Iran offers to assist Nigeria Fight Boko Haram

Iran on Saturday announced plans to assist in the fight against the Islamist group, Boko Haram through the country’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Amir Hossein Abdollohian. He made the announcement while addressing the press on Saturday on the sideline of the ongoing 24th Assembly of the African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa.

According to Premium times report, Mr. Abdollohian said the activities of the Boko Haram militants and that of Al-Shabaab in the Somalia were similar to that of Al-Qaeda and the ISIS and other terrorist groups in the Middle East.

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Boko Haram in Nigeria and Al-Shabaab in the Horn of Africa are similar with Al-Qaeda and ISIS in parts of the Middle East using similar methods of operations to cause havoc to the people of the two regions. Iran is therefore willing to use its experience in dealing with terror groups to assist in combatting these groups in Africa.“

He said Iran was willing to share its experiences on terrorist activities it gathered over the years in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and other parts of the Middle East with Africa, particularly Nigeria and Somalia, as part of efforts to ensure global peace.

According to him, Iran has opened consultation with the African Union to offer its contribution to the affected countries in the coming days. Iran is attending the AU Summit as an observer with interest in bilateral and multilateral cooperation with some of the AU member states.

Yea yea nice offer, infact splendid one, that Iran will offer its assistance to help Nigeria combat the insurgents (Boko Haram).

Big Question here now is at what cost? If you are a good history student you will learn that countries don't assist other countries without expecting anything in return.

Looking at the big picture they just might be suspecting a war could ensue in Nigeria so they would want to have their men on ground to loot spoils of war or they could come in and trigger the war themselves.

In the story I gave how ammunitions are dropped to Boko haram from helicopter read here, its obvious foreign bodies are involved in this fight. Foreign bodies that want war. Well if Iran is serious about their new ambition that's helping Nigeria, they should start by identifying which country is backing Boko Haram.

Then they can talk business. Nigerians be wise, there's no such thing as free lunch.

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