Iran is increasing its influence in Iraq by relocating leaders of its proxy terrorist organizations, Hamas and the Yemeni Houthi movement, according to a report by The New York Times. This move comes shortly after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian concluded his first international visit to Iraq.
Iran is bolstering its influence in Iraq by moving in leaders of its proxy terrorist organizations Hamas and the Yemeni Houthi movement, the left-wingreported on Sunday — days after Iran ian President Masoud Pezeshkian concluded a visit to the neighboring country.a tour of Iraq his first international visit while in office. Pezeshkian departed the country on Friday after visiting Baghdad, meeting with Kurdish leadership in Erbil, and concluding with a stop in Basra.
The erosion of American influence in the country under currently President Joe Biden appears to have played a role in the terrorists moving in, as the“Some Iraqi government officials, according to two of the people who spoke to The New York Times, say privately they are not thrilled about their new guests, but did not have the power to block them,” the leftist newspaper asserted, “given the sway of the Iraqi political parties with ties to Iran.
While the Iraqi government has formally avoided loudly discussing the invasion of foreign terrorist organizations, radical Islamist lawmakers in Iraq have embraced it; the“The presence of a representative of the Houthis in Iraq is welcomed by all political parties in Iraq,” it quoted one Shiite lawmaker, Saad Al-Saadi, as saying.on Sunday that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — a U.S.
The IRGC has for years been closely linked to Iraq’s PMF. The terrorist organization has long used its Quds Force, a wing of the IRGC dedicated to foreign terrorist attacks, towith PMF jihadists, particularly for anti-American operations. The pioneer of such coordination was former Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani, whom former President Donald Trump killed in a Baghdad airstrike in January 2020.
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