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Baghdad's crackdown on Iran-allied militias faces resistance By John Davison and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD, Aug 29 (Reuters) - At checkpoints leading into the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the flags of Brigade 30, a paramilitary force, still fly nearly two months after the Baghdad government ordered all militias to leave. Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi's decree gave Iran-backed paramilitary groups, which have wielded increasing power in Iraq, a month to fully integrate with the armed forces, leave checkpoints and sever ties with political groups. Brigade 30's refusal to abandon its positions on the eastern edge of Mosul -- instead it cut off roads and whipped up angry protests -- underlines Baghdad's struggle to assert its authority and raises the risk of further instability in a region marked by U.S.-Iranian rivalry. Washington warned this year it would take action against Iran-backed militias if Baghdad failed to control them, and imposed sanctions on g...

The collapse of the strategic depth of the Iranian regime in Iraq to Syria and Yemen Bahar Mehr My article first published in The Herald Report https://herald.report/collapse-of-strategic-depth-of-iran-regime-iraq-syria-yemen/ One of the indicators of the ruling regime in Iran is the interference in the countries of the region and the issuance of terrorism and the creation of insecurity in these countries with the slogan of the mullahs issued by the issuance of the revolution, which has always been mentioned by the political and military leaders of the regime as the strategic depth of the system. But developments over the past few weeks have been indicative of the collapse of the power of the clerical regime and its "mercenaries" in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. In the present article, I briefly examine the situation in these three countries and the impact on the regime's presence. Iraq After the burning of the regime's consulate in Basra by...