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Iran likely responded to President Biden s strikes in Syria by again targeting American troops in Iraq, raising questions about whether targeting proxy groups, rather than Tehran s Revolutionary Guard Corps, will tip the balance of power in the region decisively toward Washington.
Ten rockets fell at the Al Asad Airbase hosting most of the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops fighting ISIS in Iraq on Wednesday. While no service members were hurt as a result of the shelling, one contractor suffered cardiac arrest while sheltering and later died. The attack, the fourth in as many weeks, may demonstrate that Iran’s support for the militias has not wavered following a Feb. 25 U.S. retaliatory strike on militia targets in neighboring Syria.
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The United Nations’ special representative of the secretary-general in Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, recently spent two days in Tehran, the capital of Iran, where she met with Ali Akbar Velayati, the senior adviser to Iran s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Was the UN finally warning Iran about its interference in Iraq?
No. The purpose of the visit was, in fact, precisely to discuss regional and political stability in Iraq, and, most importantly, Iraq s early elections, which were brought forward following protests, but delayed by four months from June to October 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. It seemed as if the UN was officially recognising Iran s guardianship of Iraq.