Well, I guess this finally makes you guys even for 1979, right? Can you just make up and be friends now?
Now all that’s needed to round it off is for Iran to send in rescue helicopters that crash into each other and blow up…
US forces have stormed an Iranian consulate in the northern Iraqi town of Irbil and seized five members of staff.
The troops raided the building at about 0300, taking away computers and papers, according to Kurdish media and senior local officials.
The US military had no immediate comment on the raid, which comes amid high tension between Iran and the US.
The Bush administration accuses Iran of helping fuel violence in Iraq, as well as trying to develop nuclear weapons.
Iran strenuously denies both charges, countering that US military involvement in the Middle East endangers the whole region.
A local TV station said Kurdish security forces had taken over the building after the Americans had left.
Irbil lies in Iraq’s Kurdish-controlled north, about 350 kilometres (220 miles) from the capital Baghdad.
Reports say the Iranian consulate there was set up last year under an agreement with the Kurdish regional government to facilitate cross-border visits.
Iranian media said the country’s embassy in Baghdad had sent a letter of protest about the raid to the Iraqi foreign ministry.
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Now all that's needed to round it off is for Iran to send in rescue helicopters that crash into each other and blow up......
As if their underperforming, outdated helicopters would make it across the border before being blown out of the sky...
If this action will in any way stop Iran from fueling the sectarian violence in Iran, good. Storm another consulate.
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Did US army raid the consulates of 'some countries' whose under-cover military personnel were caught yellow/orange/red-handed before civil war actually started? I want to see what actions were carried out then.
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no diplomatic immunity
note added- guys, I was not questioning the move, I was suggesting that there should be no diplomatic immunity for these guys. I can bet they are interering in Iraq and fanning the sectarian violence, Iran has done it before in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and there is no way that they are not doing it in Iraq.
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LoL those barbarians are getting pretty desperate and this is their way of showing it. Its funny cuz if they want friends in iraq, they’re going the wrong way about it. Its like hitting you’re foot with a sledge hammer. b’jeezus they’re nutcases!
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you dont have to be so harsh on the iranians, but I agree - if they have their diplomats engage in activities that are undermining the lives of avg Iraqis that does show desperation on their part. This is the wrong way of going about it to make friends in Iraq and they should not interfere and fan the sectarian violence.
but I agree they are nutcases, they need to just line up and shoot that council of ayotollahs that have turned the great country of Iran into the repressive, idiotic place that it is now.
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I don’t think the Iranians are barbarians as much as they are power hungry extremists (i.e. nut cases) who want to install they ayatollahology throughout the region. The way they are instigating these sectarian killings are shameless and pathetic. And to pretend to be ruling by the laws of God.
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Rich coming from the citizen of a country which invades and occupies countries to secure their oil supplies. Please no hiding behind liberation nonsense, as if you people cared about Iraqis, if you did 600k wouldn’t be dead. You are the occupiers and it was **your **responsiblity to ensure law and order there which you have failed to do, so why blame others.
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but I agree theyare nutcases, they need to just line up and shoot that council of ayotollahs that have turned the great country of Iran into the repressive, idiotic place that it is now.
pir saab you must be a fake pir. aside from every accusation in the book of spin, what has iran actually done? our minister was over in tehran other day pleading for iran to backdown on N issue. the minister was sincere in his concern for iran. the govt/people of pak wish iran all the best.
a fake pir:) should know iran has to get whatever potential support in iraq they can get for the forthcoming attack on them. saddam was against them and so is al-q sunni mentallity, which also irks the general shias in iraq. the 'body' to blame is whoever was planting them bombs killing shias for so long before the tolerance broke. truth is nobody can say iran or US is def involved in sectarian violence. what we can say is iran is wanted in bad light. we are sunni and if we continue to take-in every bit of garbage spin thrown in we will support/disaprove less of any attack on iran. going by this theory the attack on iran is going to be bloody as it'll be so isolated and demonised.
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O yaar I have never really claimed to be anything else but a fake pir.
the wisdom in my words may be too much for some to understand, there are layers upon layers of complexities, innuendos, sarcasm, hints, that are only meant for a select few...the chosen one to understand, and that they do. my posts are not always for mass consumption.
PS: when u say 'we' are sunni I hope u are not including me in that group. I am niether a sunni, nor a shia, nor an ahemdi, nor a sufi. I am a muslim. thats it
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to make 'we' the rest of the muslim world dislike them! and to heap more pressure on their N ambitions and support major sanctions/action action against them
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its important to see iran come through this period, as faillure to do so would mean a setback to the security of pakistan, for the political ambition of every muslim nation and to reduce the power of any extremists that may actually exist
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dont see any gullible people in this thread, but since it is an open question that would otherwise go unanswered I hereby nominate myself as honorary gullibale and answer the question.
their motives? hmmm..remind me, what were their motives in Afghanistan and Pakistan? then I may be better able to answer, you know being gullible and all.
b’jeezus they’re nutcases! 
