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Report: Iran Approves Joint US Military Action Against ISIS September 5, 2014 Israel National News reports: “Reports on Friday indicated that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei authorized his army to coordinate joint military operations with the United States against the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). Iranian sources told BBC Persian about the development, which comes as the Sunni extremist group that has conquered vast swathes of Iraq and Syria continues to threaten the Shiite Islamic regime of Iran. According to the sources, Khamenei gave orders to his top commander to coordinate the moves, even though Iran has until now opposed US military involvement in Iraq. US airstrikes have been proving effective in the country, however, and recent airstrikes either by US and US-trained Iraqi forces on Thursday took out 18 IS leaders in Iraq, including an American jihadist leader…”
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:46:52 +0000

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