7.20.2013 | (Voice of Iraq) -  Add a comment - for months tried Obama administration and failed to convince Iraq to stop flights Iran passing through its airspace to Syria, which the United States believes that corridor helps outweigh the regular army Syrian rebels. Despite the confirmation of U.S. officials on the existence of bridges aerial Iranian supply artery Life embarrassment to the Assad regime, officials in Iraq say they can not stop military supplies Iran; Air Force Iraq is very weak and can not do so. today in the new Iraqi ambassador to the United States plan to treat the diplomatic impasse boils down to the principle of "Help me to help you." In an interview last Wednesday, the ambassador said Luqman Feily he is busy trying to convince U.S. officials that in the case of agreeing to support the air defenses of Iraq, it will improve the ability of Iraq to prevent the passage of weapons coming from Iran. says Philly "is not for us complete control over our airspace not امتلاكنا air defense system integrated, and this is the reason my conversations with Alcapittal Hill and with the State Department and the Pentagon, where previously asked this system in addition to Apache helicopters worth $ 10 billion, and this will benefit the United States. " We have grown relations between Iran and Iraq in recent years cause concern to American decision-makers. In spite of the billions of dollars the U.S. to the Iraqi government every year, the ethnic relations and economic and regional between Iran and Iraq has made the Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ally can not be predicted. in the case of Syria, even the best efforts of the Minister of Foreign Affairs John Kerry has failed to engage in fruit. Kerry said, speaking of his negotiations with al-Maliki in the month of March, "said the prime minister that overflights coming from Iran is in fact to help keep Assad in power." But with the reason behind Iraq's request for the transaction is not surprising, the military experts Americans admit Ban legitimate in Feily point, which is that Iraq is not able to stop arms shipments now even if he wanted to. and the Iraqi air force is composed of some reconnaissance aircraft and light transport aircraft, but to possess what is called the capacity air defense of confrontation and fixed-wing. Currently there is an agreement for the United States to provide Iraq aircraft F-16s, but they have not received yet. says Chris Harmer, a senior analyst Maritime Studies Institute of hostilities "that Iraq's position in terms of not having air defense system integrated and fighter planes fixed wing and attack helicopters Aircraft abortion Trans-Iranian airspace, is the position technically true. " He adds Hammer "All that is owned by Iraq now is radars over Joey civil, Iraqis can see aircraft Iranian cross but do not have the military capability to force it to land and undergo inspection." and seeks Feily to begin to clarify his plan administrators to Americans; it is supposed to present Ambassador enthusiast Day Thursday presented his credentials to President Barack Obama officially give him permission to meet with Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. Says Feily "I do not see any benefit for the United States not to proceed in this matter." However, it is the U.S. side is still on the table questions about how to use Iraq to the newly established air power in the case of the approval of the United States on this deal. He says Stephen يكين Fellow of the Institute Hummer and research analyst in which "the Iraqi government in a difficult situation; she wanted and needed to maintain good relations with Washington and Tehran at the same time, Iraq could not engage in a confrontation with Iran and even has the ability to monitor its airspace, I expect that the parties reach an understanding practical allow Iran to constantly transfer of weapons to Assad without making Iraqi cooperation is visible. " It is natural that this is just a hunch, but there as another must to put it in our calculations outside the issue of civil war, Syrian, namely the Kurds; Over the years The head of the Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani used F-16s as an important theme of the talks, "We have repeatedly Barzani said that the Kurds are afraid of al-Maliki to use advanced modern air force against them." All of these factors greatly overshadow the decision of the United States in the delivery of F-16s Iraq's what creates a number of interesting moves. Says يكين "The waiting F-16s will help the Iraqi government where they can deny their ability to prevent trips Iran and blames it on the United States, which maintains a kind of neutrality is stable." But Feily insists that the Iraqi government play correctly and it is cooperating with the Obama administration by all means possible. Says Feily "We have asked the Iranians not to use our corridor, we do not want to be a conduit for the transfer of arms to Syria, but we do not have the ability to stop it." : Foreign Policy |
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