Is Iran just waiting for the coalition troops to leave Iraq?Will they then invade to take over the oilfields?

Answer 1

likely, but i agree with Botsakis G

Answer 2

In a word; yes. What the media is not telling anyone (unless you really dig for it) is Iran is running out of oil. No, not tomorrow, or next week but their oil reserves are diminishing.

Iraq has the third largest oil reserves in OPEC. Any wonder that Iran is sitting there licking their chops?

That and the fact that Iran has a white-hot burning hatred for Iraq and the war they fought several decades ago.

Please understand, the middle eastern Muslim countries may look unified when observing from the outside. But, make no mistake, there are numerous hatreds between different nations in that region. None more so than Iran because almost all other countries can claim Arabic ancestors, but not so with Iran....they are descendants of Persians...a hatred that reaches back over several millenia.

So, yes...the Iranians are biding their time, and waiting to move into Iraq.

Answer 3

Maybe and probably.

Actually, this is exactly one of the points raised by some of the US generals who were against the invasion of Iraq in 2003. They warned that such an invasion would result in the elimination of Iraq as a vital player that kept the regional balance of power in the Middle East (the bulwark against Iranian and Syrian power influences in the region). They warned that such an invasion will result in a power vacuum in the region, where Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and others will be the eventual benefactors. Therefore, these nations will increasingly exert their own influences inside Iraq later on.

Another point these generals had warned about is the high possibility of an insurgency that may develop as an aftermath of the invasion (as what these generals learned from their own experiences of Vietnam), and what precautions the US is prepared to take to deal with this possibility.

Unfortunately, Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and others who laid the plan for the Iraqi invasion refused to listen and consider these warnings. These same generals then fell out of favor and were replaced with more pliable and amenable generals.

Those warnings have now become the realities that the US troops are now presently facing in Iraq. It is true that it's very easy to get into a mouse-trap, but very difficult to get out from it.

Answer 4

There are a number of experts on the mid-east that think this is exactly what willhappen if we leave Iraq too soon before the Iraqi government can defend themselves.





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Answer 5

Yes and No!

Answer 6

Revealation 16.13
Matt 7.15-27
What do think?