The Pentagon issued a clear warning last week to the Iraqi government that it must “ensure the safety” of American troops stationed in the region as U.S. bases begin being targeted again for the first time in weeks due to Washington’s unyielding support for Israel.
Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent ambassador to the UN, said last week that the U.S.’s decision to bomb Iraq and Syria was “illegitimate, illegal, unjustified, and blatantly violates the basic norms and principles of international law.”
The repeated U.S. airstrikes in Iraq “compels” Baghdad to speed up the process of terminating the mission of the American coalition in the country that has been on the ropes in recent months anyway.
The Biden administration’s latest round of bombings in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq are inadequate and did nothing to deter Iran, U.S. warmongering politicians said.
Deflecting the global condemnation of Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians, the U.S. and U.K. will continue to deflect attention by ramping up war in the Middle East.
The U.S. military last week carried out airstrikes in Iraq that supposedly targeted facilities in the country that have been used by Iranian-supported militants to attack American forces in the region.
Mohammed al-Sudani, the Iraqi prime minister, said in an interview last week that he wants to maintain good relations with the U.S., but he does not see the need for U.S. troops to remain in his country.
As we had forecast in January of 2023, one of our top trends was a Middle East Meltdown. Since the Israel War began following Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack, Israel has expanded the war as we have greatly detailed in previous Trends Journals.
The U.S. military carried out an assassination of what it identified as an Iraqi militia leader behind the attacks on uninvited American forces in the country—raising new fears of a wider Middle East conflict as Israel carries out genocide in Gaza.
Hossein Amirabdollahian, the top Iranian diplomat, warned last week that the Middle East is a tinderbox and can experience a “big explosion in the region, one not controllable by any party.”