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Iran-backed militias around the Middle East are intensifying attacks against Israel, the US and their allies, in retaliation for the ongoing joint US-Israeli offensive against Tehran as the war draws in new armed actors, threatening wider chaos and violence.

Israel and the US have targeted Iran’s network of militant groups, with Iraq emerging as a key front in this new and often clandestine confrontation.

Militia in Iraq have launched dozens of attacks since the war began on Saturday, targeting Israel and US bases in Jordan and Iraq itself.

In recent days, they have also targeted the infrastructure of Iranian-Kurdish opposition groups based in the self-governing Kurdish-dominated north of Iraq.

On Tuesday, in a sign of an intensifying war of proxies across the region, officials in Washington suggested they were considering mobilising the opposition Iranian Kurds, possibly for an invasion of Iran’s north-west region.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Shutting down the department whose job it is to watch for that sort of thing in the US was such an inspired idea.

/s

Seriously: I’m… honestly both in awe and aghast at how fucking blatant the regime is being about it. They’ve literally shut down the team that is in charge of addressing and categorizing security threats to the US originating from Iran immediately before starting a fucking war with Iran. Like… I just… what the actual fuck. I can’t even.

Between this and the documents leaked about their plans for the election, the intent couldn’t be more obvious if they put it on a fucking billboard. I hate that it comes down to such imbecilically stupid and petty US political bullshit like that, and that it’s killing so many people and fucking up so may other parts of the world… but seriously, I really think that was a massive part of their rationale here. It’s a distraction (operation Epstein fury), combined with creating an extremely obvious opening for an asymmetrical/terroristic threat that will be used as a justification for removing the electoral process. That’s the plan.

[–] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe they don't want to stop attacks on US soil, maybe they're trying to encourage them. Maybe that's how they'll declare a state of emergency and cancel the midterms.

That’s very literally what I’m pointing out…