01/19, 2012
CIA operative and former Iranian Guard member discusses the Iran force U.S. troops face today.
By: Christopher Prawdzik, Editor
January – February 2012 Edition
In early 2007, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Peter Pace told Congress that Iranians were a focus of efforts in Iraq. And he noted that in the previous weeks, while trying to pursue insurgent networks in Iraq, U.S. forces had captured Iranians…
… Still, as troops face these threats, particularly in Afghanistan and Iraq, gaining an understanding of that force is an evolutionary process in which troops, no doubt, are deeply engaged.
… “I think as a whole [U.S. officials] do not understand the seriousness of the [Iranian] ideology,” Mr. Kahlili said. “We know what factions they support, how they train … but they misunderstand their goals.”
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