IRINN Satellite TV Video of US Forces, with Announcer Persian Commentary:

On 21 January Iranian government satellite TV (IRINN) broadcast a video collage of US forces in Iraq and made the following commentary:

"The existing realities show that despite the fact that the US government is trying to strengthen its position and overcome the defeat of its army by intensifying military operations in Iraq, the recent killing of about 20 US soldiers and the wounding of a number of other occupation forces indicate that the evolving Iraq crisis is getting the US deeper than ever into a quagmire.

"Meanwhile the Americans are trying to prevent disclosure of the number of US casualties by censoring news and information. Yet the limited published statistics on US casualites prove that the American occupying government in Iraq is facing profound difficulties, and increasing the number of military forces cannot reduce them.

"In studying the developments related to the status and position of America's occupying government in Iraq, one can conclude that America's problem in Iraq is related more to the software than to the hardware. In other words in Iraq America is facing a problem with the people of Iraq, and as the people of Iraq have proven in the last four years or so, they are not willing to submit to American occupation and domination.

"Therefore the US government's strategy pf sending military forces and increasing the pressure on the government and people Of Iraq will have no result other than to increase the Iraqi nation's resistance to the occupying government, and it will also increase casualties among the occupying forces."