Information: Iran has secret cells in Iraq
In order to strike against the Gulf countries, Iran took help from Iraqi militias.
Secret cells in Iraq have led several drone attacks, according to information to Reuters.
– This reflects Iran's need to save its resources, an expert tells the news agency.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard has built several new secret cells in Iraq to attack US military bases in neighboring countries, Reuters reports, citing several Iraqi sources.
At least seven drone attacks were carried out from three or four cells between April 20 and May 17, according to the information. Targets were desert areas in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The cells are said to have consisted of around ten Iraqi Shiite elite soldiers. Several of them are said to have been recruited from the Islamic Resistance Movement in Iraq, which is strongly linked to Iran.
“Ideologically convinced”
People belonging to the militia group have previously claimed responsibility for a series of attacks – but a coordinated mobilization has not been reported before, according to Reuters.
Several Shiite factions in Iraq have previously announced that they are ready to disarm, after repeated warnings from the United States. This has spurred Iran to establish new groups, according to Jasim al-Bahadli, a former Iraqi army general.
“The newer groups established by the Revolutionary Guard appear to be smaller, more ideologically convinced and more tightly controlled. This reflects Iran’s need to conserve its resources at a time of economic pressure,” al-Bahadli told Reuters.
Iranian support for Iraqi groups is not addressed in the US-Iran agreement or in the ongoing peace talks, according to the sources.
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