March 25, 2015
Iran is leading the fight against the Islamic State. Here's what it is using...
The rise of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria has turned up the heat on Iran and its allies. The Islamic State, a radical Sunni group, is a danger to Shia Iran and its allies, whom it hates and refers to derogatorily as rafida, or “rejecters” of Islam, a status that makes them fit to be slaughtered. The Islamic State makes no idle threats—the whole world witnessed what it tried to do to Iraq’s Yazidi minority, essentially attempting genocide. When the Islamic State captured Mosul, it publicized its execution of Shia there and threatened much worse.
Iran, therefore, knows very well the fate that could await it and its proxies should they fall to the Islamic State. Most dangerously, the 1,500-kilometer border between Iraq and Iran is not fully controlled by Iraqi forces, who are otherwise occupied.
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