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Iran Rev Guards charge Pakistan soft on terror!

Get this: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are angry at Pakistan for arresting and then quickly releasing a leader of the anti-Tehran Sunni rebels, Dawn of Pakistan reports.  Some 42 people died last month in a bombing the rebel group claimed to have perpetrated. “How is it possible that this guy can move freely [unless he is] ...

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
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Get this: Iran's Revolutionary Guards are angry at Pakistan for arresting and then quickly releasing a leader of the anti-Tehran Sunni rebels, Dawn of Pakistan reports. 

Get this: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are angry at Pakistan for arresting and then quickly releasing a leader of the anti-Tehran Sunni rebels, Dawn of Pakistan reports. 

Some 42 people died last month in a bombing the rebel group claimed to have perpetrated. “How is it possible that this guy can move freely [unless he is] under the protection of the intelligence services?” righteously inquires the  most honorable Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the no. 2 guy in the Guards. (What’s the no. 3 guy, Col. Pepperoni?)

It is a little odd to see both the United States and Iran cranky with Pakistan over related issues of harboring bad actors. Maybe Washington, Tehran and Delhi can form an anti-ISI alliance? I admit to just sitting back and enjoying this. OK, I feel a twinge of guilt. But just a twinge. 

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Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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