Iran has proxies in Gaza with Hamas, Lebanon with Hezbollah, and Yemen with the Houthis. They also have a growing, dangerous threat from a new proxy in Iraq. According to The Wall Street Journal, the militias are responsible for drone attacks on the Kuwaiti consulate in Basra. They also attacked the Emirati consulate in Iraq’s Kurdistan region.
“Since the start of the conflict, the Kurdistan region has been consistently attacked externally by Iran and internally by the Iranian-backed militias,” Treefa Aziz, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Washington representative, told me in an interview earlier this month. Aziz said that the Kurdistan region has absorbed more than 700 attacks from drones, missiles, mortars, and rockets, resulting in the deaths of 16 people and over 90 serious injuries.
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