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January 3, 2020

The U.S. and the Iraqi People Have a Common Enemy in Tehran

And also in Baghdad.

After launching 30 rockets at an American military base in Iraq last week, the Iran-backed Kata’ib Hizballah militia—a sister organization of Lebanese Hizballah—attempted to storm and set fire to the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. The rockets killed a U.S. contractor and wounded four soldiers. While Washington responded with force to that attack, it faces the more serious problem that Tehran now exerts sizable influence over the Iraqi government itself, to the extent that Iraqis have taken to calling the commander of Kata’ib Hizballah “the de-facto prime minister.” Michael Pregent writes:

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January 3, 2020

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