah and Lebanon R Assad .. This is no secret to anyone .., prompting al-Sistani (Najaf) blocked the door to all political forces ..

Iran believes that it is a second option to Iran because it feels that the Islamic parties that are loyal to it, such as the Majlis, Dawa, and others, are being criticized by the Arab Shiite street for pointing their finger at corruption. And failure and complicity .. Iran believes in putting the list of the crowd that they will not only represent Iran in the Iraqi parliament, but representatives of the Revolutionary Guard themselves (representatives of Sulaimani) .. either (the call and the Council and Virtue .. etc.) representatives of the Tehran regime, the mandate of the jurist .... Iran feels that all That will threaten if it has been eradicated (corrupt and vanquished They are military) and if Article 158 is applied treachery against the political forces that profess loyalty to the leader of a foreign country and a foreign regime .. Especially as these militias are the clique of the arms of political parties corrupt .. And loyal to Nuri al-Maliki involved in corruption ..

We also mention here that even colonialism built countries and technology transfer to the countries that established it in the third world, and built regular armies and security institutions, except Iran, whose system is spread everywhere by spreading its octopus arms from its militias and corrupt parties and armed organizations. And this is what the Iranian president did not hide by saying that any decision of fate from Baghdad to Rabat can only be achieved through Tehran, with all its arrogance, arrogance and provocation by Iran to dozens of peoples and nations. Which requires restraining Iran and hit it and overthrow its arrogant regime.

As we have confirmed years ago and to this day .. that the elimination of Iran's influence is taking steps, but with international support system" rel="">support through these points:
(1: fight corruption in Iraq, an international court to try corrupt officials, specialized international institutions to follow up the funds of Iraq since 2003 and recover) : Work on the rise of the industrial, agricultural and service sectors and electricity in Iraq .. This provides job opportunities for millions of unemployed in Iraq .. thus weakening the ability of Sulaimani to recruit and breeding militias, taking advantage of poverty and unemployment from the work suffered by young people ..)
(3) the contracts with international companies approved in America, Europe, Japan and Germany exclusively, to build the reconstruction of Iraq, and the reason because corruption one of its biggest channels was contracts with Iranian, Egyptian, Chinese, Turkish, Jordanian, Syrian and similar). (4) the construction of three US bases in Iraq, the first of the Sunni triangle to counter Sunni extremism, and the second in Kurdistan to counter the Kurdish rush of independence and what might lead to an increase in the influence of hostile countries such as Iran by invading Kirkuk by Sulaimani and the third in central and southern Iran. : The application of the localization as soon as possible, the central and southern region of the FAO to Samarra with the Badia Karbala and Nukhaib, and the province of Western, and the Kurdistan region, so as not to limit the listener regions to the component without the other) .. 

Summary .. Imagine Iraq without corruption:
1. Iraq without the Supreme Council, the Da'wa, the Free and Virtue Bloc, the Muslim Brotherhood, etc., ie, Iraq without representatives of Iran.

 
2. Iraq, whose people are riding Cadillac cars and other modern American, Japanese and German cars, rather than the poor Iranian Saipa.


3. A drug-free Iraq smuggled from Iran, smuggled weapons from its borders.


4. Iraq has an industry, agriculture, electricity and services that enrich it from being under Iran's patronage, culturally, industrially and serviced by the poor goods exported by Iran today.


5. Iraq has three federal provinces, which are self-governing components away from Iranian tutelage.


6. Iraq maintains relations with the world's most advanced countries, technology and industry in America, Japan, Germany and Western Europe .. bringing its technologies and companies instead of Iranian corruption companies.


7. Iraq is far from the axes of regional and international conflicts that Iran has taken for years.


8. Iraq builds its infrastructure in the hands of the best developed international companies in America, America and Japan .. away from the dirty Iranian tutelage that planted the underdevelopment in Iraq.


9. Iraq is far from the "roar of turbans" .. And the Iraq of his dignity does not make his sons accept the shoes and clothes of Iranians coming to Karbala religious events that Geert (to confuse the Shiites in Iraq kissing the shoes of the Iranians) with a demonstration is not found in Iran itself .. They are all part of a dirty Iranian policy to break The eyes of the Iraqis, especially the Arab Shiites.


We all remember the recognition of al-Maliki, who has accused Syria of supporting terrorism since 2003, training and facilitating its entry into Iraq to carry out tens of thousands of terrorist operations. We have not found any severing relations with Syria because Bashar is an ally of Iran, To provide Iran and Syria with weapons and weapons and weapons in Iraq by the recognition of Al-Khafaji, the leader of Melissa Abu Fadl al-Abbas, the Iranian loyalty .. Do not forget the support system" rel="">support of Hezbollah Lebanon Harith al-Dari, who described al Qaeda from which, and considered terrorism in Iraq resistance for years.


11. Iraq without militias and the body of the crowd .. And the corruption of their salaries .. And the corruption of the parties they represent ... And betrayal of their loyalty to a foreign leader and foreign system .. As they are aware of this ..

 

That's what i said all along... if we want to see chances to any RV, all Iran puppets must be removed from power due to corruption. And Mr. Donald Trump must do something about it to prevent ISIS happened again in Iraq.

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Talk and letters, why would they care what we say they have been ignoring us for the past 10 years and while we take no action they gain ground in every direction

On 12/3/2017 at 3:42 PM, yota691 said:

Soleimani, who is in charge of the external operations of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, refused to open the message, Pompeo said.

 

So maybe we should remind this guy of our special delivery system you know the one shaped like a crosshair aiming down on his head.

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3 minutes ago, KDuesing said:

Talk and letters, why would they care what we say they have been ignoring us for the past 10 years and while we take no action they gain ground in every direction

 

So maybe we should remind this guy of our special delivery system you know the one shaped like a crosshair aiming down on his head.

 

the front line is Iraq, get Iran out of Iraq first, let us cash in so we can prepare then? or worst like you want?

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38 minutes ago, Donziman said:

Just what everyone needs,another war in iraq. I forget  would this be 

number three or Four. The first was about 1990 and it will soon be 2020

only a mear 30 years of this crap. Lol

 

Don't forget the 8 year Iraq/Iran War in the 80's . . . Saddam's BIG power play to be Master of the M.E. - A Catastrophic Failure for Saddam. These folks just can't get enough of Killing each other.

 

It appears to be the National Pastime of M.E. countries. They need to take up Knitting or Gardening or even Golf. Just stop bleeding your countries white.

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Khatib Juma Tehran confirms Soleimani's position on the CIA's message on the attack on US forces in Iraq

Khatib Juma Tehran confirms Soleimani's position on the CIA's message on attacking US forces in Iraq

 

 

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The head of the Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Qassem Soleimani, has refused to receive a message from the CIA about its warning against attacking US troops in Iraq, Khatib said Friday.

 

"The firm response by Major General Qassim Soleimani to the letter of the head of the CIA was very dignified," Khatami said in a Friday sermon.

 

"General Sulaimani refused to accept this letter and returned it to its owner," Khatib said.

 

CIA Director Mike Pompeo said at a seminar at the annual Reagan Defense Forum in southern California on Saturday that he had sent the letter after a senior Iranian military commander said troops under his command might attack US forces in Iraq. . He did not give a specific date.

 

"What we are talking about in this letter is that we will hold him and Iran responsible for any attacks on US interests in Iraq by the forces under their control," Pompeo said. "We want to make sure that the leadership in Iran understands this in a crystal clear way."

 

Bombayo, who took over the CIA in January, said Suleimani, who is in charge of the external operations of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, refused to open the message.

 

Mohammed Kalbakani, head of the office of the Supreme Leader of the Iranian Revolution, said that Maj. Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards, refused to receive a letter from the director of the CIA during the battles of al-Bu Kamal in Syria.

 

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8 minutes ago, gregp said:

Nuke

 

Although, Jesus wants us to save. 

 

SO!!

 

God old bless our troops. 

 

God bless our military leaders. 

 

God bless President Donald Trump.  

 

God bless our corrupt government. 

 

May God purify our corrupt government through President Donald Trump.

 

Open our eyes to corruption. 

 

God please cleanse our corrupt media in the USA. 🇺🇸 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Although, Jesus wants us to save. 

 

SO!!

 

God old bless our troops. 

 

God bless our military leaders. 

 

God bless President Donald Trump.  

 

God bless our corrupt government. 

 

May God purify our corrupt government through President Donald Trump.

 

Open our eyes to corruption. 

 

God please cleanse our corrupt media in the USA. 🇺🇸 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blessing means changing.  

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  • yota691 changed the title to Discovery of the mystery of "America's message" to Qasim Soleimani and the secret of the survival of its forces in Syria

discovery of the mystery of "America's message" to Qasim Soleimani and the secret of the survival of its forces in Syria

Revealing the mystery of "America's message" to Qasem Soleimani and the mystery of the survival of its forces in Syria

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(Reuters) - Herbert Raymond McMaster, US President Donald Trump's national security adviser, is to present a political speech on Syria early next year 2018, defining the new administration's strategy, according to the Wall Street Journal.

According to informed sources, US officials are seeking to find a strategy to counter what they call Iran's remarkable military expansion across the region, which is a growing concern in Washington, Tel Aviv and Riyadh.

A senior official said the administration would not allow Iran and its proxies to establish a military presence in Syria that threatens America or its allies in the region.

Jim Matisse, the US secretary of defense, said that the US forces, now more than 2,000, would remain in Syria for the foreseeable future to ensure that a "foothold" would not be re-established, or turned into a dangerous new threat.

But US officials familiar with the ongoing discussions said they were at the forefront of new efforts to prevent Iran from strengthening its military presence in Syria or building a safe route in the country that would allow Tehran to transfer advanced weapons to its allies on the Israeli border.

"There should be no political influence without a US military force on Syrian soil," said Mark Dubowitz, chief executive of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tank with close ties to Trump's administration. .

According to some estimates, there are currently 125,000 Iranian troops in Syria. Turning the focus from "urging" Iran to face a large number of challenges, including fears of a deadly reaction from Iran aimed at US forces in the region.

According to the newspaper, this possibility is a source of great concern to US military officials. To address this concern, the head of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, sent a secret warning last month to General Qassim Soleimani, commander of the "Corps of Jerusalem" Iran.

Although the Iranian state media said Soleimani refused to open the message, Pompeo said it contained a warning from the United States that the administration "will hold him and Iran responsible for any attacks by the forces under their control of US interests in Iraq."

General McMaster said in recent days that the United States was formulating ways to contain the threat in Syria when he said at a public forum earlier this month: "What we are facing is the possibility of a proxy army on Israel's borders, Mentioned.

US and Israeli officials are deeply concerned about intelligence that Iran is building a military facility in northwestern Syria to make long-range missiles. Israel has carried out more than 100 air strikes in Syria, most of which targeted what it described as convoys transporting weapons to Hezbollah fighters.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced after the last air strike in early December that his country "will not allow a system of determination to annihilate the Jewish state by consolidating its military presence in Syria."

Israeli Minister of Intelligence and Transportation Yisrael Katz said that "

The minister stressed that Israel will act militarily as it does in Syria to prevent this, saying: "Anyone who threatens our security and our entity we will teach him a harsh lesson with all our strength, and we have a great force, and we have intelligence, and know everything that is woven to us, and we will face it strongly."

 

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After ISIS campaign, Iran-backed fighters in Iraq vow to drive out US troops

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Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) fighting ISIS across Iraq.

Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) fighting ISIS across Iraq.  (PMF Media Center)

BAGHDAD –  Now that they’ve helped vanquish the Islamic State from much of Iraq, a battle-hardened militia with close ties to Iran may be training its sights on the remaining U.S.-led coalition troops scattered across the country.

At least that’s the thinking among some in the ranks of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a roughly 100,000-thousand-member force that has fought both with and against Americans in Iraq.

“America should only be here for embassy, any military presence and we will target them,” Saif Ali, a 37-year-old member of the PMF’s Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba paramilitary -- based in the southern Iraq governorate of Basra -- told Fox News. “I fought the Americans after 2003, and the British in southern Iraq, and I am happy about that. I don't hate the American people, only hate the U.S. military, and I have killed many of them.”

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Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) fighting ISIS across Iraq.  (Courtesy PMF Media Center)

Ali is one of thousands of PMF members who also took advantage of Iran-supplied weapons and ammunition to take the lives of hundreds of U.S. troops during the insurgency that followed the invasion of Iraq.

Rayan al-Kildani, the 32-year-old leader of the PMF’s Babylon Brigades, an Iraqi Christian militia, noted that he, too, got his start fighting the Americans post-2003 -- allegedly after learning how to use weapons from action-oriented TV shows and movies. And although he has relatives in the U.S. and even visited a few years ago, he said that he threatened to attack U.S. intelligence personnel he encountered after the Mosul battle and ultimately wants to see American forces gone.

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Rayan al-Kildani, leader of the PMF's Babylon Brigade.  (Fox News/Hollie McKay)

The PMF was created soon after the June 2014 ISIS invasion in response to a fatwa, an edict issued by an Islamic leader, from Shiite cleric Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Hosseini Sistani. He called on all able-bodied males to fight the brutal Sunni insurgency. The PMF was initially an unofficial umbrella organization comprising some 40 militia groups. But, given their strong fighting skills and popularity among locals for their prominent role in combating ISIS, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi folded them into the Baghdad government’s security forces in November 2016.

Today, most PMF fighters draw salaries from the Baghdad government. But Mohand al-Eqqaby, the PMF spokesman, said at least another 50,000 unpaid fighters are on the ground and -- for now at least -- have no intention of fighting U.S. troops.

But he still wants the Americans gone.

“Our stand is clear,” Eqqaby asserted. “America was not there at the beginning of this ISIS crisis when we needed them most. We are strong now, and as long as we are fighting, Iraq does not need Americans on our land.”

TRUMP, MATTIS TURN MILITARY LOOSE ON ISIS, LEAVING TERROR CALIPHATE IN TATTERS

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Mohand al-Eqqaby, leader of the PMF's media wing.  (Fox News/Hollie McKay)

LIFE AFTER ISIS: CHRISTIANS SAY THEY CAN'T GO HOME WITHOUT INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION

The PMF has also expanded its influence beyond the battlefield and into the political sphere ahead of Iraq’s  parliamentary elections in May. Many militia leaders are expected to win crucial seats and challenge Abadi,  who is considered a reliable U.S. partner bound to keeping Iranian influence at bay.

Anxieties are growing over the PMF’s increasing influence and the notion that many take their orders not from Iraq’s commander in chief, but rather from Iran’s leadership.

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Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) fighting ISIS across Iraq.  (Courtesy PMF Media Center )

“Our goal is not to be employers of the Iraqi government, but to fight in Syria and al-Quds (Arabic for Jerusalem), and we will await orders from our religious men,” said Hashim al-Maihi, a 44-year-old former policeman who is now a leader in the "League of the Righteous People" battalion, referred to as Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, in the PMF. He said that he does not draw a Baghdad salary, and that it was his duty to fight American occupation in Iraq and later ISIS.

“My rifle is standing up and I am ready to protect any city," he said. "In my house, I raise pigeons as a symbol of peace in Iraq, but my dream is not to see Americans in Iraq.”

The PMF’s objective to disperse its military across the Middle East --as scores have defied Baghdad’s orders and gone to fight for Iranian interests alongside Syria’s army and Lebanon’s Hezbollah --is troubling to some U.S. officials.

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Mike Pompeo, CIA chief, recently wrote a letter of caution to Iran's top military man and spymaster, Qassam Soleimani, warning that the U.S will hold him and his country accountable for any "attacks on American interests" inside Iraq that stem from his influence.

Last month, CIA chief Mike Pompeo revealed he had sent a letter to Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassam Soleimani, warning that forces under Iran’s tutelage may attack U.S. troops. Pompeo added that the U.S. would hold him and his country accountable for “any attacks on American interests.”

“Now that ISIS is not much of a threat, the PMF is likely to plan attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq that would be carried out as soon as Tehran gives the orders,” surmised James Phillips, senior research fellow for Middle Eastern affairs at the Heritage Foundation. “This is a major concern, given that tensions between Iran and the U.S. are likely to grow in the future.”

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PMF fighters work alongside Iraqi Forces, prompting concern they may access U.S-issued equipment.  (Courtesy PMF Media Center)

But an American spokesperson for Operation Inherent Resolve -- this is the mission name given to the coalition tasked with defeating ISIS in Iraq and Syria -- told Fox News officials  “do not anticipate a PMF aggression toward coalition troops.”

“There are certain factions within the PMF that may cause concern, but the PMF as a whole is not considered a threat to coalition forces,” the representative noted.

While concerns have been routinely raised that the PMF is able to access U.S. weapons issued to the Iraqi Army -- including several fighters who claimed to have “borrowed” Iraqi Federal Police uniforms to participate in battles that they were prohibited from joining -- American military leaders say they continue to work with the Iraq leadership to “maintain accountability of all equipment.”

And there are at least some PMF members who vow never to fight the Americans.

“On the contrary, I stand with them because at that time we were liberated and they removed the tyranny of Saddam Hussein’s regime,” said Abbas Naji, a 23-year-old member also of the PMF’s Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq. He left the Iraqi army to join the PMF after the ISIS onslaught in 2014 – he was disgusted that members of his army “ran away” and allowed ISIS in, and had become partially blind.

“I hope that Americans stay in Iraq and we can learn from them on how make sure Iraq moves forward to be a prosperous nation," he said. "I want us to join the developed countries.”

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