Stories here and here. As opposed the “catch and release” policy the troops have been following up to now to avoid antagonizing Iran.
Will this help any?
What, we didn’t want to antagonize Iran?
Coulda fooled me.
I’m all for it, myself.
“Catch and release”? What, were these dolphins?
Iranians in Iraq are not entitled to any special status.
Oh, I dunno. “Dead” is not a special status?
They sound like the classic definition of enemy combatants, myself.
If Iran doesn’t want to be antagonized, they know what they ought to do.
That depends on what they’re doing. I expect that someone’ll end up bombing an Iranian boyscout troop that’s come to Tikrit to organize crossborder rugby matches; despite the safeguards Condi’s insisted upon.
Well, safeguards ought to be on the other side too. Why aren’t Iranian “den mothers” keeping their young charges out of a dangerous country?
We’re, as usual, playing right into their hands. Increasing hostility and threat levels creates the same “rally round the flag” impulse in a Persian as it does in an American. If we specificly wanted nothing more than to strenthen the position of the mullahs in Iran, this is the way to go about it.
I would have thought that obvious.
Maybe they are playing right into OUR hands, ehe? 
-XT
The question is, what are our goals vis-a-vis both Iran and Iraq, and will this further those goals?
If we want to raise tensions with Iran, or if we don’t, but are willing to accept that as a consequence of whatever difference this will make in taming Iraq, then it makes sense. Otherwise, it doesn’t.
There are clearly people in our Administration who want to pick a fight with Iran. I think they’re crazy. I also don’t see that whether or not we kill a few of these operatives will make more than the most trivial difference in the state of play in Iraq. So IMHO, this is stupid because it harms us.
What if they’re funnelling weapons to the insurgents?
Scant evidence found of Iran-Iraq arms link. Keep in mind a basic rule; when America says something, it’s probably lying.
They’d have to be some damned impressive weapons. Remember the huge munitions dump at al-Qaqaa that was a big story about a week before the 2004 election? Apparently it was just a small fraction of the munitions floating around Iraq..
How so? Please be specific. What is an enemy combatant and how do these people fit the definition?
The same thing that Americans ought to do if they don’t want to be antagonized, right?