The United States has already strained its relationship with Iraq in a bid to pressure Iran, but the COVID-19 pandemic presents a new factor for potential miscalculation among rivals.
The United States and Iran appear prepared for an escalation in their common battlefield of Iraq, even as all three nations battle a pandemic that experts say may serve to only inflame tensions.
Similar sentiments were expressed by an increasingly vocal chorus of influential paramilitary elements seeking to expel a U.S. presence originally tasked with defeating the Islamic State militant group . Though the U.S.-led coalition and these Iran-supported militias both battled the jihadi organization they now targeted one another in rounds of deadly violence that has rocked the already conflict-ravaged nation of Iraq.
Iraqi soldiers and a U.S. Army soldier, part of the Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve, the US-led coalition against ISIS, walk around at the K1 Air Base northwest of Kirkuk in northern Iraq before a planned U.S. pullout on March 29. The U.S. has withdrawn from some military positions throughout Iraq, citing victories over ISIS and concerns over the COVID-19 coronavirus but Washington warned of a potential escalation against militias supportive of Iran.
"By keeping up attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq, Iran-linked paramilitaries can ensure that the status of foreign forces in the country and the end of the U.S. 'occupation' stay near the top of the political agenda in Baghdad," Heller highlighted. A man representing a new Iraqi militia called Usbat al-Thayireen, or League of Revolutionaries, threaten further attacks on U.S. and its allies should they remain in Iraq a still from a video published March 17.that expressed frustration
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