BBC News: Reports " Air strikes carried out by the US-led collation on Islamic State (IS) have inflicted "significant" damage on the group's capabilities, US Secretary of State John Kerry says. "
Lets Get Real:
The article mentions that Iran has hit IS in Iraq, thus in the respect of IS, Iran and the US are on the same page, they are not working together but they have the same aims, to roll back IS in Iraq and Syria, when it comes to Syria as the article notes Iran supports Assad with arms and men, Iran has used Iraqi air space to send arms to Assad, on the ground Iran has enough men to deal with the fall of Assad should it happen. An air war by itself will not work, the planned training of a new Free Syrian Army by the US has not started, the air power of the West needs troops to take and hold land that has been left by IS. Thus one can understand why Obama is trying to get secret talks with Iran, the problem is that Tehran wants the bomb, that is the major one threat to the security of the Middle East.
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