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August 28, 2019

To Protect Its Missile Arsenal from Israel, Iran Has Been Moving It to Iraq and Lebanon

Iraq is more complex, but Lebanon may prove more dangerous.

In recent weeks, Israel appears to have carried out at least four airstrikes on Iranian military installations in Iraq. These sites, controlled by Tehran-backed Shiite militias, are a recent addition to the Islamic Republic’s plan to deploy thousands of precision missiles—capable of striking the Jewish state from a distance of up to 600 miles—in Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria. Amos Yadlin and Ari Heistein explain:

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August 28, 2019

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  2. To Protect Its Missile Arsenal from Israel, Iran Has Been Moving It to Iraq and Lebanon

    Iraq is more complex, but Lebanon may prove more dangerous.

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  5. Lord Haw-Haw’s Lifetime of Hating the Jews, and the Jew Who Brought Him to Justice

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