How US-Iran Tensions could Disrupt Iraq’s Peace

By Ranj Alaadin, Brookings Institution.

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How US-Iran tensions could disrupt Iraq’s fragile peace

Tensions between the United States and Iran are escalating rapidly, particularly since U.S. warships were dispatched in response to reported threats against U.S. forces in Iraq from Iran and its proxies.

The U.S. has withdrawn all non-emergency embassy staff from Iraq and, on Monday, a mortar attack by Iran’s proxies in Baghdad, striking in the vicinity of the U.S. embassy, raised the prospects of a conflict on Iraqi soil even further.

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(Source: Brookings Institution)

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