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Iraq: The October Revolution of 2019 and the Iran-US Conflict
Dirk Adriaensens
1-3-20\
Iraq is home to thousands of US troops and is also home to powerful Iranian-backed militias. The fear is that Iraq could become the battleground of a war between the United States and Iran.
The revolts that have swept over Iraq since 1 October 2019 come at a critical moment of increasing tensions between Iran and the United States, both allies of the Iraqi government.
Rivalry between the US and Iran increases
On August 29, 2019, the International Crisis Group published a report calling for the US-Iran conflict not to be settled in Iraq.
“In June, various rockets were fired at American installations in Iraq, and in July-August, explosions destroyed the storage sites for weapons and a convoy of Iraqi paramilitary groups associated with Iran. These incidents helped push.....
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