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With Strikes in Syria, Biden Confronts Iran’s Militant Network - The New York Times

With Strikes in Syria, Biden Confronts Iran’s Militant Network - The New York Times

With Strikes in Syria, Biden Confronts Iran’s Militant Network - The New York Times
Feb 26, 2021 1 min, 45 secs

Biden is likely to approach one of the greatest security concerns of American partners in the region: the network of militias that are backed by Iran and committed to subverting the interests of the United States and its allies.

United States officials said that overnight airstrikes ordered by Mr.

Biden appears to have calibrated the strikes, hoping they would cause enough damage to show that the United States would not allow rocket attacks like that on the Erbil airport in northern Iraq on Feb.

In a sign of heightened tensions between the Iraqi government and Iran-backed groups that are also part of Iraq’s security forces, Sabareen said the U.S.

In an interview with a local television network on Thursday, Iraq’s foreign minister, Fuad Hussein, said those calling themselves “the resistance” and launching rocket attacks in Iraq were no more than terrorists.

Hussein said in a recent interview with The New York Times, referring to attacks on the U.S.

Senior Iraqi officials have said they expect a more nuanced policy by the Biden administration toward Iraq.

Hussein said Baghdad had no expectations that the administration would make Iraq a foreign policy priority, but said relations would be helped by the long experience of both Mr.

Biden and key administration officials with Iraq and Iraqi politicians.

Attacks on American interests in Iraq by suspected Iran-backed militias intensified after the United States killed an Iranian general, Qassim Suleimani, and a senior Iraqi security official, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, in a drone strike in Baghdad in 2020.

Some of the Iran-backed paramilitary groups are on the Iraqi government’s payroll as part of the Iraqi security forces but are only nominally under the control of the government.

All of these groups have received at least some financing, support and weaponry from Iran over the years, and all share its ideology of “resistance,” or the struggle against Israel and United States interests in the region.

United States officials said it appeared to be affiliated with one or more of Iraq’s better-known militias, and Thursday’s strikes in Syria targeted facilities belonging to them

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