"If the Iraqis ask, we will supply them with equipment and advice, but they have no need of manpower," Hejazi was cited by the official IRNA news agency as saying.
Hejazi said there had not been any request from Iraq to "carry out joint operations against the 'takfir
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
i' terrorists," a term used to describe al-Qaeda.
Iraqi forces are preparing a major attack to retake the city of Fallujah,
...
the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called
Center of Prosperityor
a really nice place to raise your kids...
which has been taken over by fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which is also a major force in the rebellion against
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
in neighboring Syria.
Both Iran and Iraq are predominantly Shiite Mohammedan nations, and their governments have strengthened political and economic ties in recent years.
Iran is also a key ally of the Assad regime and acknowledges having sent what it calls "military advisers" to Syria, although there are claims it also has combatants there.
Al-Qaeda is an hard boy Sunni Mohammedan organization that views Shiites as apostates.