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Hala Jaber, Baghdad Published: 15 June 2014
Iran is helping to organise the fightback against insurgents (Hawre Khalid/Metrography)
Iran has taken command of Iraq’s crumbling armed forces to help organise the fightback against hardline militants who have seized large swathes of the country.
Major-General Qassem Suleimani, the leader of Iran’s elite Quds force, is now running operations, a top Iraqi official revealed yesterday.
Suleimani, who travelled to Baghdad last week with 67 of his top advisers, “is in charge of arming, deploying forces, weaponry and planning the battles”, the source said. “He also brought light and medium weapons, rockets, heavy machineguns and lots of ammunition.”
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Der Wahrheitsgehalt dieser Nachricht ist fraglich, daher packe ich es mal hier rein.