{"id":10249,"date":"2014-08-22T21:08:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=10249"},"modified":"2014-08-25T14:44:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T14:44:32","slug":"isis-threat-cameron-wants-an-alliance-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/isis-threat-cameron-wants-an-alliance-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS threat: Cameron wants an alliance with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Britain must prepare to ally itself with Iran to combat the \u201cshared threat\u201d of extremists in Iraq and Syria who want to create \u201ca terrorist state\u201d that could extend to \u201cthe shores of the Mediterranean,\u201d David Cameron has said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Suggesting that it was now in the UK\u2019s national interest to put aside decades of enmity with Tehran, the PM called on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to \u201cengage with the international community\u201d in combating ISIS.<\/p>\n

Mr Cameron even hinted UK opposition to the regime of President Assad in Syria could be tempered by the threat from ISIS. He warned Islamic fighters had the \u201cancient city of Aleppo firmly within its sights\u201d, where Syrian government forces are fighting.<\/p>\n

The new position reflects a growing realisation that US and British opposition to Assad and support for Sunni rebels in Syria have allowed Isis to grow in power and create what Mr Cameron described as a \u201cso-called caliphate\u201d across large swathes of Syria and Northern Iraq. But it will cause deep anger in Israel that still believed the Iranian regime is intent upon its destruction and is misleading the West promises of a deal on its nuclear programme.<\/p>\n

In an article for the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Cameron wrote that Britain was in the midst of a \u201cgenerational struggle\u201d that would last \u201cfor the rest of my political lifetime\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlready IS [Isis] controls not just thousands of minds, but thousands of square miles of territory… It makes no secret of its expansionist aims… And it boasts of its designs on Jordan and Lebanon, and right up to the Turkish border. If it succeeds, we would be facing a terrorist state on the shores of the Mediterranean and bordering a NATO member. This is a clear danger to Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued to rule out a greater role for UK troops in Iraq, saying that the effort must be put into strengthening Kurdish and Iraqi forces.<\/p>\n

Mr Cameron\u2019s policy faced criticism from the Church of England, which accused the Government of appearing to have no \u201ccoherent or comprehensive approach\u201d to tackling Islamic extremism.<\/p>\n

In a strongly worded attack \u2013 backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury \u2013 the Bishop of Leeds said \u201cmany\u201d top clergy were seriously concerned.<\/p>\n

The Rt Rev Nicholas Baines has written to the PM, questioning whether there is any long-term strategy and criticising a \u201cgrowing silence\u201d over the fate of the plight of persecuted Christians.<\/p>\n

Writing inThe Independent on Sunday<\/em>, General Sir Richard Shirreff, former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, said: \u201cThis unhappy saga highlights all too graphically the collective loss of nerve in matters of defence and security, increasingly the defining characteristic of this government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe consequence has been knee-jerk reactions dictated by events, whether last year’s abortive attempt to launch Tomahawk missiles at Syria, or last week’s response to events in northern Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: The Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Britain must prepare to ally itself with Iran to combat the \u201cshared threat\u201d of extremists in Iraq and Syria who want to create \u201ca terrorist state\u201d that could extend to \u201cthe shores of the Mediterranean,\u201d David Cameron has said. Suggesting that it was now in the UK\u2019s national interest to put aside decades of enmity …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1236,1233,1234,1423,50,905,136,349,210,1424,92,130,1235,163,278,314],"class_list":["post-10249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research","tag-alliance","tag-britian","tag-cameron","tag-iran","tag-iraq-2","tag-isis","tag-israel","tag-middle-east-2","tag-rouhani","tag-syria","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists","tag-threat","tag-ticker","tag-uk","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10255,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions\/10255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}