Rowan Scarborough at the Washington Times offers a piece on an Iranian general bragging about Killing Americans
The deputy commander of
Iran’s notorious Quds Force bragged at a recent ceremony that his operatives
have killed more Americans than U.S. troops have killed Iranian fighters.
Brig. Gen. Ismail Ghaani was
referring to Iran’s major intervention in the Iraq war to supply Shiite
militias with supercharged explosives that could penetrate U.S. armored
vehicles. The Pentagon has estimated the Quds Force, an arm of the Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps, killed 500 Americans that way.
“Americans have suffered more
losses from us then we have suffered losses from them,” Gen. Ghaani said,
according to an article by Admad Majidyar, director of the Iran Observed
Project at the Middle East Institute.
Mr. Majidyar wrote that the
boasting came at a ceremony honoring the “martyred of the defenders of shrines”
— Iran’s term for the militias it financed and trained in Iraq to fight the
Islamic State and in Syria to support President Bashar Assad.
An Iranian opposition group
has accused Iran of committing atrocities in Syria, particularly in the city of
Aleppo, where thousands died under constant attacks by Syrian, Russian and
Iranian forces.
“This, of course, is not only
a confession but also outright bragging about how the Quds Force murdered
Americans in Iraq,” said Michael Rubin, a Middle East analyst at the American
Enterprise Institute. “It was the Quds Force, after all, that smuggled in
explosively formed, armor-penetrating projectiles into Iraq for insurgents to
incorporate in improved explosive devices.
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