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Following attacks, Iraqi Prime Minister accuses Israel of wanting war

After a half-dozen IDF attacks on Iranian targets in Iraq with officials blaming it on anything except the ‘Zionist entity’, an Iraqi official has accused Israel of ‘hostile activity on its soil’ for the first time since the Israeli airstrike on Iraq’s nuclear reactor in June 1981.

By Edy Cohen

 

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abd al-Mehdi said that Israel was behind recent attacks on targets in his country. This came after the Iraqi Interior Ministry investigated the incident and determined that the Jewish state had been involved in at least half-a-dozen such strikes.

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Report: US won’t stop Israel from attacking Iranian targets in Iraq

Russia Today reports US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo telling the Iraqi PM that the US will not prevent Israel’s Air Force from attacking Iranian targets in Iraq.

By Elad Benari

 

The United States has told Iraq that it will not intervene if Israel attacks Iranian targets in the country, Russia Today’s Arabic-language news service reported on Thursday.

The network, which cited an unnamed Iraqi government official, said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo conveyed the message during his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi in Baghdad last week.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.

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