Mehdi Army fighters loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stand during a military-style training in Baghdad June 19, 2014. Credit: REUTERS/Ahmed Saad
What Happens If US Troops Run Into the Iranian Military In Iraq? -- ABC News
On the heels of President Obama’s announcement that up to 300 U.S. military advisers will be sent to Iraq to help combat the threat from a Sunni terror group, an awkward question was raised: What happens if the U.S. troops, many of them Special Forces, run into Iranian soldiers who are reportedly already in Iraq in numbers?
The question was first posed to ABC News Thursday, shortly after President Obama’s announcement, by a former member of U.S. special operations who knows some of the men on their way to Iraq. The former soldier said he was concerned the U.S. troops at the ground level may not have been given guidance from higher up for that specific possibility. White House National Security Council representatives and a Defense Department official did little to ease that concern in conversations with ABC News Thursday evening.
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My Comment: I suspect that these soldiers have already been told on what will be their rules of engagement in the event that they come face to face with Iranian forces.