US: Iranian planes flying over Iraq and into Syria are "problematic" for US.
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[QUOTE]US Secretary of State John Kerry has told Iraq's PM that allowing Iranian planes to use Iraqi air space to carry weapons to Syria was "problematic".
Mr Kerry, on an unannounced trip to Iraq, held talks with Prime Minister Nouri Maliki in a bid to boost co-operation over the Syria conflict.
He said Iranian arms were sustaining Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The US has accused Iraq of turning a blind eye to the flights, which Iran claims transport only humanitarian aid.
It is 10 years since the US-led invasion of Iraq that toppled former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
The trip is Mr Kerry's first to Iraq since taking office earlier this year, and the first by an American secretary of state since 2009.
"I made very clear to the prime minister that the overflights from Iran are in fact helping to sustain President Assad and his regime," Mr Kerry told reporters.
"I made it very clear that for those of us who are engaged in an effort to see President Assad step down... anything that supports President Assad is problematic."
An unnamed US official earlier told the AP news agency that Iranian planes were flying over Iraq into Syria almost every day.
The official said Iraq had promised to inspect the flights, but only two planes had been checked since last year.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21915710[/url]
The "irony meter" broke.
So they illegally invade and fuck up Iraq over faulty intel and now they're trying to bully them. The Prime Minister should tell Kerry to shove it up his ass.
[QUOTE=archangel125;40029050]So they illegally invade and fuck up Iraq over faulty intel and now they're trying to bully them. The Prime Minister should tell Kerry to shove it up his ass.[/QUOTE]
Iraq is not entitled to have independent foreign policy you fool...
[QUOTE=laserguided;40029109]Iraq is not entitled to have independent foreign policy you fool...[/QUOTE]
What, because of the first Gulf War?
[QUOTE=laserguided;40029109]Iraq is not entitled to have independent foreign policy you fool...[/QUOTE]
the only people worthy of independent foreign policy are the ones that independently choose to follow us orders.
Well isn't that too bad. I wonder what anybody is going to do about it.
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