The Blaze reported, "Iran has been taking advantage of recent political unrest in Iraq by secretly stockpiling short-range missiles inside the country, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
"The buildup is part of Iran's widening effort to assert dominance in the Middle East and could pose a threat to American troops as well as allies in the region such as Israel and Saudi Arabia, U.S. sources told the Times.
"Both Iraq and Iran have been gripped by deadly protests in recent months, with more than 1,000 people reported dead as a result of protests in Iran. But public unrest has not seemed to slow Iranian leadership down from engaging in what the Times calls a "shadow war."
"Iran has been attacking countries in the Middle East of late but disguising the origin to diminish the chances of counterattacks. Iran's stockpiling of short-range missiles in Iraq also serves as a strategic deterrent. If Iran were to face an attack, it could potentially strike back with the missiles stored outside its borders."
This is what Obama purchased for $170 billion when he tried to pay off Iran.
Given that Obama spent nearly 2 decades in the church run by the anti-Semitic Jeremiah Wright, I wonder if Obama isn't secretly happy.
Iran is taking advantage of the unrest in Iraq to push for a one party dictatorship there........remove democracy and be ruled by SHIITE CLERICS..........and in many of the current protests there.........which are large .....they are saying the same thing.
The most powerful Shia Cleric in Iraq (and one of the most powerful in the world) is Ayatollah Sistani.
Like his predecessor
Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Sistani has not wholly embraced the post-Age-of-Occultation theory known as the
Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists, which was espoused and supported by the late Iranian Grand Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini and which is currently extant and enforced by the Iranian government through its own
constitution and by its supreme leader and highest religious authority Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei. Sistani's scholarly views regarding guardianship resembles Khoei's views, but differs in several respects. Additionally, the primary difference between Sistani's interpretation and the interpretation of Grand Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenei is reportedly in the range of power that a Grand Ayatollah has in ruling the
Islamic community. Sistani has publicly stated and maintained that his interpretation of the doctrine is one that grants more power to the Ayatollahs than Khoei, but less than either Khoemeini or Khamenei.
Instead of advocating for the rule by Islamic
clerics or for fundamentalist legal views, i.e. "the Quran as constitution," Sistani is said to favor a more relaxed perspective related to the provision of values and guidelines for social order (
nizam al-mujama) as being the recognized, primary role of
Islam.
Sistani has consistently avoided supporting a strict interpretation of the theory, especially of absolute guardianship, nor has he explicitly offered any substantive affirmation of the theory as a whole (including limited guardianship); thereby creating "a major
lacuna" in the "grand ideological scenario" of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Despite Sistani's disagreements with Iran's ruling clerics, he has "never tried to promote a rivalry" between his religious center of
Najaf and the Iranian center in
Qom, and has never made any comments about the confrontations between reformists and conservatives in Qom or between clerics in
Lebanon, a reflection of Sistani's reluctance to become involved in politics.