Tim Lister, CNN: A proxy war between the US and Iran just moved a step closer
The angry demonstrations at the American embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday are just the latest installment in a deepening confrontation between the US and Iran for influence in Iraq.
It's a struggle that dates back to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and the emergence of a Shia-dominated state in Iraq. But in light of the Trump administration's campaign of maximum economic pressure against Iran, it has reached a new and potentially dangerous pitch.
The President himself Tuesday accused Iran of "orchestrating an attack on the U.S. Embassy," and the White House said he would decide "how and when we respond to their escalation."
The protests followed US airstrikes on Friday against a pro-Iranian militia in Iraq -- Kata'b Hezbollah -- that the US holds responsible for rocket attacks against US facilities in Iraq. More than twenty members of the militia were reported killed. The ability of the protestors to breach the outer walls of the embassy compound and set fires suggests a degree of acquiescence on the part of Iraqi security forces.
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WNU Editor: Truth be told. This "proxy war" between the U.S. and Iran has been ongoing for a very long time. What is different now is that US sanctions are currently crippling Iran's economy, and Iran is escalating its response against these sanctions via through its proxies. But this escalation is only laying bare that these "proxies" operate at the behest of Tehran, especially in places like Iraq.
4 comments:
Iraq is a failed state. Iran is the defacto govt with their own people or loyalists in charge of key security services of the Iraqi govt. The US will never have enough troops to take Iraq back from Iran but the US can sabotage Iranian total control over the country. The US with its Sunni allies will likely aid Kurds and Sunni's in Iraq to resist Iranian domination. I see another Iraqi civil war and this time the country might just break apart.
Yes.
And yet it moves
Metamucil?
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