Sabereen (“Patient Ones”) News, a Telegram channel associated with the pro-Iran Shia militias in Iraq, carried footage earlier this week of what it described as “the moment that the strongholds of the terrorist Iranian Kurdish parties in the Koya district of Erbil were bombed.” The 30-second clips shows what looks like a missile flying toward a built-up structure, as small arms fire tries vainly to bring it down. The clip concludes with an explosion as the projectile slams into its target. The footage is accompanied by dramatic music.
Sabereen, which has over a million subscribers, has become somewhat frenetic in its output since the beginning of the current war. The footage of the Koya attack, in which one person died, was followed by a similarly excited depiction of what it describes as “thick plumes of smoke rising after the Fujairah oil port in the UAE was targeted.”
...This situation, in which an Iran-controlled militia structure is in political alignment with a government led by an individual whom the US president has described as a “friend,” was precarious and contradictory from the start. Now, however, with the militia structure engaged in open war on Iraqi soil against the US and its allies, it has become untenable.
...As in Lebanon, there is no chance of successful and normal development for Iraq alongside the continued presence of the Iran-aligned militias. It is one or the other. But the persistence of these frameworks is testimony to the continued durability of the Iranian model of power-by-militia throughout large parts of the Middle East, in spite of premature claims that Israel and the US had effectively defeated this model a year ago. (Ed note: This article is indeed all over the place, but the main idea is that Iraq could very well open another front against Israel. Could we be seeing Psalm 83:8, "Assyria has also joined with them..."? Just a thought.) (Read More)
...As in Lebanon, there is no chance of successful and normal development for Iraq alongside the continued presence of the Iran-aligned militias. It is one or the other. But the persistence of these frameworks is testimony to the continued durability of the Iranian model of power-by-militia throughout large parts of the Middle East, in spite of premature claims that Israel and the US had effectively defeated this model a year ago. (Ed note: This article is indeed all over the place, but the main idea is that Iraq could very well open another front against Israel. Could we be seeing Psalm 83:8, "Assyria has also joined with them..."? Just a thought.) (Read More)
